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Recycled materials and scissors

Recycled Art With Melanie!

A fun craft to do at home that also helps teach our children how we can help our planet earth is using recycled items as art materials. You can use materials easily found at home such as paper towel rolls, boxes, flyers, glue or tape, and scissors. Have fun doing it together! (Please click for more information.)

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Fruit Smoothie

Fruit Smoothie With Sonia!

Watch this video of Sonia making a smoothie with fruit, rolled oats, milk, and honey. Looks delicious! Click to see the video!

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Brianne's daughter using moonsand that they made

Making Moonsand With Brianne!

Watch this video of Brianne, from our Under 3 classroom, and her daughter using the moonsand they made! So easy and fun to make. Click to see the video!

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Bhoomi folding fabric for a mask

Making a Mask with Bhoomi!

Let’s watch a video of how to make a mask with Bhoomi! You can use commonly found materials at home. Click to see the video!

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St. Patrick's Day 'The Month of March' image

St Patrick’s Day Songs!

Our children really enjoy St. Patrick’s Day. North Casa learned the following songs that we would like to share with you to sing along with your children. We have provided a picture of the name and title of each song to search in YouTube. Enjoy!

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A teacher demonstrating Second Step

Social Emotional Skills Through Second Step

Empathy, emotion management and social problem solving contribute to success in school and throughout life. We use the Second Step program through photo-lesson cards, posters, puppets, a be-calm bunny, hearts, and songs to help children gain confidence, achieve positive goals, collaborate well, and navigate the world more effectively. Please click “view” for more details.

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Simone placing her breaded fish into the oven

Simone’s Breaded Fish

The kitchen is the heart of any of our schools. The children love Simone’s breaded fish and it’s so easy to make. Please click on “view” to see the recipe and more photos.

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Items to help children self-regulate

Self-Regulation and Micro-Environments

Learning to self-regulate is a large part of life in the Under Three Montessori classroom. One way we help children to self-regulate is by providing activities and micro-environments within our classroom that help them to up-regulate (when they need to be energized) and down-regulate (when they need to be relaxed).

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Child scooping snow and ice cubes

Snow!

The children explored our first snow this season with colourful ice cubes using scoops, cups and tongs. They scooped and felt the snow, and observed it melting. This was a great activity to extend our outdoor environment by bringing snow inside.

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Autumn materials

Autumn in French

We have been enjoying the beautiful autumn (l’ automne) weather and everything fall has to offer, along with the beautiful colours, textures, smells and the yummy food. We have incorporated Fall in various ways in our role playing, sensory and culture activities. In each French lesson, we translated the English words to French words.

Please click “Autumn in French” for more photos and information.

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