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Ms.Lyss made us a sensory bin of red and green rice with a hint of mint scent.</div>
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As one child played with it, lots of rice escaped the bin and landed on the floor.</div>
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I encouraged the child to get one of our little brooms to sweep up his mess.</div>
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As he began to sweep, another child noticed him and went to get another mini broom.</div>
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"I help. I sweep too" he stated.</div>
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Although they did not actually clean up the whole mess, </div>
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they showed wonderful team work and responsibility.</div>
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Lately some of our older children have been talking about putting each other in jail, and their teachers too. (in good humour) </div>
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We play this game in the gym, large muscle room, and outside usually as a chase and catch game</div>
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but one day some of them created a very intricate jail out of dominoes within our room.</div>
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"Mrs.Thiele get in!"</div>
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At times building this was very frustrating as dominoes can be tricky to stand and even worse when you have many children moving through the room. It took a lot of concentration, team work, and the ability to share ideas to get this jail completed. </div>
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This week we all got together and celebrated the birth of our saviour, Jesus Christ with a Christmas Potluck.</div>
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We had 60 people come out to our potluck!</div>
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Mr.Blatz was able to join us too, he cooked chicken on the BBQ for us in the snow.</div>
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Lots of delicious food.</div>
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The children practiced really hard, and learnt two new songs to sing in front of their parents.</div>
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"This little light of mine"</div>
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We had special guests from West End Christian Community. </div>
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Joel and Danielle led us in Worship.</div>
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And Pastor Rob gave a message helping us to reflect on what Christmas is truly about.</div>
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All in all it was a fabulous night.</div>
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Thanks to everyone who came, helped out and made our evening such a great success.</div>
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Merry Christmas everyone!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01682825465019796465noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-859899995157828877.post-88185265294044695862016-11-23T12:01:00.001-08:002016-11-23T12:06:55.514-08:00Sliding aroundIt seems as though our fresh fallen snow is already melting. One of our teachers piled snow against the big spool which let us enjoy it for another day. <br>
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All three of us had to work together to get the sled moving.</div>
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"Living on the edge."</div>
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"Look how far I went. I hit the fence!"</div>
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At first the children seemed to paint with the colors as they were...<br />
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Then the mixing began, carefully creating colors and asking each other which colors to mix to make other colors.</div>
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In preschool we want children to explore the materials we put out. We don't worry about an end product because at this point in development children benefit from using the materials as they see fit. It is more important to first learn the properties of paint and enjoy how its squishy, how it moves across the page, and how the colors pop out on the plain paper.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01682825465019796465noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-859899995157828877.post-81635208450795305142016-11-15T12:31:00.001-08:002016-11-15T12:31:13.903-08:00It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...We began to pull out our Christmas decorations today...<br />
The children were over the roof excited to help decorate the room.<br />
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We started by opening these new nativity scene, which was a great opportunity for Mr.Tooshkenig to tell the children the Christmas story.<br />
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I think someone forgot to tell these girls that we were decorating the room... not ourselves! </div>
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Here's a little reminder from Mr.Tooshkenig on how NOT to store your Christmas decorations unless you enjoy lots and lots of untangling! :)</div>
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The children were so proud to decorate and are now asking when we can go get a Christmas tree, we will have to wait a little though as I don't believe the stores have the real ones yet. Some children thought we could cut one of the trees in Adventure Playground down but we'll have to discourage that!</div>
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They wanted to build a fort. At first the fort was not working because every time they pulled on one side the other side would fall.<br />
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We then laid out all of our blankets on top of each other trying to measure which one was the biggest.<br />
"I think the green ones bigger cause look" pointing to the corners sticking out from under another blanket.<br />
After all our measuring we realized none of the blankets would be big enough for their idea. Luckily an old curtain that we store away was more than big enough. <br />
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We used clothes pins to hold up the blankets.</div>
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More blankets were added as carpets, and door ways. Pillows were added for comfort and of course the baby dolls made their way into the fort as well. </div>
