Monday, May 21, 2012

New toys


One of my favorite things about getting a new toy is watching how each child will explore what to do with it. Some will use it for it's intended purpose, some will imitate what other have done with it, while others invent new ways to use the props to exploe their imaginations. It's times like these that i love to sit back, not say anything and just watch to see what will happen. Some of the children used the props to tell a story, some just as a makeshift hammer and some used them to talk to their friends. It's been a few weeks now so it has been placed back on the shelf to be forgotten until a few more weeks from now when i will bring it back to be explored as if new.





Monday, April 30, 2012

Birthday Girl

Happy Birthday Maddy!



Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Burnaby Lake Adventure












Even though it was a wet sort of day we had an amazing time going for our rainy day adventure! I learned my lesson the last time and left Hazel at home while the troops and I ventured on a walk through the trails around Burnaby Lake. I am very impressed that Kai did 99% of the trails walking... unlike Rosie who only lasted about 2 seconds out of the stroller (i will make a hiker out of her yet!!!). Along our way we saw flowers, birds houses, humungo size slugs (thank you Evelyn for remembering the rule to not touch... yuck), a burrow under a tree stump, fungus, skunk cabbage, geese who kept hissing at us until we hissed back, ducks and more ducks! The highlight of the trip was definitely the baby ducks. Thanks again kids for a great day!!! (I love my job!!!)

Monday, April 9, 2012

Easter Bunnies

Preparing for Easter has kept the group quite busy with making baskets, dying eggs, weaving, making bunnies, painting, egg hunts, decorating cookies, face painting and so much more...














I hope everyone has had a wonderful Easter!














Thursday, March 29, 2012

Nate the Great

Wow... how time does fly by! Mr. "Nate the great" turned 4 this month.
I love seeing how excited his friends are throughout the day, looking forward to cupcakes for snack. Hope you had a memorable birthday my little friend!








Saturday, March 17, 2012

Happy St. Patricks Day

Leprechaun day is one of my favorite days with the daycare. We talk about our plan to catch a leprechaun as soon as March rolls around. On Tuesday we started making our traps, ensuring that they were sparkly enough to attract a leprechaun. On Friday we walked up to the park to collect shamrocks from the grass to entice the leprechauns to walk into our traps. Unfortunately there were no shamrocks.... but Amelia insisted that the multitude of three petaled weeds were in fact shamrocks. During story time just before nap we all went outside to set our traps, and then we waited......

No St.Patricks day celebration would be complete without shamrock shaped cookies.

Amelia did a great job showing the boys how to spread green icing on the cookies!





By the time Nathan had dipped his knife into the icing and brought it back to the cookie there wasn't much left on his knife to spread.






At the end of nap time we went outside to check our traps, and watching the look on their faces was absolutely priceless! We went outside together and placed both hands on our traps and closed our eyes and said with all our hearts "I SET YOU FREE"....

And sure enough.... there was gold! (As I am sure you all know that when you catch a leprechaun and you set him free, he leaves you his gold.)



I for one was not surprised about actually catching the leprechaun... after all, we were at the end of the rainbow!




















Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Back yard Buddies

Today really did feel like spring! Hanging out in the back yard playing in the sunshine felt SOOOOO good!Today was one of those days when everyone was busy doing things.
Of course having new sidewalk chalk and new bubbles to play with kept everyone busy for quite some time.


Kai and Rosie were really funny today. They played along side each other for most of the outside time. They even spontaneously shared the chalk with one another while sitting in the sunshine.




But the best part was when they were done they both stood up and Rosie leaned in to give Kai a "thanks for being my friend" kiss!

It's moments like this that make your heart melt!


Thanks for being my "back yard buddies"!