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Our practicum students
We have had a few excellent practicum students staying with us over the last several months. They all have been great, as they led the kids through various projects. We appreciate their involvement and contribution – we all, not just the children, learnt something from them. ...
Read MoreArctic, part II.
Remember our first post on Arctic? We went from animals on to food chains, environment (which is a big part of our mission), we even supported polar bear habitat by buying specially labelled Coca Cola and small polar bear plush toys. We continued by talking about people living in the Artic, and we topped it all off by our major project: igloo. This took us 2 months to complete. Big thank you to all the parents who helped us collect the bottles…(almost 300 of them, if you wonder..) To this date the children play in the igloo and claim they are Eskimos 🙂 ...
Read MoreSpring break
Our spring break was action-packed, with multiple field trips (New West, Science World, North Shore, and Airport) . Special visit was made by friendly reptiles and some furry creatures. It was a blast and even our teachers gathered courage to touch them. If you would like all the photos from the reptile day, please...
Read MoreMusic lesson
Finally we found an excellent and engaging music teacher. She will be coming every Tuesday, spending the time with all the children. During the first lesson we could see and feel the high degree of her talent, experience and quality of her lessons. She focuses on singing, beat, rhythm, simple musical instruments, story-telling, movement. Her engagement with the kids was absolutely outstanding. Kids or adults, we were all blown away! Welcome, Marika! ...
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