This Moment

{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. 

A Basket of Beads

I love how the children are exploring the basket of glass beads on the shelf right now and I love where their imagination takes them.  Enjoy!

This Moment

{this moment} 

- A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. 

This Week at Cork Street...

 This week at Cork Street our children are exploring picture making inside a frame!

 There is lots of great Life Cycle working going on!

Map Making for the Older Children! 

And well, just time for pouring lots of sand and having deep conversations!

This Week at Quinpool Rd...

Rainbow glass beads for Creating and Making

 Wow, where is the time going?  We are 41/2 weeks away from the end of  our Maple Tree school year or term!

In some ways, we are all feeling ready for that break and in other ways I am sad.  I find it hard saying goodbye to the children we have had for two or three years.

This week we are sharing some snippets from our classrooms.  This is the time of the year that we see all of the gifts from the children.  The culmination of all that hard work from the last year or two.  Take a moment to reflect on that and how much your child has evolved and grown.

The Plant Table

We've been busy planting out garden by starting seeds inside.

Tadpoles 

 We've been watching out tadpoles with interest and excitement!

More Life Cycles at our Nature Table

Learning about Life Cycles. 

Life Cycle Work of the Praying Mantis

Life Cycle Work of the Butterfly

Caterpillars, so much waiting for change.  Its a good lesson in patience!

This Moment

{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. 

This Moment

{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. 

This Moment

{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. 

Sidewalks and Sunshine

 One of the things I love about this time of the year is that the sidewalk chalk comes out and the children create scenes or stories on the sidewalk.  It is amazing to me how much detail goes into each and every picture.

I love how children draw faces and accessories on their characters.  When you take the time to ask children about their drawing you learn so much from them.  Not just about a rocket ship crashing into a house but what those space people were eating at the time the crash happened.

I love how the drawing stretches out and not only becomes wide but long and the need for more space becomes apparent.

 It might look like just lines and circles but man is it lovely and the beginning of so much more.
~Ms. Michelle