Hard at Work
March 8, 2015, 11:51 PM
The Twos have been hard at work! Here's a glimpse at some of the amazing work they are doing:
PLAYING WITH VEHICLES
The wooden cars
The metal cars with the garages
The trains with the tracks
PLAYING MUSIC
We also like to put music on the CD player
so we can do some singing and dancing!
MAGNETS
These dinosaurs are just an example of the many
different magnets we play with.
ART
Water colours and coffee filters
Mixing colours
Playdough is just one of the many sensory options we have!
Painting with forks and spoons
Mixing colours
Experimenting
Drawing and colouring
DRESSING UP AS COMMUNITY WORKERS
Surveying the scene
Fixing things
All around the room
TAKING CARE OF THE BABY DOLLS
Feeding,
Cuddling,
and putting the babies to bed.
AND TAKING CARE OF EACH OTHER
At Two's Time we are hard at work making connections, developing our skills
and building relationships!
Nicole
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Happy Two Year!
January 19, 2015, 02:17 AM
The two year olds have been busy growing, learning, and playing. Here's a peek at the past few months:
Toys on the Floor
Different types of blocks
Cars
Magnetic Animals
Pegs
Playing Music
Reading Books
These cubbies get used as many things -
Including: garage, oven, microwave, house, cave, etc...
Table Top Activities
Imaginative Play
Dressing Up
Cooking and Baking
Making Sandwiches
Cutting Fruit
Celebrating a birthday
Making a "muscle"
Driving a car
Art
Drawing and Colouring
Painting
Gluing
Glitter
Bingo Dabbers
Sensory Activities
Sand
Water
Pumpkin Guts
Getting Out of the Classroom
Blowing Bubbles
Bouncing Balls
This year we hope to continue to develop social skills, introduce more sensory activities and provide more challenging art options!
Let's have some fun!
Nicole
All Aboard!
October 28, 2014, 02:05 AMHere we are, two months in, and wouldn't you know it - we are starting to find our rhythm!! The twos are settling in and having a great time. The teachers are very excited by how far the children have progressed already!
Here's a few pictures from the past month to give you an idea of what we have been doing:
Here's a few pictures from the past month to give you an idea of what we have been doing:
Table Top Activities
A construction puzzle
Sorting and stacking
A farm puzzle
A magnetic car puzzle
The barn and modes of tranportation puzzles
A teacher bonds with one of the children over a puzzle
Colour sorting
The Magna-Doodle
ART
Gluing
Carefully applying the glue to the tissue paper
Making a colourful collage
Painting - we love to try different things to paint with
Painting with duplo blocks
Or with our hands!
Floor Toys
We stack these and then send a ball down through them
Cars - these girls are taking turns seding the cars down the tracks
Animals
Fishing for different coloured fish
Putting the fish back in the fish bowl
Foam stacking - a definite favourite!
Trains
Sharing the trains and the track
Alphabet stones
The afternoon class loves to do the "ABCs"
Music
Our "piano"
Music on wheels
Taking a giraffe for a ride
Shaking shakers while we dance to the music
Playing the bells
Singing "Let it Go" in front of the CD player
We also love to sing songs and dance at the end of every class, just before it's time to go home!
Outside
If the weather is nice, we go out on the deck to play with bubbles...
...and chalk
Learning how to blow bubbles
Taking turns to dip the wands into the solution
Imaginative Play
Casting magic spells with her magic wand
These two drove these cars all over the room...
...from carpet to carpet...
...to carpet...
...and then under tables...
...through tunnels...
..
...even under the lego table...
...no space too small...
...this lead to the teachers creating a long tunnel...
...for everyone!
They took turns crawling through the tunnel
Which became more challenging
And then it turned into a train!!!
All Aboard!!
The train to Two's Time is chugging along at a wonderful pace and we hope to keep moving forward!
Choo-Choo,
Nicole
It's all about the Twos
September 24, 2014, 09:01 AM
The past 2 weeks have been very exciting in the Two's Time program! The children have been getting to know the classroom, the teachers and each other and are starting to settle in!
Here are some pictures to give you a sampling of the things we are doing in class:
Duplo
Stacking
Beading
Music
Snack
Art
Painting |
Using Stamps |
Pastels |
Puzzles
Apples - Biggest to Smallest |
Modes of transportation |
The Alphabet |
Sea Creatures |
Imaginative Play
Taking the toys out of the bowl... |
Growing and growing......in the Spring!
January 23, 2014, 03:47 PMWelcome back! We have a few new friends joining us this term. It is always an exciting time for children who showed up with their stories from their break. Some children told us that they spent their time in their hometown, and some stayed in beautiful Vancouver for their holidays.
It is always fun to bring out lego in our classroom as children can use their imagination to create anything they want. A few of them played together and they lined the lego up constructed buildings, chairs, and cars. Some children seemed to simply enjoy the act of holding the pieces in their hands. Some liked to use the same colors and some liked to use different colors.
We had another station for pegs last week. I am surprised that children did not play the same way that we anticipated. Some flipped the board over and pretended it was a table with many legs by putting the pegs in. Others saw and started to do the same. C said "many legs many legs".
For art, we put out materials that ensure projects that are open-ended, which will give children room to imagine. We put out Q-tips, paint, chalks, glue stick, tissue paper, paintbrush, crayons and pastels and children just love it!
Some children love to spend their alone time at the library corner. There was a book called "Pete the Cat" that captured everyone's attention. The teachers sang the lyrics as part of the story. R liked the melody a lot and he sang out with his own lyrics while he was playing a toy tow truck. Instead of singing "I love my blue shoes, I love my blue shoes, I love my blue shoes...", he sang "He is towing that home, he is towing that home, he is towing that home...".
It is so amazing to see each of the children grow and develop new skills every week. We can't wait to incorporate more challenging activities to our little brainers soon!