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The Grade 1 class has explored ways of maintaining a healthy body such as through exercise and good nutrition. Of interest to them was the food pyramid. They have taken this inquiry further into the tinker lab where they have been designing the food pyramid 
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The interactions between children and nature ensure that, “Children who are surrounded by nature experience benefits to their physical, social, and cognitive development.” It is vitally important that, “Children experience bountiful opportunities for interacting with nature.” Bringing nature inside onto every surface and in every form 
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Malaguzzi has said, “Our goal is to build an amiable school, where children, teachers, and families feel at home.” How do we accomplish such a feeling of home within our school? Homes are warm, safe and nurturing to our needs. We enjoy being ourselves within 
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As a community that embraces a culture of innovation and creativity, we value learning from one another and recognize the incredible breadth of skills and expertise that we bring to our profession. At Richland we celebrate these strengths and are pleased to offer a series 
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There has been much written about today’s child not having enough time outdoors, free to explore, wonder and play within nature’s beauty.  We know that young children learn through the sounds, scents, and seasons of the outdoors. Richard Louv states and dialogues about the facts in 
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“Children first learn about patterns by discriminating similarities and differences as they sort. As they begin to understand the relationships between objects, they can start to make predictions. They then proceed to the recognition of visual, kinesthetic, and auditory patterns in their environment. From recognition, they 
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In continuing to explore perspective, the children have been reading Doreen Cronin’s books “Diary of a Worm” and “Diary of a Spider”.  The books present an insect perspective in an enlightening and humorous way, for example, “vacuum drills” at spider school instead of fire drills.  
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I am very excited to share our latest investigation.  Since September I had noticed ramps being built, as part of the children’s work in the block area.   Building on to their interest, I will be supporting the development of engineering habits of mind by challenging the children 
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For the past few weeks our students have been developing their media literacy skills through touch-typing practice. Using the resource, BBC Typing, our class has been focusing on utilizing every digit to maximize speed. The development of this skill is essential to our students, as the 
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This year’s Holiday Concert is beginning to shape up to become a wonderful celebration of our diverse cultures through global celebrations.   The Grade 3 class knew early on that their focus would be related to Diwali, the “Festival of Lights”. A couple of Grade 3 students have 
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