City Place

Portrait of Adam

Welcome to City Place, Adam!

Dear Families,

Please welcome Adam Lacroix to our team as he takes on the position of the City Place Cook.

Adam brings over ten years of experience in the hospitality industry with progressive responsibility and lives by the philosophy to always do what you love and love what you do.

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Child under 3 spreading butter on bread

Child’s Natural Desire to Learn

“The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child’s own natural desire to learn.” -Maria Montessori.

Please click on “Child’s Natural Desire to Learn” to see more photos of a child’s typical day in the Under 3 classroom.

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Child under 2 scooping snow

Yeah Snow!!!

Throughout the winter months, the children dress in their snowsuits, wear their mittens, put on their hats and boots in order to head out to the playground and play in the snow.

Please click on “Yeah Snow!!!” to continue reading and for more photos.

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Ben's Banana Bread Recipe

Banana Bread Recipe

Here is one of our favourite and most asked for recipes.

Please click “Banana Bread Recipe” for our chef Ben’s Banana Bread Recipe!

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Casa Practical Life Activities

Practical Life Activities

“The child can only develop fully by means of experience in his environment. We call such experience ‘work’.” -Maria Montessori. Practical life tasks provide an opportunity for the children’s development in the categories of Motor Skill, Self Care, Care of Environment as well as Grace and Courtesy.

Please click on “Practical Life Activities” to read about the Practical Life Area and for the photo gallery of work on these activities.

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stacked wooden blocks

LET’S GET STACKING!

Our Under 3 Montessori environment supports the need for children’s sensorimotor development by providing a construction area filled with manipulative materials for a variety of construction uses.

Please click “LET’S GET STACKING!” to read more about the benefits of building activities on children’s development.

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Child under 2 on sprinkler day

Sprinkler Day Fun

During the summer months, sprinkler day is always an exciting activity for the children. They have the opportunity to enjoy this sensory activity from head to toe.

Please click on “Sprinkler Day Fun” to read more.

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Casa child's journal entry about the development of the blue recycling bin

Canada 150

Casa commemorated Canada’s 150th birthday through a month of Canadian themed circle times, lessons and artwork.

Please click on “Canada 150” to read more and listen to the Casa children’s rendition of “O Canada” in English and French.

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Casa children in yoga class

Yoga for Children

Several articles have been published regarding the benefits of yoga for children’s health and mental well-being as well as on how parents can start a yoga practice in the home.

Please click on “Yoga for Children” for these articles.

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sweet potato experiment

Watch Me Grow!

In the Under 3 classroom, we did an experiment with a sweet potato. We submerged half a sweet potato in water and waited to see what would happen.

Please click on “Watch Me Grow” to see what happened and what we did next!

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