Garden View Village Winter Concert: February 19th

Our students were so excited to perform at Garden View Village on Wednesday, February 19. We have never had both groups of kids there before, but they did a fabulous job! We sang a number of songs (that we are still working on uploading for all to see somehow!) and all of our senior friends absolutely loved it! There was lots of clapping and smiling after each song! All of the kids agreed that seeing our senior friends happy made us feel happy too!

Snowflake Song

Donkeys Like to Munch on Carrots!

A round of applause!

Getting Ready to Zoom to the Moon!

Squishing Up My Baby Bumblebee. Ew, it's all sticky!

There was a crocodile, an orangutan,

Elephants Have Wrinkles Everywhere

A Final Bow

Once we finished singing, the kids were asked about their favourite thing about going up to Garden View Village and we had some really cute responses! Carson melted hearts by saying that he loves when the senior friends visit around the table with him. Hailey said she just loves seeing all of our senior friends. Fyn said she loves going down to the “restaurant” (the dining area J). Charlie said he loved singing the bumblebee song there, and Kaden agreed that he loved doing the actions for the snowflake song. Many of the kids said that they also really enjoyed the arts and crafts activities we do there.

Sharing Time

Once we had some time to share these responses, we went for a tour of the building to see all of the beautiful heart art the students made for the windows. It was just stunning and lots of the senior friends said that the hearts really brightened the place up!

Checking out our amazing Heart Art hanging up on the windows!

 

 

  

  

We will be returning to Garden View Village for our regular visits after Spring Break.

Here is the link to the video from our concert:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytRL626Vfq4

SNOW much fun!

With that amazing dump of the fluffy white stuff, the blue group just HAD to venture outside today! Check out their creations! There was some incredible teamwork witnessed today (and some amazing belly laughs and shouts of joy jingled through the air!)

Songs for our Garden View Village Concert- February 19

Our students have been singing their hearts out, practising for our concert at Garden View Village on February 19. Ask your child to sing some of the songs to you (here's the video links to the words/actions in case they need a little reminder!) 

Snowflakes song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQoJCpGoL2o
bears are sleeping
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwGb8P4Ytl8
action animal song- there was a crocodile
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AurNPX3XHxw
Zoom, Zoom, Zoom, We're going to the moon (they already know this one)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMJ9pZ9W7jc
Elephants have Wrinkles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMJ9pZ9W7jc

(Thanks to Julia for asking about the songs her son was wanting to sing at home! We love getting questions about what the kids are working on!)

All About Bears!

We have been learning lots about bears!

Heart Mapping at Garden View Village (Blue group)

We had a heart filler of a day at Garden View Village today! We had taken some time before going up on the bus to brainstorm some of the things that the students love/things that fill their hearts. They came up with a great list (as you can see in the picture below!).

After having our snack at Garden View Village, we revisited this list and talked more about the things that fill our hearts. We talked about how to cut out a heart shape and how to create a heart map, filling the heart with all of the things that are special to us. The students did a great job making sure that our senior friends, Dianne and Helen, had everything they needed to participate in our project. It was amazing to walk around hearing the students explain their heart pictures to each other, and the time they took to complete these projects reflected how important the students thought they were. It was really neat to hear the kids talking to our senior friends about what they like to do and what their family was like growing up. One of our students befriended Helen right away and helped her cut and draw her pictures. She asked questions about her family so that she could colour them in appropriately, and they were heard laughing together from across the room. What a marvelous sound!

 

Mrs. McLean and I wrote descriptions for each picture and were so impressed by the thought and detail they had put into these projects.

 

 

Once all of the students were finished, the put them on the ledge to be displayed, and then we took a picture of them with all of the hearts.  

We then took our hearts downstairs and showed all of the senior friends that were having coffee. The students did a great job introducing themselves and explaining their hearts to our friends. We overheard a lot of praise and excitement from our senior friends. Many were very impressed by how artistic our students are!

 

 

After talking to a few senior friends each, it was time to go back upstairs for a story read by Peggy (Ms. Kinsey’s mom!) before leaving. I told the kids a few times throughout the day how amazed I was by their efforts and Mrs. McLean came by later in the day purposely to tell us that it was one of her favourite days at Garden View Village so far. The connections that the students are beginning to make, and their increased level of comfort with our senior friends, are truly incredible to be a part of.