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Learning In and Out of the Classroom

Wednesday class:

Children spent a lot of time on fine motor development today as they poured, scooped, and squeezed. These simple activities help children to develop their fine motor and concentration skills. These activities strengthen their muscles, increase precision, support hand-eye coordination and concentration.



 

Friday class:

We had a lot of fun on our first visit to the Richmond Food Bank. We feel very fortunate that we had the opportunity to volunteer our services. We feel it is important for our children to learn how to care for others in their community and lend a helping hand when they are able.

We began with a tour of the facility, led by the Volunteer Coordinator, Keith Yee. We looked at the groceries, household products, containers, other volunteers, organization procedures and the forklift. We all went into the huge refrigerator- very exciting indeed! We then divided into 3 groups. Two groups counted out packages of diapers and the other group assembled snack bags for children. The children worked well overall- focused for about 15-20 minutes straight! We are proud of them.

When asked what they liked best about the food bank the following comments were made:

Zev: I like the food
Niko:Sorting diapers
Wayne: Liked making snack bags
Nicolas: Sorting diapers but they were yucky
Cole: Filling bags and having muffins
Colin: Sorting diapers. Clean ones ( btw, they were ALL clean of course!)
Alexa: Sorting diapers and counting
Sidney: When I was in the fridge I was so cold, freezing cold
Chloe: When I carried the apple juice, the applesauce and the 2 granola bars ( these were the components for the snack bags)
Emily: Seeing the fridge
Kayla: Sorting diapers
Cash: Counting diapers and putting them into a bag
Brooke: I like going in the refrigerator

It was such a beautiful day so we went to Terra Nova  for lunch, gardening, and storytelling. After lunch, we picked our drying beans. These will be dried on their stalks, the beans will be threshed and then we will use them in a cooking project. Here are some of our beans.



 We used our spades and turned the soil....



Digging with our superhero gloves on (yes, again!)

Then into the field for storytelling....a busy and productive Friday!

Emily

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