Skip to main content

Tis The Season!!! 3 year old and 4 year old classes

At the preschool we are feeling the holiday season is upon us with all the fun activities the children have been engaged in this month, from making latkes, to decorating cookies with our big buddies, to playing in the snow. After all those rainy days, the preschoolers were delighted to see the snow. On the snowy days we headed out to the turf to play in the snow. I was surprised to see most of the children just wanted to make foot tracks and seemed to enjoy looking at each others foot tracks, jumping over tracks or seeing where the tracks would take them and even guessing whose tracks the children saw.

Children strengthen their gross motor skills walking, running in the snow, learning how to balance their bodies on a slippery surface when walking in the snow. Children also learn to tightly pack snow, to build things. These are just a few of the many benefits of the snow season.

  


The children are making a decision whether they are going to step into this puddle without boots

 


Kaitlyn is tempted to put her feet into the big puddle but does not want to get her runner wet!!! I wonder what decision she will make.


Kaitlyn finds a stick and sits at the end of the puddle to play in it


Jeremiah jumps into the puddle.


Isabelle and Kaitlyn are putting the potatoes in the grater to make our latkes.

 
Elliot and Fraser are watching Sue frying potato latkes   



 
Lucas decorating his snowman cookie with his big buddy.

 
Elliot begins by icing the snowman cookie first.

 
Ruka is decorating her cookie along side big buddy Megan.


Koen proudly says "look Jess I put my fingers in my mittens all by myself "

 
 
Making tracks in the snow

 
Ruka rolls the snow to make a snowman

 
We made lots of different footprints guessing whose they could be.

 
Playing with our big buddies in the snow.

 
Elliot completes her family gift, ready to wrap.

 
Have a wonderful relaxing winter break with family and friends. 


Until next time

Jess

 



Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Social Responsibility: Down to the Core

Social responsibility- a term that has now become quite common in the field of education and has the potential to lose its meaning if we are not careful. As an early childhood educator, I have always placed great importance on the need to develop this way of thinking in young children. It is for this reason that we engage in activities that benefit others, such as volunteering at our local food bank, adopting an owl, or raising money for Variety Club. With the recent catastrophe in the Philippines, my mind was suddenly thrown into its own typhoon. I found myself asking questions around social responsibility and what it really means. What does it mean to me? What does it mean to my preschoolers? How far does it extend into the world around us? Can four year old children grasp these deep and complex concepts? What can they understand about their world? How can we teach them about being socially responsible to: ones self; ones family; ones community; ones province; ones country; ones worl...
6 comments
Read more
On Monday, we became adopted parents of a dwarf frog. It was given to us by an alumni parent whose daughter no longer wanted it and I suppose she thought I was a vulnerable victim (clearly she was right!) and I said "Yes, we would love it,". Well, there is truth in that because the children already love this little creature. The Junior OSC children made Do Not Touch signs posted near the mini aquarium and our preschoolers made the frog pictures today and wanted to shower him/her with gifts. On Monday I asked them to go home and think about a name for the frog and bring their suggestion back to class on Wednesday. So, this morning we compiled our potential name list, with the understanding that we would be voting on the name. The name suggestions were as follows: Cynna: Badgie Colin: Jack Brooke: Flower Kayla: Froggie Luca: Penguin ( NOT Penguino) Alexa: Flower Bryn: Froggie Cole: Froggie Emily: Ella Zev: Spot Chloe: Eric Cash: Benji Wayne: Jackie The big vote ...
2 comments
Read more