MAY 2025
With petals unfolding and sunshine stretching its golden arms, May tiptoes in with promises of warmth, wonder, and growth. As we welcome this blossoming month, we take a moment to reflect on the sweet memories we made in April—days filled with laughter, discovery, and the quiet magic of little hands learning big things.
In this month’s blog, our teachers share the highlights of April’s adventures—messy art, budding friendships, and moments of learning that made our hearts smile. We also look ahead to the joyful days of May: nature walks, celebrations, and the gentle hum of classrooms alive with imagination.
Here’s to another beautiful chapter in our preschool story.
A Special Message to All Families
We would like to gently remind everyone about the Church’s Memorial Garden, located between the small parking lot and the Church building. This beautiful and peaceful space was created as a loving tribute to those we have lost. It is a place for quiet reflection, prayer, and rest—an opportunity to sit in the sun and find calm amidst the busyness of life.
To preserve the sacred nature of this garden, we kindly ask that there be no bikes, tricycles, scooters, roller skates, or ball games within the garden area. The wide variety of plants, flowers, and trees are meant to be appreciated with your eyes, not touched or played with. We warmly invite you to sit on one of the benches and enjoy a moment of peace.
We ask that children refrain from picking flowers or climbing the apple tree, and that all visitors treat this space with the care and respect it deserves.
If you’re looking for a place to gather and play after school, we recommend finding a neighbourhood park to go to instead of playing in the parking lot and the gardens surrounding the house at the corner of the parking lot.
Thank you for your understanding and cooperation as we work together to keep the Memorial Garden a serene and respectful space for everyone.
Last Scholastic Order Before Summer!
Summer is almost here—let’s keep the learning going! Ordering from Scholastic is a great way to support your child’s early literacy skills over the break. Picture books and read-alouds help children develop a love for stories, build vocabulary, and strengthen letter recognition—all while creating special bonding moments. Even if they aren’t reading on their own yet, sharing books together lays the foundation for future reading success. Get your order in by FRIDAY, MAY 9th, and send your child into summer with stories they’ll love to hear again and again!
SAVE THE DATE - 4’S GRADUATION
The Rainbow Room will be holding their Year End Parties / 4’s Graduation on Thursday, June 19th and Friday, June 20th. Times to be determined closer to the date.
The Treehouse Room will be holding their Graduation Ceremony on Friday, June 20th. The fours that attend the Tu/Th class only will be asked to come to the Friday ceremony. Times to be determined closer to the date.
Guess what happens this month? BUTTERFLIES!!
We will get our Painted Lady butterflies soon. They will start out as caterpillars and will then change into butterflies! The children will get to watch the process and then once they have reached maturity, the children will release them into the Memorial Garden!
THANK YOU to everyone who came out to watch the Children’s Easter Services! They were so cute! Now you can check out what else they do in the classrooms by reading what the teachers have to say!
RAINBOW ROOM
Hello Rainbow Room families and friends:
What a beautiful April we have had: I wonder where the April showers have got to? I’m sure they’ll arrive sooner or later!
We’ve had a good month in our classroom, with a variety of themes. We celebrated Spring, Easter and the books and artwork of Eric Carle, particularly his books about insects.
When studying Spring, we set up the science table with a selection of fresh flowers, twigs and green buds, along with tweezers and magnifying glasses for the children to get a close up view of the beauty and new growth that appears all around us at this time of year. We also put fresh flowers in the water table; so fun and pretty. We had lovely purple playdough, and rollers and cutters to make flowery things. At Circle we learned about seeds, planting and growing, and played flower colour guessing games and “Guess Where the Bee is Hiding?” We took a walk outside to the Memorial Garden to find so many different colours of new flowers and even saw some busy bees and other insects at work. For Art we used forks to paint flowers, and made other flowers out of torn tissue paper. They are on the walls of the classroom, and really make it bright and Spring-like.
