Springdale Learning Centre

🌸 SLC Spring Break Camp is coming! 🌸
Looking for a fun, active, and creative way for your child to spend Spring Break? Join us for a week packed with movement, STEAM, and arts & crafts in a safe and engaging environment!

📍 Location: Robert J. Lee Public School
📅 Dates: March 16–20, 2026
⏰ Time: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
👧🧒 Ages: 4–12 years

✨ Activities include:
• Movement & active play
• STEAM exploration
• Arts & crafts
• Team games & social fun

⚠️ Limited spots available!
📩 For more information email [email protected] or call 905-790-6958

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Hello friends and families! Did you miss us? It has been a while, as we have been busy in our classroom learning something new everyday! Recently we have been focusing on our routine and structure of our classroom in the preschool room. With kindergarten just around the corner, we are starting to engage in table top activities a lot more! Here our friends are engaging in stationary play! Each table has an exciting new activity to try! Some times our friends enjoy a particular activity and we display more of it on the tables for everyone to engage!

Come station with us!

Dancing drawings! Our Before & After School Program friends had a blast with this cool activity. They drew figures with dry erase markers in the bin as well as paper plates. Then they poured a little bit of water and began to observe. The drawings began dancing. This was a neat way for our friends to further their learning in terms of understanding how to hypothesize and take measurements!

It was a very interactive experience led by our friends while our educators stood back and observed as well as ask open-ended questions, such as “what do you think will happen?”

During outdoor play, our educators in the Preschool room made an observation. The children were taking toy cars and trucks and racing them up and down. Each child had a car or truck in hand, and were racing each other. The educators incorporated this interest into their program plan to enhance children’s pattern, categorizing and number counting skills. They also brought this interest out in creative expression, while painting using toy cars. The children were actively engaged as they were enjoying utilizing the toy cars. While it may simply look like play from an outsiders perspective, we see fine motor grip skills, patterning skills, learning how to count and categorize. During this activity, educators engaged in meaningful conversations asking the children open-ended questions such as “what are you painting”, or “why are you placing the car here”? When children engage in conversation during play, they are enhancing communication skills amongst peers.

When you see your child racing a car around at home, ask them questions like “where are you going, what car is that, how far will you go?”.

Happy ECE appreciation day! SLC, is very grateful to all the staff members and colleagues that provide quality care to our community’s children! A huge shoutout and thanks to all the ECE’s out there for all that you do!