A fall Update

I have not been very good at uodating this blog this fall, sorry. Here is a little summary and pictures of our fall afterschool!

We explored a bit if Germany, spent a lot if time making rainbow bracelets, and duct tape projects and Lego. We enjoyed HALLOWEEN Bingo with Kim's group. I can't forget making our own pretzels, rice Krispy squares and of course, mixology! We are now working in Christmas gifts and projects and will be studying India for the next couple months. 

Harvest Moon lanterns

Made our harvest moon lanterns today to celebrate the Autumn Equinox. 

This turned out to be a fairly complicated adventure. Good job Guys!!

GERMANY & Autumn Fun!

For the next two weeks after school we will be playing with Oktoberfest. 

Tuesday we will celebrate by playing a few German children's games and having Black Forest cake. 

Thursday there will be an invitation to make German cardstock gingerbread hearts. 

We will experiment with some sausage and pretzel making, leaf printing and exploring some pictures a good friend of mine has shared from her recent trip to Germany. 

On October 7, we will begin to study some beautiful castles in Germany for the last two weeks of our study of Germany. 

The children have been very focused on playing Lego, getting back into the swing of school and adjusting to their new schedules. I don't like to make after school too structured, they really do need this down time and time to socialize with their friends. All activities are set out as invitations, except when we have a special event planned. 

Over the next few weeks there will be serval Fall art activities set out as well. These will include coffee filter leaves & apple tree printing. 

Hope everyone is enjoying your Fall so far! Don't forget to take a peak at our beautiful Harvest moon. The Autumn Equinox is today, September 22 and the moon was really breathtaking last night!

My family visited the Green Pig corn maze a couple weeks ago, I recommend this fun activity if you have some time on the weekend. They have a few special events planned in October; flashlight corn maze (6-9pm Friday & Saturdays). They also have pumpkin blasting, this was a fun activity too, we all had a try! 

Gourmet corn in the Cobb is back at the dieppe market!! It doesn't last long and well worth the effort to get there on a Saturday! 2 minutes to boil and it is delicious!!!

New back to school activities

Some new activities to kick off the school year after school: The new Rainbow Loom bracelet making station 

duct tape craft centre

RAK Good deeds project 

and Around The World in a school year activities. 

The kiddos will not be bored after school and they will have lots of opportunities to learn some new skills as well as how to be a responsible member of our community and gain some knowledge about others countries around the world!! 

Back to school-Bring it on! 

Summer camp fun

It's been a great week! We have had lots of playground play, WRES, super play park, Bessborough school playground, Centennial Park & Lions Park! We had a 5km hike,bus rides, splash pad fun, water slide fun, picnics, bubble art & duct tape crafts! Today is smurf play & acquatic centre! Tomorrow is Smurfs 2 @ Crystal Palace movie theatre. 

Summer camp day #1

With only three children this week it sure made making plans pretty easy. On our first day we went to WRES playground to play with Playful Penguins group in the morning after having Ella's favourite-cheese biscuits, for snack.

The children picked fresh garden peas and carrots from the garden to go with pizza for lunch. 

This afternoon was a cloudy kind if day and I have been craving gingerbread & fresh whipped cream since my family's visit to King's Landing this summer so, created a really awesome gingerbread-cooking smell in my house while the kiddos played school downstairs. ( I guess they must be ready for next week to start!)  

We also made homemade bubbles to create bubble art and the highlight if the day was-BUG CATCHING! We spent some time in the field out back and caught some grasshoppers in the personal bug catching necklaces. Skye's fun fact: Ella is NOT afraid of grasshoppers! Another fun fact: grasshoppers are herbivores and eat half their body weight in plants every day! 

Super-fun camp day #1!!!

Around the world in a school year

This year after school we will be exploring the world!!! We will choose 8 countries and explore, one every 4-5 weeks. The children will choose the countries that they are interested in learning about. Mexico, China, Scotland & Australia have already been chosen. 

We will research a little about the celebrations, food, crafts and customs of each country. 

If your child is coming after school this year, tell them to think about what country they would like to explore and you can email me! 

Spider babies

Isabel (preschool) was asking me about spiders lat week after she watched charlottes web. She had lots of questions about spider mommies and their babies. We

Spent some time researching on the Internet and even got to enjoy a past preschool spider project! Today when I went to walk Skye to school, right beside our front door, hundreds of baby spiders!! The preschoolers were excited to watch them. 

Nacho bar on a PD day

This kiddies talked me into a nacho be for lunch today while we were together for a PD day. 

We made a list of what we wanted, walked to the superstore and shopped for the ingredients, the children worked the self-serve checkout and bagged the groceries. 

When we got back from our walk everyone pitched in to prepare; peeling and cutting cucumbers, peppers, tomatoes, scallions and grating cheese and set up the nacho 'buffet'. Everyone made their own plate (or 2 or 3 plates!!!) and did we ever enjoy our creation! The children agreed that it was the best PD day activity ever!!! 

Nature Camps this Summer

I will be having 5 Nature Summer Camps this summer.
July 29, 31 & August 2, 7 & 9
8:30 am~11:30am
$100 for all 5 mornings, includes healthy morning picnic snack
Can register for individual mornings for $20 each
These will be JAM~PACKED full of fun!!!!

Nature project themes each morning
Good old fashion summertime fun


5~12 year olds

Preschool end of year schedule

I always finish preschool the week before the last day if school. This year, the last day of preschool is Friday, June 14.

I would like to have preschool Wednesday, Thursday & Friday for June, so there will be a preschool morning June 5, 6,7 & June 12,13,14.

Our annual Zoo trip is Thursday, June 6. Meet at the Zoo at 9:00. Pick up at MacDonalds at noon. Please send your child with $10 for the zoo & a happy meal.

Our preschool graduation ceremony will be Friday, June 14 at 11:00.

Any questions, don't hesitate to email or call!! 872-1586

Tongue Twister Fun

We had one fun with clapping rhythms and tongue twisters today.
For fun, give these tongue twisters a try:

Say each if the following phrases 5 times each, in a row, have a little family fun!

Toy boat

Lovely lemon liniment

Three free throws

A proper copper coffee pot

Enjoy our beautiful sunny weather!
Miss Trish

Charlie & shadows

We have been spending time enjoying our beautiful lion head bunny~Charlie~outside. He loves the kiddies and loves the front yard.

Afterschool has also been loving the chalk! Last week on a beautiful sunny afternoon we traced each others shadows and very one decorated their own, they really turned out amazing! We had a good laugh over Miss Trish's huge feet!

Nature in Preschool

We had a blast enjoying the beautiful hot and sunny morning today!!! We spent some time re~potting herbs, making a Spider web catcher, attempting to capture an ant hill and painting outside. What a wonderful morning!