Pop-Up Activities
Pop-up activities gratify a young child’s curiosity to explore how things work while reinforcing their eye-hand coordination and understanding of spatial orientation and cause and effect.
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Under 2
NWRCT Arts and Crafts Fundraiser
The children in the Under 2 community created sun catchers by using their pincer grasp to place pressed flowers on a piece of acrylic glass. The artwork was part of our arts and crafts fundraiser for the Native Women’s Resource Centre of Toronto.
Please click “NWRCT Arts and Crafts Fundraiser” for more information and photos.
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Miigwech (Thank You)
We were excited to host our summer family BBQ and fundraising event in support of The Native Women’s Resource Centre of Toronto. The teachers and children together created Indigenous inspired artwork on canvases and garden stepping stones for our silent auction. We also had a food truck come to provide the delicious food. Fire It Up BBQ catering did an amazing job and everyone had a great time!
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Self-Help and Independence
In our Under 2 program, the children learn a variety of self-help skills during meals, such as serving themselves, eating independently with a spoon, drinking from an open cup, tucking in their chairs, cleaning up, washing their hands, and practicing grace and courtesy skills. What an achievement!
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Puzzles
We offer puzzles to children on a daily basis. Activities involving fine motor development help children learn to rotate their wrists and use their fingers more constructively. Working with children help them learn to manipulate their hands in unique ways and even to use them simultaneously to complete a given task. Puzzles strengthen the muscles in the hands and wrists, promote cognitive development, and reinforce hand-eye coordination, which are skills they will use for the rest of their lives.
Please click “Puzzles” to read more about puzzle activities.
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Metamorphosis of a Butterfly
We had the opportunity to witness the metamorphosis of a butterfly. We received many containers with a caterpillar in each. In the days following, we observed each of the caterpillars molt and evolve into a chrysalis and then emerge as a beautiful Painted Lady Butterfly. The butterflies dried their wings and we were able to watch their proboscis (tongue) uncoil as they sipped the Gatorade from the mesh. Later we gathered in the playground to set the butterflies free into their natural habitat. What an amazing experience!
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Painting with cars
Painting with cars is not only a fun sensory activity and a way to express ourselves creatively while using our imagination. It is also a way to explore various concepts such as cause and effect, hand eye coordination, and colour mixing!
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Welcome Spring!
Our Under 2 program explored different cultural experiences in March that celebrate the arrival of Spring. The children participated in activities such as painting with flowers, planting seeds, transplanting spring flowers into flower pots and exploring sensory activities that incorporate colours and flowers.
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Pouring Activity
The materials in the Practical Life area of the Montessori community are meant to provide children with opportunities to coordinate and refine their hand movements by means of experience, particularly through repetition. The pouring activities aim to encourage precise movement, concentration, confidence, and independence by learning to do this task independently.
Please click on “Pouring Activity” to read more about pouring activities.
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Refinement of Movement
Placing cubes on a vertical dowel aids a child’s growing ability to use the small muscles of their hands, sharpen hand-eye coordination, and explore different finger grasps.
Please click on “Refinement of Movement” to see more information and photos.
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