Princess did the 100 board for the first time today...

Practical life activities build concentration, help develop fine motor skills, and give young children the skills they need to become independent.

This beautiful Barred Owl spent the day outside the preschool.....

What a great week, lots of new presentations, lots of great work, and best of all lots of smiles, hugs and laughter.

Princess exploring with Colour Box 3....Mouse watching so quietly, she is not quite ready for this work but her "absorbent mind" is taking it all in

Working with the N. America map.....

Peanut presenting a language lesson to Mouse....

Mouse mastered the scissors this week....

We get outside twice each day.....fresh air, exercise and creative play so important for healthy bodies and minds. Mouse having "soup night", Iish and Princess being dragons in their den, and Iish being a Tiger.

Just a few of the faces that I love to see every week.....I have the best job in the world!

Exploring with knobless cylinders and pattern cards

Tiger preparing an apple to share with his classmates.

On Friday mornings we make hummus for our morning snack....

Chinese calligraphy with a quill, not traditional but a fun idea

Peeling our hard-boiled eggs for morning snack...

We made chocolate dipped strawberries, heart shaped bread with cream cheese and homemade rhubarb jam and raspberry Jello Jigglers...

Our Valentine's Teddy Bear Tea Party......

Learning the countries of Asia....

Merlin exploring with the number rods.....

Pouring tea work......

The children use these Willow Pattern plates for snack every day. They were so surprised to find out there is a story hidden in the pictures on the plates.

All set up to make Valentine's cards

Tiger working on Chinese Calligraphy....

Merlin working with tanagrams...

Pancakes for lunch at Tree House today as we celebrate Shrove Tuesday

We are learning about Asia ......

Working with the Animals of Asia cards together....

Tank working with his vocabulary cards....

This is one of Mouse's favourite choices for work....

Our amaryllis this year has ten blooms.....so beautiful in our classroom

Mouse fitting the knobless cylinders into the cylinder block

Perfect concentration......

Tiger working so quietly this afternoon.....using the pink tower and brown stair extension cards

We made a big Chinese Dragon.....

Snowboarding has been very popular this week...

We made Chicken and Broccoli stir fry for lunch and tried out some chopsticks....

Painting with yarn is our art project for the week. The children have created some very attractive works with this method.

Tiger and Merlin both love the Mystery Number Game..

Making continent maps.....

Princess, Tiger and Merlin have all learned to use the Wedgit pattern cards. They are working their way through level A.