Wee Watch children all across Ontario spent the last part of April discussing Earth Day and how important it is for all of us to do our part.

Mahatma Gandhi once said “Be the change that you wish to see in the world”.   

On Friday April 20^th, children from our Cambridge location put that quote into action.  In celebration of Earth Day, a group of children got together and cleaned up a local park.  They talked about the importance of recycling, and so there were bins for both garbage and recyclable items.  They held onto some of their recyclable items so that that they could reuse them for their “Twice as Nice” Art Project.

The children were taught about how necessary it was to take care of the world that we all live in.   They were given a list of little changes that they could make at home that would make a BIG impact on the environment.

In true Wee Watch fashion, the week ended with a big bang as the children took part in an Earth Day Celebration!  There was a “Nature Scavenger Hunt”, as well as other activities and snacks for the children.  Fun was had by all!

March 15^th proved to be a fun time for the children in a Wee Watch Home in Kingston.  The playroom was transformed in to a beach scene with sun,
beach games, a pool full of fish, and some lively Beach Boy music. The children donned Hawaiian Leis, self-designed grass skirts and sun visors to enjoy a fun day at the beach.

Beach limbo let the children be active and use their imaginations.  They pretended to be a variety of sea creatures, walking like crabs, swimming like a sharks, wiggling like a fish and slithering like water snakes!

Hot Beach ball provided a great group activity, with everyone trying not to end up holding the hot ball. A pond full of plastic fish and fishing rods let everyone try a hand at fishing.

The fun filled morning of beach activity ended with snack of fish crackers and fruit around a very convincing paper cutout ‘campfire’ and listening to the story “ Just Grandma and Me.”

Providers and children who didn’t get an opportunity to vacation down south sure found a way to still enjoy some summer fun during the March Break!  Nothing gets the children’s enthusiasm more than to mix up the program and do something “out of the ordinary”.

On March 15, Providers turned up the heat, brought the outdoors in and had great fun at their Together Wee Can – Winter Beach Party!  What child doesn’t want a chance to take off their shoes and socks, wear shorts, bathing suits and flip flops and have fun playing with water and sand, all the more fun when the weather outside is cold.

Many Providers got their blankets and towels out, stuck paper suns on the walls of the playroom and planned special snacks of popsicles, ice cream cones, sandwiches and tacos and fruit kebobs.  Bringing the outdoors in sometimes involves much creativity on the Providers’ part, putting sand in  boxes and water in plastic containers, or baby bathtubs. Sand and water play is a great sensory activity for all ages and provides opportunities to promote
math skills, sink and float exploration, just to name a few.  Even the wee ones practice their fine motor skills by filling and dumping their buckets.

Some children in the homes practiced their front crawl and backstrokes during Simon Says while others dug in the sand for magnetic letters to spell words or to name the letters they found.  Thanks to Kinda for sending in the pictures of the children in “grass” skirts made from cutting up newspapers, another great fine motor activity!  What a great day for some summer fun until the real warm sunny weather is upon us!