Older Floor - July Update

August already! Wow I cannot believe our summer is half over!  This month has been super busy.  We got to know our new teacher Andrea better and welcomed De to our group!  They are wonderful additions and have really fit in so perfectly with our groups.  We also said “see you soon” to Haley, it was an emotional day for everyone.  We will miss Haley immensely she has been with the centre for almost 1 ½ years.  As I’m sure most of you know Haley loved working with the kids, they were always her first priority.  The kids said they will miss Haley’s jokes, snuggles and smile.  Good luck Haley with your future endeavours, we know you’ll do amazing.  We’ve had lots of fun events, PJ day, Canada Day activities, water days, field trips and so much more.

               For our field trip we went to Assiniboine Park.  We split in to two groups the Rainbow Tigers and the Cheetahs.  The Cheetahs started at the Nature Playground and had such a fun time.  They played on the slide, climbed the spider web and played in the sand area.  The Rainbow Tigers started at the duck pond and the Leo Mole Sculpture Garden.  It was amazing to see the deep thoughts the children had about the flowers and sculptures they saw.  We found a witches house, or so we thought, the Assiniboine Park keeper came and told us that it’s actually much less interesting.  The hut is where they store their garden and park tools.  We actually lost track of time in the gardens because we were enjoying ourselves so much.  After that we had to run back to the meeting area and meet up with the Cheetahs and other groups for lunch.  I could go on and on about all we did at the park, if you want to hear more about our field trip, check out our document logs on the wall outside the office.

               Mr. Ken the Magician came and wow was he ever funny!  We all got to be involved, Diana even got to join him at the front and help with a magic trick!  She even got to keep part of the trick after.  Our coordinator was visiting that day and Mr. Ken brought her up to participate too, the teachers all had a good laugh about that! 

               Thank you so much for all who participated in crazy hair day and it was crazy!  Our outdoor challenge day was a huge success!  For those of you who saw Andrea and Brittany at the end of the day I can bet you could all see just how much fun the children had getting to “face paint” the two of them.  We have had many water days. Last week we had a teacher verses kid crochet water balloon fight, the teachers like to believe they won but the kids definitely did.  One of our families brought their pup, Nala for a visit.  Nala was amazing with the kids; our kids had many great questions about Nala.  Thank you so much to Nala and her family for bringing her in.  Our garden outside has been growing so much we have tried a few of the vegetables that we have grown. 

               We visited the MacDonald Fire Hall this week.  It was SO COOL!!!!!  Mr. Siemens talked to us about all the gear the firefighters have to wear.  Thank you to Kaitlyn for volunteering to wear all the fire gear.  It looked very hot and heavy.  We got to crawl around the lunch room of the fire hall in the dark to practice what the firefighters do.  While we were there they got a real call they had to run off too.  Luckily it wasn’t far away and everything was all good!  When they came back and we got to watch Macaulay use the jaws of life to cut a 2 x 2 piece of wood.  Kerri even got to give it a try!  We got to spray the fire hose at a Santa statue and knock him over. 

               Such a busy fun filled month, we were so lucky to have such amazing weather.  Stay tuned for what is in store for August.