West Richmond Preschool

A few weeks ago, Teacher Patricia suggested we take the children to the hill area across from the far parking lot. I was all in, as the hills were lined with cherry blossom trees in full bloom and below was a sea of pink from the fallen petals. I could feel that an adventure was going to happen with the children. So instead of going to the playground, we headed over in the other direction. The children were all full of questions, such as where are we going, are we going on the bus, what about the playground, are we going to the field? We told them we are going on an adventure, it was a mystery. You could feel the curiosity building and more questions were asked. We gave them a hint and told them it was a pink place. Oh boy, that got them going… So off we headed down the walkway with no toys, no bubbles and no wagon, just ourselves. Do you know what happened? We had many adventures, all with our imaginations, our bodies and the cherry blossom trees. The children loved the way the g...

This year for Mother’s Day, the 4 Hour Class decided to do a Spa Day for their mommies. The children voted and named the spa, Lollipop Spa. In their spa, they will have hand scrub, tattoos and a café. Before the spa day… Things to do: 1. Make the gift (heart-shaped lavender pouches). The children sew their pouches.   2. Make a card.   3. Make signs for the spa and the different stations     4. Make the hand scrub. The ingredients used for it were salt, sugar, olive oil and peppermint essential oil.       5. Make the chocolate covered strawberry. 6. Buy the tattoos   Spa day… Things to do:   1. Put up the signs.     2. Bake the scones     3. Set-up the spa and café       When the Lollipop Spa opened, the mommies and grandmas came in and got pampered by the children. The children gave the...

Our four year old class recently learnt about the Art of Comics during an engaging and informative visit to the Richmond Art Gallery. The Field Trip was led by Melanie, the gallery's School Program Coordinator. Melanie displayed snapshots of an age appropriate comic strip, and asked the children thought provoking questions... How do you think the character in the comic strip is feeling? How do you know the character is feeling this way? Armed with a dry erase pen and eraser, the children were shown how easy it was to put emotion into a character by adding a few choice lines and curves around the eyes and mouth. The children were very intrigued by Melanie's interactive presentation. Melanie also showed the children how to draw a character by using basic shapes. After this lesson, she showed the children a few tricks. If you put a bend in a straight line, suddenly your character has a bent elbow. Add some squiggly lines to a circle... voila, curly hair:   Me...