We spent every opportunity to practice our songs for the Easter Service, and had so much fun performing them for our families. The Rainbow Room teachers would like to thank you for your support in attending this milestone in your children’s educational lives. They each felt a good sense of pride and accomplishment and had fun doing it too. I’m sure you could see it in their faces when they found you and waved to you!
Celebrating Easter was an exciting time in the classroom. We made and decorated Easter baskets, decorated and painted and collaged eggs and rabbits; we heard stories about An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Chick, learned about bunnies, chicks and eggs, and played Sleeping Bunnies. On the day of our Easter Party, we decorated egg and bunny shaped sugar cookies with icing, sprinkles and coloured sugar.
When they were ready, we enjoyed them as part of our shared party food. Thank you so much to the families that supplied the food this time around. It is much appreciated, and wonderful for the children to try new or slightly different foods. Also on the day of the party, we had a surprise visit from the Easter Bunny! We didn’t actually see him, but there were cute pink and white foot prints and a note telling us that he had hidden chocolate eggs in the classroom, while we were outside! Thank goodness we had our homemade Easter baskets to help us collect our eggs once we found them.
During the last week of April, we learned about the books of author and illustrator Eric Carle. We focused on his books about insects, including: The Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Very Lonely Firefly, The Grouchy Ladybug, and ending with The Mixed Up Chameleon. In his artwork, Eric Carle used a lot of torn paper and tissue paper and lots of bright and natural colours. We used these ideas and style for our artwork during this week. We made tissue paper caterpillars, fireflies from paper plates, paint and tissue, and more caterpillars out of painted egg boxes. We coloured chameleons using block paints at the make-it-table.
The Chameleon, an animal that eats insects, leads us nicely into our next theme: Animals Around the World. During the month of May, each child will have the opportunity to present a short talk or presentation on their favourite animal. The teachers will link the toys, puzzles, art and activities in the classroom to the various animals that we’re hearing about. We’re really looking forward to this fun new way of learning through play.
Thank you for reading our Blog,
Rainbow Room Teachers
M/W/F Danielle, Carol and Mary
T/TH Vibha, Danielle and Monica
TREEHOUSE ROOM
Hello Treehouse families,
We are almost at the finish line preparing the children and ourselves for the inevitable day when we will say goodbye to each other.
The pupils are delighted to move on—they have no idea what awaits them! More work, less play, more responsibility, less silliness. They are more than ready. Their growth over the last few months is remarkable in all areas: self-help skills, social skills, motor skills, not to mention their confidence and ability to complete tasks that were difficult even a few weeks ago!
We have a few families left to enjoy Echo the whale’s temporary stay in their household, as well as a few friends who have not yet had their opportunity to bring their Show & Share to present to the class. Great job with your homework, dear parents! You did well—thank you for your support and time. The children loved their turns presenting to their friends.
April was a busy time for discussing countless topics. We learned about weather patterns and environmental changes in spring, animals and their habitats during the changing seasons. Earth Day turned into multiple days of discovering the meaning behind climate events, the cycle of water, recycling, and keeping our environment clean and safe. We have been working on a couple of secret projects that the little people are so excited to present to you that they’ve been asking daily when they will take them home. It’s nice to see that they care so much about their loved ones!
We also covered health and healthy choices in food, nutrition, the importance of exercise, resting, and taking care of ourselves.
I think it’s safe to say that the highlight of the past few weeks for everyone was the field trip to Thrifty’s. We had a great guide who walked us through every department of the store. Some students were brave enough to pet a giant lobster, and some decided not to even go near him. We also had the great fortune to visit the back of the store and ride the freight elevator! (Some children gripped our hands with white knuckles, but overall, everyone enjoyed the thrill.)
Friendly reminder—please keep sending your children in layers; the mornings are still chilly. They seem to be eating more too, so please keep some extra food in their lunch kits just in case… Thank you!
Treehouse Teachers
M-F: Gabi, Karen, Catriona Tu/Th: Mary