How a day in Light & Salt looks like...

​Children will arrive in the morning on their own time. Every day they will have lots of options to play with, like blocks, dolls, loose parts and more. You can count on some environment music, our class will constantly have music as part of the day! Daily, they will find one or more invitations to play, usually related to their interests. An invitation to play can be all sorts of things! Could be a forest built with natural materials and some animal toys, or counters to be sorted by colour or by size, or different art materials to practice their name writing.
Around 8:30 AM the morning snack will be served. All meals will follow the Canadian Food guide, so they can expect fruits and vegetables, grains, dairy and protein. All children's allergies and preferences will be respected, but also is a great opportunity to try new things!
When the morning snack is done we will have a bathroom break, although any time will be a good time to go to the bathroom if needed.
Then we will seat together in the most comfortable way for each child to chat! We could read a book together, or talk about grandparents that are coming to visit. We could talk about emotions or even a super cool video about a polar bear caring for its cubs! Or we can just dance and sing together! That will be a time to let the children communicate their interests and work on expressing a vocabulary in a very natural way.
They will have more time to play, and while the children are playing I will be engaging in their play and observe their interests. As much as possible, parents will receive pictures and videos with their children, parents will be surprised to see how much learning is happening during playtime!
At 10:00 AM we will go outside (weather permitting). We will work in gross motor activities, like games, some balancing and jumping or just interacting with the backyard options. It can be gardening, snow or hula hoops and skipping ropes! If allowed by the parents, we will try once a week walk to the Sundance Lake Community (10 minutes walking) to have playground time and running on a green area!
Around 11:30 it’s lunch time! We will have very nutritious food everyday and parents will follow the menu to be aware of each meal. Then we will have another bathroom break and then resting time. This can be as long as 2hs nap or just some 30 minutes quiet time with books and silent material as puzzles and fidget toys.
When the children wake up, it is bathroom time again and we will have some short circle time with books or songs (or whatever is a hot topic for the day!). We will have our afternoon snack, that will be different from the one offered in the morning.
The children will find a new activity or invitation to play in the afternoon, or maybe the same  activity from the morning, if they are still interested on it. The learning will happen in the interactions that I will have with the children, when together we will find answers for our questions and hypothesis. Some days we can even try some cool science experiments to see what happens!
Around 3:00 PM is outdoor time again! We can both play with the materials and toys available outside or start an outdoor activity. For sure there will be more gross motor activities!
At 4:00 PM we will go back inside and have free play time while the children wait for the best part of the day: meet their parents for pick up time! And hopefully, they will tell you the amazing day they had, very excited to come back on the next day!