WE STRIVE TO SEE THE WORLD FROM A KIDS-EYE-VIEW
Bellwoods Playschool uses a child-centred, socially conscious pedagogy to engage young children in social and artistic thought and action. Using what the city has to offer, we empower our students with the knowledge to be socially and environmentally responsible citizens while they develop into explorers of their urban landscape.

WE THINK OF THE CITY AS OUR CLASSROOM
A valuable aspect of the Bellwoods Playschool program is to empower children as navigators of their city. We journey on regular excursions, by foot and by public transportation, to art galleries, museums and cultural events, as well as markets, parks and city landmarks.

WE KNOW ITS TAKES A VILLAGE

Our Playschool runs on a model that links a range of artists together to engage and inspire children. We like to bring in different perspectives and actively pursue a diverse teaching staff. As such, professional educators and artists trade chalkboards for personal anecdotes and textbooks for real life experiences. Together, they create an atmosphere that is at once intellectually stimulating and deeply personalized.


Our Community

Thursday, March 04, 2010

Birthday Ride

For his birthday, one of the kids (an excellent cartographer, actually) had a TTC route that he wanted to take to a candy store. He'd been to that candy store before but never by public transit. He never rode on the Prince Edward bus in all his 6 years and so badly wanted to do so. Alas, here we end up at the "candy store" . . . in Etobicoke.

We ended up spending the day at a SUPER park. Got up close and personal with mallards and swans, skipped stones on the beach shore and basked in the sun (camera died as soon as we met the swans). Only thing not so great thing about the day was that I left my pretty red mitts on the Old Mill train and one of the children lost a mitt to Lake Ontario. We kept cooing at the mallards and swans to fetch it for us but they never did.
- aa

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)