Christmas Spirit!

It has been a fun week seeing the children prepare for their Christmas concerts and performances in their holiday outfits and Santa hats. Art this week has been full of Christmas activities like snowglobes, snowflakes, cookies and reindeer ornaments. 

Many of the children have been occupying themselves at Junior OSC with Christmas colouring sheets. With Christmas just around the corner, the popular colouring sheet to colour this week seems to be one where they can fill out wish list for Santa, so they have been showing the staff all the fun stuff they hope Santa will bring them for Christmas.


Hope everyone has a wonderful winter break!


Pearlena

Seasons Greetings

With the holidays creeping up on us quickly, we at West Richmond have been hard at work making things festive. Many of our arts have been holiday oriented as well as even some of our snacks. The art projects have included baking reindeer cookies and Christmas coloured pin-wheel cookies. The crafts we have done with the kids have involved snowflakes, snow globes, and many different types of tree ornaments.
With all the seasonal spirit going on here, at West Richmond, I  decided to ask the kids what they thought about  the holidays. I know that their favorite  part of the holidays are decorating  the Christmas tree, opening presents, making gingerbread cookies, and the party crackers that go "crack". The kids here are ready to bring on the holidays!

ELIMINATOR

Hello Junior OSC family and friends,

 

On Thursday December 11th, the rain unfortunately prevented us from going outside and playing at the park, instead we went to the gym and played the game Eliminator. In this game each team tries to shoot balls into the other teams’ hoop and score points. The first team that gets three points which is three balls in the hoop wins. You also have to try to avoid being hit by the balls because if you do you have to go to jail and can only come out when another player on your team throws a ball and hits the post behind the other team.

Mentioning the game excited and pleased many children in the group. This was a game where the children played against the leaders. Near the end the game, the leaders got a little help from a parent who assisted us as we faced the passionate and fierce group of children. I was impressed with how well the children played and the amazing effort they made. They were so determined to beat the leaders and really gave it their all. It was nice to see the children working together as a team and trying to help free their teammates from jail and not being focussed on strictly scoring points. When a child was hit with a ball and sent to the jail they were never in there long because their teammates always helped to free them quickly.

 

Everyone had a great time and I’m looking forward to the rematch.

 

Erin

FUN WORLD

"WATCH OUT!"

On November 28, the Gilmore and Dixon students had a pro-d day and those attending junior OSC went on an outtrip to Fun World. For some, this outtrip was their first with junior OSC and more importantly, it was their first time on a school bus. Many of them described it as "one of the best days of their lives, especially since there were no seat belts." They had a great time at Fun World and behaved so well that once we got back to the centre, we awarded them each with a moustache sticker. Thanks to those who came out with us and we hope everyone had fun !

Cheers,
Vanessa.

"Ready, Aim, Fire"