Exploring Canada’s Landscape
Our Grade 1 students add province- and territory-specific elements to their map of Canada, after exploring our country's diverse landscape....
Making Learning Visible
“I Hear Thunder”
http://vimeo.com/36558506 The PK class has been exploring the sounds of rain showers and thunderstorms, and created rain sticks to make their own rain sounds and recreate a rain shower. This video shows the...
Constructing Learning Through Castle Construction
What began as a simple idea of building a castle from a box in our SK classroom, evolved into an in-depth journey of experiential and hands-on learning. After months of drawing, planning and...
Building the Number Train
This week, a group of PK’s worked together to build a number train puzzle, counting dots to match to numerals and then numbers of objects, and then sequencing the numbers from 1 to 10.
Puzzles improve a child’s cognitive, problem solving and reasoning skills. They also help them to see whole-part relationships, increase their visual spacial awareness and, depending on the subject matter, can teach them a variety of topics, like the alphabet, numbers, colour recognition, shape recognition, and more!
SK Visit to the Bank
As part of their research on money and banks, our SK's headed out for an exciting and engaging ‘field’ trip to a “real live” bank. Students had the opportunity to explore the machine...
Investigating Light and Electricity
Our Grade 3 students create their vision of the underground city of Ember, following their inquiries about light and electricity while studying the novel, "The City of Ember."...
Family Fun Day
On January 27th, Richland students, staff and families joined us for ‘Family Fun Day,’ a community-building event in celebration of Winterfest and Family Literacy Day. The day began with a morning of...
Mind Over Matter
Recently, our Grade 5/6 students tried to solve a puzzle where the letters A-Z = the numbers 1-26. Most students figured out that you must first assign a number to each letter. Then,...
Capturing Wonderment through Daily Reflections
Each morning, our JK parents drop their children off and entrust them into our care for a day of engaging and experiential learning. As Reggio-inspired educators, we engage our children in their...
“I’ll Huff and I’ll Puff…”
This week, our PK students were excited to see the wet weather and were asked what they knew about rain: “It makes the flowers grow up and up,” shared Sebastian. “It comes from the...