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This fort building project allowed us to share our ideas, work on cooperation, practice our awareness of sizes and measuring all while playing!</div>
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We are thankful for all the sacrifices that have been made so that we are able to live in a safe, and peaceful country. <br />
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<strong> We are the dead: Short days ago,<br /> We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,<br /> Loved and were loved: and now we lie<br /> In Flanders fields! </strong><br />
<strong> Take up our quarrel with the foe<br /> To you, from failing hands, we throw<br /> The torch: be yours to hold it high<br /> If ye break faith with us who die,<br /> We shall not sleep, though poppies grow<br /> In Flanders fields</strong><br />
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Thanks to everyone who brought snack items to our potluck. After snack we played "hide the pumpkin" and "pumpkin ring toss" with Ms.Lyss</div>
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I think the kids are pretty excited about it too. They helped us find a nice piece of wood for our birthday wall. <br>
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So out to the field we went to try to sustain our Adventure Playground's beauty.<br />
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Out in the field many children were playing a game of running and chase. Sometimes the children were the big bad wolf, or monster and sometimes the teacher was. Thanks Ms.Okolo for having so much energy to chase us around :)<br />
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We ate some as they were but since we had so many I thought we should bake with them. To be completely honest baking is not my favorite thing but the children love it, and there are so many developmental benefits to it so this is what we did. <br />
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First we peeled the carrots, and used the peelers to shred the carrots into tiny pieces.<br />
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Next we measured out our dry and wet ingredients into two separate bowls. Then mixed them together. It took a lot of team work and patience as we went around the table and took turns adding ingredients. Before putting them in the oven we scooped out the batter into muffin tins.<br />
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Thank you to all the families who were able to contribute to our pot luck :)<br />
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Overall a busy but wonderful week :)</div>
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We spent some of the morning on Ground Zero. <br />
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Jumping up and down on the bouncer.</div>
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Visiting with Mrs.Cruz</div>
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Spotting a silly squirrel way up in the tree</div>
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Making plans with friends to look for treasures, and set traps to catch any thieves or teachers. </div>
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Today from a distance I saw one child find sunglasses that belonged to another child. The child picked up the glasses and then sought out the child the glasses belonged to and returned them saying:<br>
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</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01682825465019796465noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-859899995157828877.post-25101036400550485632016-09-26T12:09:00.000-07:002016-09-26T12:22:38.699-07:00There's a storm a brewing<div><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">We had a fire drill this morning!</span></div>
For some children it was their first time hearing the buzzer and having to leave the yard in a rushed manner. This can be a little scary for children when they're not sure what is going on, everyone is moving, and teachers are calling out directions. After we were told it was safe to come back I observed some intesting play happening in the little house.<br>
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"Quick, quick!"<br>
"There's a storm coming!"<br>
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The children looked genuinely concerned as they rushed each other into the little house, even I was told I must come in the house to stay safe. <div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-eK0-hDtseFg/V-lznpAzXpI/AAAAAAAAFNI/WhepWO0mu3Y/s640/blogger-image--1075270919.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-eK0-hDtseFg/V-lznpAzXpI/AAAAAAAAFNI/WhepWO0mu3Y/s640/blogger-image--1075270919.jpg"></a></div>
"Close the door!"<br>
"There's the storm, see the clouds?"</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-B2RMYfvG3DA/V-lzmT8NDzI/AAAAAAAAFNE/dCnMGN4zbzg/s640/blogger-image--1694301345.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-B2RMYfvG3DA/V-lzmT8NDzI/AAAAAAAAFNE/dCnMGN4zbzg/s640/blogger-image--1694301345.jpg"></a></div></div></div>
Then one child left the house saying:<br>
"It's okay, I'll get the storm to stop"<br>
Soon the child returned saying<br>
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The children continued to repeat this play, rushing into the house then having one or two brave children go out to stop the storm.<br>
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Play for children is a very real event. Often we see children acting out complex ideas through play to better their understanding of these concepts. It is very possible that some of these children were playing out the fear that they felt during the fire drill, working through that fear and eventually feeling comfortable enough to be brave and say "it's okay it's safe now."<br>
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They're the three main things the XP children explored today!<br />
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Here they built roads, and garages for their cars. This took a lot of cooperation and careful movements to ensure the clocks would not fall.</div>
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These models had the walk down with just enough sass to go with it! Mr.Tooshkenig even took a turn when some children were feeling shy.</div>
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Magnets are wonderful and this metal door has lots of space for them. We practiced our letter and color recognition through this play.</div>
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