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• New Adventures in Daycareland
  on Jun 1, 2013 in playground outdoor play playdough painting behaviour
  We have a new little girl at the daycare for the next few weeks! Her name is Riko and she is almost 3 years old. She has come all the way from Japan, with her mother. She speaks very little English, and so is quite the little warrior in a new land.
• Playin' in the Rain
  on May 27, 2013 in outdoor play
  These pictures are actually from a couple of weeks ago. I completely forgot to post them, but they are so cute, I figured it was better late than never! It was a pretty mild, spring rain on this day. When Noah and B.'s classes got out of Junior K...
• Mother's Day Craft: Flower Photograph
  on May 18, 2013 in crafts shapes family
  We did a simple craft for Mother's Day using Bristol Board, various foam shapes, and photos of the children. The kids just had to glue their photo onto a circle shape, stick the foam stem onto a rectangle outline, and then add the leaves and petals.
• Lazy Days of....Summer?
  on May 13, 2013 in games playground
  Between April and May, the season seemed to change directly from winter to summer. (We're not complaining!) Much of the time it has been shorts and t-shirt weather. We have even started applying sunscreen. As of late April, Oscar has left the day...
• Conflicting Goals
  on May 9, 2013 in 12-18 months behaviour
  My goal: to get Leila to stop banging the remote Leila's goal: to bang the remote Final Score:    Leila: 1           Mommy: 0...
• High Park Cherry Blossoms 2013
  on May 6, 2013 in Neighbourhood Programs and Events family Day Trips
  As of the May 4/5 weekend, the cherry blossoms in High Park have, well, blossomed! Although they are located in a few different places within the park, the best spot, hands down, is the steep hill, leading from the road (right by the Grenadier Restau...
• Field Trip to the ROM!
  on May 3, 2013 in Day Trips
  B.'s mother generously offered to share her family pass to the Royal Ontario Museum with the daycare. So she, myself, B., Noah, Thomas and Leila went on a field trip! We had a blast! B. is especially fond of dinosaurs. Okay, he is downright crazy...
• Little Stars
  on Apr 28, 2013 in action songs music high activity songs meals
  This is our rowdy music circle! It is very rare that I get all the children sitting in the circle. It is actually the older boys who always want to step it up a notch. Here we are singing "Twinkle Twinkle". Noah and B. had to get to the highest point...
• Rock Star Kids
  on Apr 23, 2013 in painting reading
  This is Thomas's all-time favourite toy at the daycare: the guitar that's far too big for him. Actually, it's too big for most of the kids. It's often inadvertently used as a weapon when a child is carrying it from place to place; even ...
• Springtime and the Livin is Mucky
  on Apr 20, 2013 in playground outdoor play health
  We are FINALLY enjoying more springlike weather this week! I love these pictures of Thomas and Leila on the swings. It reminds me of Noah and Aidas on the same swings back in the day, when I had just started the daycare. And Thomas is SO busted here,...
• The Volcano
  on Apr 14, 2013
  Noah came out of kindergarten one day with instructions on how to make a volcano at home. His teacher had done it with the class. We figured we'd give it a go! Well, we did it three times and still didn't quite perfect it (I think we needed a bigger...
• More Truck Sightings!
  on Apr 8, 2013 in outdoor play
  Toronto Hydro has been doing a lot of work across from Keele Street Public School. The boys have basically had front row seats to a show of men working on trucks; cranes mostly. One day, Thomas did not leave the fence - I don't even think he moved a...
• Easter Eggs
  on Apr 3, 2013 in party colours Easter
  Not only were the kids busy with Easter crafts for the past few weeks, they've also been dyeing and decorating Easter eggs. Even Thomas got into painting an egg. It was his first time painting anything at the daycare. He was very gentle and c...
• One
  on Mar 30, 2013 in party family
  We had Leila's family birthday party a week early, since it would have been difficult to get everyone together on the Easter weekend. It was a huge success, mostly thanks to a nice long nap she had had that morning. But also thanks to all the fam...
• Easter Crafts
  on Mar 26, 2013
  The daycare has been busy with kids doing Easter crafts. One of the crafts we did last week was potato print Easter eggs. This is the same craft we did a couple of years ago. I helped the kids to mix the paints to make pastel colours. Then they d...
• Winter Fun!
  on Mar 19, 2013
  We had a lot of fun playing outside after picking the bigger boys up from school today!
• T is for Truck
  on Mar 15, 2013 in crafts pretend play playground outdoor play winter Day Trips
  We have had the good fortune of seeing (on more than one occasion)  a total of 3, yes THREE cement mixers busy at work on Pacific Avenue. The kids always stare at the trucks and the workers in awe. I still remember a couple of years ago, mention...
• Little Valentines
  on Mar 2, 2013 in playground party outdoor play winter Valentine's Day
  Well, it has been a cold, cold winter. Our family was fortunate to warm it up a little with a trip to Hawaii (and San Francisco on the way there and back). But now it is back to reality, and we at the daycare are trying to enjoy the bearable days whe...
• Happy Holidays, Happy Birthday, and a Daycare Reunion
  on Jan 7, 2013 in crafts party Christmas
  The daycare kids helped me unload the Christmas decorations this year, and they fully participated in decorating the tree. While I was trying to wrap lights around the tree, they (at least the older boys who were not napping at the time) were trying...
• Halloween and Other Fall Activities
  on Nov 28, 2012
  Fall is my favourite season, and I love decorating the apartment with kids' fall-themed crafts. One of the first crafts we did for fall was this cute leaf craft. I cut leaf shapes out of Bristol Board and the kids painted them, as well as a litt...

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