Grouptime events

Cedar Group Today we met with our Inquiry group.  We spent some time learning each other's names and welcomed the new children at Creative Minds through puppet song play. The Maple group will be guided by Brianna and Deb and the Oak group will be supported by Carmen and Mai. I'll be helping the Cedar group along with Dawn. The teachers will meet today to talk about the direction of our inquiry for the next few weeks. We will do our best to keep you posted of the activities and children's learning experiences. Maple group Oak Group

 Before we began our Yoga story of the day the children greeted the beautiful Spring sunshine with their gentle, yet energized breath. I find Sun Salutation poses are the best to revitalize and refresh the mind and body. These poses are dynamic yet focused so provide children the space to be actively engaged and be in their own space while doing the poses. Since it's Spring it also gives us the opportunity to pay gratitude to the morning sunshine and embrace its blessings as we think about the growing and changing that is happening around us Sun salutation and sky arrow poses To continue the theme of  Gratitude and Generosity, we acted the Lion and the Mouse fable using different yoga poses. The children enjoyed pretending to be the irritated Lion and the scared mouse. We discussed the lesson of the story: that each of us is important and helpful no matter what size. Then each child were given a task of helping me clean and organize the classroom. ...

Olin reading the Idiograph "I can read all by myself"- Naomi Hot, cross buns Hot, cross buns One a penny Two a penny Hot, cross buns "It's like a pattern" - Eric "See, I can write my own name!" - Nicholas Emerson & Elliot working together to find the right keys for Hot cross buns During the Easter week the children learned about the song  Hot, Cross Buns.   After singing a few times the children worked on reading and writing the Ideograph for the song.  Ideographs are symbols in place of the song phrases.  This exercise helps children develop print  and phonological awareness ( sounds as symbols).  As we sang, some children chose to practice  the solfa (music hand signs) while the others played it on the piano. They each had a turn to track and draw their own Ideographs.  Did you know that Hot Cross Buns are traditionally baked and given as gifts around Eater Time in the earlie...