Here 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:

Welcome 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!


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!

October is always an exciting month at school. Children look forward to the first party of the school year - the Halloween party!  Children dressed up in their favourite characters or animals.  It was interesting to watch them take on the persona of the character they were dressed as- Snow White, Tinker Bell, a zebra, a bee, a tiger, a dinosaur, a firefighter, Super Girl, Thomas the Train and Bob the Builder all came to school that day!

During group time, we showed the children a pumpkin. We discussed the outside but they were most curious about the inside. So we cut the pumpkin open, took out the flesh and played with the seeds.  The colour, the texture and the smell of the pumpkin caught their attention and some of the children even tried to have a taste of it :)


Here are some comments the children made about the pumpkin flesh:

"It's sticky."
"It feels funny."
"Orange."
"Waaa.."
"Can I try?"
"Yucky!"


By alternating toys and activities each week, children are given multiple opportunities to play in their own creative ways.  When I watch children use materials in new and unconventional ways, I question why adults expect toys to be used in a certain way. Isn't this limiting their creativity? I have observed that the simpler the toy or material, the more complex the play becomes.

It is an exciting time for us to see children walking into the classroom with smiles on their faces.  Of course, the first few weeks was a period of adjustment as children learnt to say goodbye to their parents and caregivers. The moment of saying goodbye can be very difficult for both child and parent and we are proud of them all for being brave! We are pleasantly surprised how quickly the children have adapted to the classroom environment and engaged in the activities that we carefully chose for them.