Folk Dancing!

The Artist In Residence program at Broadview is bringing us folk dancing from May 9th to 13th. We will have lessons from a dance teacher Monday to Thursday and then there will be a concert to present our dances on Friday, May 13th. Please keep an eye on this blog for all the details and come and see your child dancing!

***We now have the times for the performances. The morning class will perform at 11:10 and the afternoon class at 1:15. The performances will be in the small gym. Parents are invited to come and enjoy the children's performance. ***

Remember to order your carriages!

This Friday is the Royal Ball. The crowns and masks are here, but if your child would like to wear a costume, they are very welcome to dress up as princes, princesses, dragons, knights or anything else they would like. Let the waltzes begin!

Cecilia String Quartet

The strings are coming! The Cecilia String Quartet is coming with two violins, a viola and a bass . They will play and teach the children about classical music on May 5th at 9:45 in the school gym. I will be taking the morning class to hear them, and any afternoon children are very welcome to come with their parents and enjoy the concert too. We will be talking a little about the instruments of the orchestra and listening to lots of great music in class to prepare. It should be a lovely event!

Spring Celebrations

This week we will set aside Fairytales and talk about the celebrations of Easter and Passover. We will be reading stories and painting eggs and tasting matzoh and making spring crafts. Hopefully the weather will warm up and make things extra spring-like for us. If not, please send a sweater with your child as the classroom can be a bit chilly. As ever, please feel free to send in books or objects from your home about spring celebrations for the children to share. Thank you!

Earth Week

The kindergartens can participate in Earth Week at school in two ways. First, they can bring in a loonie (or more) to donate to the World Wildlife Fund to help save endangered animals. For every dollar they donate they receive a ticket to a draw for prizes.

Secondly they can join in our litterless lunch tomorrow by bringing in their snack in re-usable containers and taking home their garbage to be recycled or composted. Thank you for your support of these activities!

The Magic of Change

Dear Parents;

   We are making a special book about changes. There are many things in the world that change and we would like to learn about some of them. We would also like to celebrate the magic of change. Your child is bringing home a page to fill in with his or her idea about something that changes. There are two frames. He or she can draw something in each frame or put in pictures from magazines or other sources. Some examples of things they might choose are an egg in the first frame and a bird in the second, a seed in the first and a plant in the second, or some baking ingredients in the first and a cookie in the second. Then there is a sentence to fill in at the bottom of the page: A ____________________ becomes a ______________!

   Please take some time this week to talk with your child and notice different changes around them. Then help him or her to choose their favourite change for their page. We will put all the pages together into a book with flaps that lift up to reveal the changes. We will also be talking about change in class. Do these things change because of Nature or because people make the change happen? Please return the page to class by next Wednesday, April 20^th. Thank you for your help with this project!

A Royal Ball

The children are most cordially invited to a Royal Masked Ball at the palace, to be held Friday, April 29th. Dress in costumes, princess gowns or formal wear. Masks and crowns will available at the ball. There will be dance classes held in preparation to this glittering event so that the children may brush up on their waltzes.