DRAGONFLY COVE

Welcome to our Dragonfly Cove Care Home and our Nook and a Book reading corner. This blog is a living, growing record of our kiddos during this beautiful time in our lives together. This kind of blogging is as personal and intimate as writing a journal or diary. Memories and experiences are the greatest gifts we can bestow on our children. Here we document and share the unique experiences, ideas and inspirations enriching our lives and the children in our care. You will see various pictures of our kiddos learning through play and inquiry in every day life♥

A couple of ideas and quotes related to our blog and growth...

"Life isn't about finding yourself; It's about creating yourself."
"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass; it's learning to dance in the rain"

My passion and love of learning stems from a belief that learning is a life-long process. We strive to be open and adaptable to the many changes and challenges of everyday life. I try to model continued learning as the children see me reading, studying and implementing new, creative adaptations and theory to our home indoor and outdoor environments and lives. By giving them these roots, my hope is they will also follow a path of inquiry and know as students of life, they will always be learning and growing♥

Here is an excerpt from "How Does Learning Happen? Ontario’s Pedagogy for the Early Years" which directly pertains to our blog here...

"a means of sharing perspectives with parents and colleagues. When families and others are invited to contribute to the documentation and share their own interpretations, it can provide even more insights that children, educators, and families can return to, reflect on, and remember in order to extend learning."

We love reading your thoughts and comments! Thanks so much for embarking on this special, memorable journey with us... lots of love♥

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Thursday, 28 May 2020

Story time brought to you by our cutie in grade 1 ♥

Don't let that pigeon drive that big ol' bus ;)

As read by our sweet girl who wanted to share one of her favourite stories with her buds in quarantine ♥

Click the link :)

Story time, our channel ♥

Tuesday, 21 April 2020

The Earth Book!

Click this link to take you to the story read by PV Storytime!

THE EARTH BOOK by Todd Parr

The Earth Book

By Todd Parr , Todd Parr

Description provided by Scholastic Books... if you are able to, please purchase through Scholastic books to support our schools♥

https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/books/the-earth-book-by-todd-parr/

"With his signature blend of playfulness and sensitivity, Todd Parr explores the important, timely subject of environmental protection and conservation in this eco-friendly picture book. With an eye-catching cover to catch readers' interest, the book includes lots of easy, smart ideas for working together to take good care of the earth, from planting a tree and using both sides of the paper to saving energy and reusing old things in new ways.
Best of all, the book includes reminders for "going green" every day. Equally whimsical and heartfelt, this sweet homage to the planet is sure to inspire readers of all ages to do their part in keeping the earth happy and healthy."

Sunday, 11 March 2018

Fairy Tales and nurturing the spirit of lengthening days...

Our winter/hibernation literacy unit has come to a close as we prepare to welcome spring. We are once again so excited to continue our fairy tales stories! We usually turn to fairy tales between seasonal adventures. Fairy tales are always a good idea regardless of the season and expose children to worlds of inspiring, imaginative content to stretch their vocabulary! Poetry and fairy tales with rhythm and rhyme have many other benefits from an early literacy perspective.

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairytales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairytales.”–Albert Einstein

If you need a prompt to get the children to focus and introduce your story of the day, this song is a good one! It is also very appropriate any time you need them to focus on a speaker.

Circle time beginning song

(Sung to the tune ~ Are you sleeping brother John)

Eyes are watching (pointing to eye)

ears are listening (listening hand up)

lips are closed (finger to lips

hands are still (hands crossed over)

Feet are very quiet (legs crossed)

now we can absorb it

listening well, listening well.

We hope you are enjoying the lengthening days and the warmer temperatures... and as always, cuddling up and enjoying a good book is always hygge!

"Make books your companions; let your bookshelves be your gardens: bask in their beauty, gather their fruit, pluck their roses, take their spices and myrrh." - Samuel Ben Judah Ibn Tibbon

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