The Children's Place - Child Care Centres

Howdy 🤠 TCP family and friends. Our toddlers 👶🏼 from our Kanata location really enjoy gross motor activities. Recently they had the opportunity to do some crawling through tunnels. In their classroom they had a fabric tunnel and the children 👶🏼 were so eager to crawl through it. They waited so nicely, took turns and talked with their friends while they waited.
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Happy Friday everyone. 😊 Brrr the air was crisp this morning. The cooler weather is fast approaching. The toddlers from our Carling location have been observing the change in their environment outside. They noticed the leaves 🍁 changing different colours. 🍂🍂 For art 🖼️ recently the glued cutouts of leaves 🍃 and glued them onto a tree on construction paper. This experience encouraged fine motor skills, hand ✋🏼 eye 👁️ coordination, social skills and language skills while talking about the changes they see outside.
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Let’s work together to complete a task. 😊 That is exactly what our school age children 👧🏽 🧒🏼 did to put together a few our puzzles 🧩 recently. They worked together sharing, turn taking and expressing their ideas 💡 all while putting together some new puzzles. 🧩 Once the puzzles were put together they applied glue onto them so they hang them up on the wall. Instant art.
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Hi everyone, we hope you are all having a great day. 😊 Our preschool children 🧒🏼 👧🏽 from our Kanata location have been working on early math activities. The children 🧒🏼👧🏽 really enjoy the simple math activities. They keep the children 🧒🏼👧🏽engaged and eager to try new things. Lots of counting is involved.
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Boy are we spoiled here at TCP. We had a staff appreciation day ❤️ today at both of our locations. We had Eastside Mario’s pasta (4 different kinds), salad, bread, 🥖 crepes with fruit, strawberry 🍓 shortcake 🍰 and a trifle cake. And as Tammie would say we had fun pop and fun chips. We have to say it was delicious. 🤤 We are so lucky to work somewhere that we feel so valued and enjoy going into work everyday. We are very appreciative. 😊

Hi friends. 😊 Our friends in our preschool program from our Kanata location had the opportunity to do
a fun activity. The educators 👩🏻‍🏫 froze small animals in ice 🧊 for the children to try and release from the ice using paintbrushes 🖌️ and water. 💦 The children 🧒🏼👧🏽 looked so surprised when they saw the ice 🧊 melt due to the water. 💧 This experience encouraged fine motor skills, sharing, turn taking and early science 🧫 skills.
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Happy wet Wednesday everyone. 😊We are asking everyone to help us sing 🎶 Rain, ☔️rain, 🌧️ go away in hopes the rain ☔️ will stop. 😊 Here is a little video to help us sing. 🎤

Rain Rain Go Away | Family Song for Kids | Super Simple Songs Get the Super Simple App! ► http://bit.ly/TheSuperSimpleApp Oh no, it's raining! What will father, mother, brother, sister, and baby do instead of going outs...

Rolling, rolling, rolling!! Our infants 👶🏼 at our Kanata location enjoy painting of any type. Recently they did some roller painting. 🖼️ They dipped their rollers into some paint 🎨 and then rolled them across their cutout of a squirrel. 🐿️ This experience kept them engaged and happy. They used their fine motor skills, hand ✋🏼 eye 👁️ coordination, creativity and language skills.
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Wow, we hope everyone is enjoying this beautiful fall weather. 🍁☀️ Recently in our preschool classroom at our Kanata location the children 👧🏽 🧒🏼 had the opportunity to do some light 💡 table exploration. The light 💡 table provided an engaging learning opportunity while supporting diverse learning. It promotes fine motor skills, creativity, and imagination.
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This is who we are 🤪😂

There are no rules when it comes to art. 🖼️ Art is creative expression. The preschool children 👧🏽🧒🏼 from our Kanata location got creative last week. They created beautiful apples. 🍎 They used sponges, 🧽 paintbrushes, 🖌️ and even glue. This experience encouraged colour recognition, fine motor skills, self expression, and social interaction with others. 😊Pre,310

Ugh, broccoli!! 🥦 Does your child 🧒🏼👧🏽 like broccoli? 🥦 Well we found an art 🖼️ activity that uses pieces of broccoli 🥦 as a paintbrush. 🖌️ So if you have some leftover broccoli 🥦 and don’t want to waste it, why not use it for art for your child. 🤪 For this unique art experience you will need a piece of construction paper, 📄 paint 🎨 in fall colours, and pieces of broccoli. 🥦 You can either draw ✍🏻 a tree without leaves 🍁 or get your child to draw ✍🏻 it. Next have your child dip the bushy part of the broccoli 🥦 into the paint and dab it onto the tree. This will represent the leaves. 🍁🍃 When it dries the tree 🌳 will look 👀 spectacular. You will be impressed.
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Happy Monday TCP family and friends. 😊We everyone had a fantastic weekend. Did you and your family head outside and enjoy nature? 🍃🍁What did you do? 😊 Well last week the infants 👶🏼 from our Kanata location had the opportunity to play with “nature” inside. One of the educators 👩🏻‍🏫 brought some leaves and small gourds for the children to explore. What the children touch and pick up the gourds was very cute 🥰 to watch. 👀 Pumpkins are not something they see all the time so this was a new experience for them.
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Happy Monday morning, 😊 we are glad to see you here. We hope everyone had a great weekend. 😄 Last weekend one of the preschool educators 🧑🏻‍🏫 went for a walk and gathered some beautiful coloured leaves. 🍁The preschool children were lucky enough to be able to use them for art. They glued the leaves 🍃 on paper then sprinkled glitter on them. They were so sparkly and beautiful.
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🤪Sounds about right😜

