Creating Marbleized Paper

Our facilitator provided children with an opportunity to explore colour mixing but with a twist. 

Children were provided with three containers that contained vegetable oil, food colouring and a little bit of water. They were then invited to add drops of colour onto a black tray and to swirl the colours together.  Mixing on the black tray meant that you couldn’t really see how the colours were mixing until you pressed the blank sheet against the surface and then pulled it away to see your masterpiece. 

         

                                              

                                           

The children (and adults) were delighted to turn over their papers to discover how their colours had mixed and the patterns that were created.  One young friend stayed at this activity for over 30 minutes and experimented with different strategies and techniques.

 “Children use their senses, their minds and their bodies to find out about and make sense of what they see, feel and experience in the world around them. They gather information and develop new skills, including thinking skills. They form ideas and theories and test these out. They refine their ideas through exploring their environment actively and through interacting and communicating with adults and with other children. Much of this happens through play and    other experiences that allow children to be creative, to take risks, and to make discoveries. As they learn, they retest their theories adjusting them to take on board new discoveries and new experience”  National Council for Curriculum and Evaluation

Lynda Gellner 

Collaborative Art

Art is an important part to a child's development. Through art they learn to create and manipulate materials in a way that expresses their ideas in a different form than play does.

Collaborative art is a form of art that allows children the opportunity to work together as a team. This team building activity opens children up to sharing their different life and cultural experiences. By sharing these experiences children see and learn that everyone has similarities and differences and that everyone's contributions should be accepted equally.

By working as a team, incorporating all shared ideas in some way and accepting each other for who they are is evident in the completed collaborative art product.

Laura Bieber

Country Fair

Yes it is true! Laura's Country Fair is traveling to a Centre near you!

Come on out to enjoy some old time fun. There will be games such as: a fishing pond, ring toss, sack races, etc. plus a photo booth, ball pit, snacks and a pie eating contest that will be at 10:45 am!

Miller's Country Fair- Thursday October 22 (10 a.m. to 12 p.m.)
Dr. Hanna's Country Fair- Saturday October 24 (10 a.m. to 12 p.m.)
 
Hope to see you there for a good ol' time!
 

Laura Bieber



Magic Milk

This week we had some fun experimenting with science and art.

What you need:

Milk

Larger tray/dish

Food colouring

Dish soap

Q-tips

Pour a little bit of milk into your dish (enough to cover the bottom). Next create a design with the food colouring in the milk (we covered all the milk). Lastly dip a q-tip into the dish soap and stick it into the middle of the tray. Watch the magic happen!

Experiment and explore as long as you want. 

After we were done we pressed a piece of paper into the tray to create a “water colour like” painting. 

Children of all ages were amazed with this neat science/art experiment. Guaranteed hours of fun. 

Laura Bieber

Fall at the Early Years

Welcome to Fall. The Early Years Centres are open weekly Mondays to Thursdays 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Fridays 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and Dr. Hanna Location only Saturdays 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Since summer is officially over, many of our regular programs have returned to the Early Years Centres. Be sure to check out our October calendar to be updated on the schedule changes.

If you visit the Dr. Hanna location you will see Chelsey. Chelsey is enjoying her new role at the Centre and meeting all of you that visit.

At the Scott location you will meet Laura who has been at the Centre for over a year and enjoys the work she does with all the families that she meets throughout her day. You will also see Jessica three times a week at the Scott location. She is employed with Catholic Family Services and is bringing a variety of programs to the Scott location. Be sure to check out the calendar and pre-register for her programs if interested.

Visit Linda at Miller who has vast daycare experience and has created a warm and calm atmosphere to play and work in.

Lynn is very passionate about Triple P and the other programs she offers families in and around the Early Years Family Centres. Lynn firmly believes that, "an ounce of prevention, is worth a pound of cure!"

You may also see Danica on one of your visits. She will be in and out of the centres for the next few months and then will be facilitating the Triple P program as well.

A huge thank you to Lynda who makes it all happen for our centres as the Site Developer.

Be sure to check out our October calendar and drop-in for a play to see each centres new Fall looks!

Laura Bieber

   

Tim Horton's Smile Cookie Program

We are thrilled to share that the Early Years Family Centres have been selected as the recipient of the Regina Tim Horton's Smile Cookie Program this month.  The program runs Sept 14th to 20th and 100% of the cookie sales will be directed to the EYFC.  These funds will help us continue to offer drop-in and scheduled programs at our three wonderful spaces for the children and families in our community.  You may or may not know that  we currently operate on short term grants and projects dollars as well as in-kind support from several organizations so fundraising opportunities like this are essential to our future.   I would invite you to consider how you might be able to support this campaign - perhaps a treat for yourself, treats for a meeting you have planned during that time, sharing this news with others. 

Laura Bieber