Program & Activities

We utilize play as an indispensable avenue to learning (emotional, social, intellectual and physical).

Children use play to translate experience into something internally meaningful to them; play clarifies concepts, provides emotional relief, facilitates social development and creates periods of satisfying delight while building friendships.

This is a brief outline of arrivals/departures, snack time, lunch time and nap time.

• 7:30am – Daycare Opens, Children Start to Arrive

• 9:00am – Morning Snack

• 11:00am – Lunch Time

• 12:00pm-2:00pm – Nap Time

• 3:00pm – Snack

• 5:00pm – Daycare Closes, Children have all gone home.

I got wet in the water table, I am not only exploring the water and how it feels, I’m also learning about emptying, filling and pouring. On top of that I’m also learning about mathematical and scientific concepts such as volume and weight!

We ask questions like “How much water can fit in this bucket” or “What happens if I drop a heavy object into a full bucket?” I may have spilled on my shirt but i’m working on developing the muscles in my hands!

There’s mud on my shirt because I made cake in the mud kitchen! I knew just the right ingredients. I needed to measure and pour into the bowl just like mom and dad at home! I felt confident in my cake making skills.

We used dirt/water/leaves and grass that we found outside, plus a few rocks to decorate! My friends made a mud castle, and some potions too! We got to use our imaginations/creativity outside in the fresh air! We worked together to search for all the ingredients we needed.

Some questions that came up were, “Where will we find the ingredients we need?” or “What happens if we add bubbles to the potion?”

There is some playdough stuck to my shirt. I used my whole hand to squeeze the playdough, then roll it into a snake! We made bowls, balls, snakes, snowmen and flowers today. Playdough helps me use my imagination and develop fine and gross motor skills!

Today this activity was engaging for all five of my senses! My teachers added cinnamon so our playdough smelled yummy, although they let us try and it was not yummy, I felt the saltiness on my tongue! The playdough felt soft and squishy. We saw the playdough transform into different ideas. We could also hear the playdough make noises as we pushed it into different containers.

When we play playdough together, we learn how to ask for materials and be patient in waiting our turn.

Today we painted! We were learning about what happens when we mix two colours together. The green paint on my shirt is from the yellow and blue paint I mixed together!

When we paint small pictures, I am working on fine motor skills, holding the paint brush and making small strokes.

When we paint large pictures on big paper, I am working on gross motor skills, using my whole arm to make brush strokes or standing and balancing on a stool to reach up high. Plus we get to make decisions about the tools and colours we use to express ourselves in our creations.

Today there was flour in our sensory bin! We were using paint brushes to brush away the flour and find arctic animals underneath the snow coloured flour.

Brushing the flour with the paintbrush helped me feel calm after mom and dad left this morning. I flicked some flour off the paintbrush onto my shirt, when the flour flew into the air it looked like a cloud in the air so I had to show my friends.

This activity also supports my brain development by helping with memory, we took turns searching for the animals, then covering them up and searching again trying to remember where each one was!

I used all the colours of the rainbow in my drawings today. I am learning to use the pincer grasp. That’s when we use our finger tips to hold the marker instead of the palm of our hand.

Using markers/pencils/crayons helps me develop hand-eye coordination and pre-writing skills to help me get ready for school.