Painting 🖼️ is so much fun!! 🤩 The infants 👶🏼 from our Kanata location are always so excited to do art. Recently they painted little people for art. This experience encourages hand ✋🏼 eye 👁️ coordination, fine motor skills, ✋🏼cognitive development, and creativity. It’s nice to see the infants being so interested in art and learning new things. 😊
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Hi friends, happy Friday!! With new children 🧒🏼👧🏽 in our programs come new experiences for the children. Recently the toddlers 👶🏼 from our Kanata location had the opportunity to experiment and explore the water 💦 table. The table was filled with soapy 🧼 water, 💦 and sea 🌊 creatures. 🐡🐠 The children 🧒🏼👧🏽 were able to manoeuvre the sea creatures 🐠🐡 through the water. 💦 This experience encourages eye 👁️ hand ✋🏼 coordination, pretend play, social interaction with peers, and cognitive development.
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What do you do when you have a abundance of leaves 🍃 in your yard? Well our toddlers 👶🏼 from our Carling location made sticky frames. 🖼️ The educators 👩🏻‍🏫 made frames out of construction paper and wrapped them in tape. Then the children 👧🏽 🧒🏼 carried their frame around the yard gathering falls items, such as sticks, leaves 🍁 and dried grass. This is a gross motor activity as well as sensory and nature exploration. 👟
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Here is another fun activity to do with your children 👧🏽 🧒🏼 at home 🏠 using leaves.🍁 Go on a little nature walk and get your children to gather leaves. Next give them a piece of construction paper and have them draw ✍🏻 some faces on it with all different emotions. 😄😂🤪😡😥 Now comes the really fun part. Let your child 👧🏽 glue leaves 🍃 on each of the faces creating hair for the head. Your child 🧒🏼 can use their imagination 💭 to create many different hairstyles.
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So much fun was had by our preschool children 🧒🏼👧🏽 at our Kanata location. The educators 👩🏻‍🏫 were give a large cardboard bus 🚌 to put together then the children were able to colour and decorate it. They worked together to choose who would colour 🖍️where and what colours 🔴🟣🔵 they would use. This activity kept them so engaged. The nice thing about it was we could actually use it to play in after it was coloured. 🖍️
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A little something for us to remember. 😊

The children 👧🏽🧒🏼 at our Carling location in our preschool program enjoy creating their own play using letter / number stepping stones. 🪨This experience encourages letter and number recognition and gross motor play. 👟👟Building a small pyramid and jumping adds a little risky play, which they enjoy. 😊 The children set up the stepping stones, 🪨 walk 👟👟 on the top of them and say the letter or number as they go across them. This activity also encourages them to work on building their balance.
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Hi friends. Happy wet Wednesday. ☔️ Now that fall is fast approaching, and we will be seeing more leaves 🍁 on the ground, we would like to share with you a fun and creative way to use some of those leaves. 🍃 Get your child 👧🏽 to help you gather some leaves 🍃 from your yard or even go on a walk 👟👟 to gather them. Next have your child 🧒🏼 glue the leaves 🍂 on a piece of construction paper. When the glue is dry have your child draw ✍🏻 legs 🦵🏽 and antennas on their leaf 🍂 bugs. 🕷️We think this is a great way to get the children 🧒🏼 👧🏽 to use their fine motor skills and their creativity.
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Shake, shake, the apple 🍎 tree. 🌳 Our toddler 👶🏼friends from our Kanata location made cute little apple 🍎 trees 🌳 for art recently. They glued the apples on the top of the tree, this giving the children the opportunity to count the apples 🍎 as they put them on their tree. This activity encourages fine motor skills, hand ✋🏼 eye 👁️ coordination, language development and social skills.
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Stop 🛑 wait. Don’t throw away all your unwanted paper. 📄 Our infants 👶🏼 from our Kanata location had the opportunity to explore some shredded paper in the sensory bin. They also had small containers, 🫙 and small plastic toys that they used with the paper. We are lucky as we have a paper shredder but to do this at home you just have to rip it up into little pieces. Even your children 🧒🏼👧🏽 can help with that. This experience enhances fine motor skills, hand ✋🏼 eye 👁️ coordination, turn taking and self regulation.
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