by Celine ROWLANDS | Nov 14, 2019 | ECC, The Grades
This week to continue the cooking theme in STEAM we decided to create a mud kitchen where children can make mud cakes and mud pies. They had a wonderful time mixing and molding the mud/sand into creative shapes. They pumped and poured the water to make the mud the...
by Celine ROWLANDS | Nov 7, 2019 | ECC, The Grades
In this unit of inquiry we have been exploring cooperation and what does it look like in the ECC. The students were able to share with the teachers what they thought cooperation meant to them. They were then able to demonstrate there understanding through a variety of...
by Celine ROWLANDS | Oct 31, 2019 | ECC, The Grades
Our unit of inquiry “Play” is coming to an end, so we thought it would be great for our students to participate in some of their favorite activities, water play, play dough, mixing puff paints and threading and sorting beads. The students had a wonderful...
by Celine ROWLANDS | Oct 31, 2019 | ECC, Grade 5, The Grades
This week our buddies came to play with us in the ECC. We teach them about making connections with other people outside of their usual environment. They learn how to take responsibility and become good role models. For us we get to meet the older students who talk and...
by Lauma KRONITE | Oct 31, 2019 | ECC, The Grades
We have incorporated Language, Maths, Arts, Drama and Music while reading the big book about Five Little Ducks. We read the book, discussed the pictures, went to the farm to take a look at a real pond and compare it to that in the book. Then we set up a pond in a...
by Liezel BOSHOFF | Oct 17, 2019 | ECC, Front Page, The Grades
This week in Ms Liezel’s class, the K2 students learned about research and applied some of these skills to find out more about unfamiliar letters. The students chose a letter they didn’t know. We looked at the letters “v”, “m”,...
