• StrongStart goes to the Community Forest!

    Our Duncan Cran StrongStart Field trip to the Community Forest was a success!  Children and adults had the opportunity to go on a nature walk through the forest, stop along the way to explore the plants,

  • Butterflies!

    This week the butterflies emerged from their chrysalis!  We were lucky to have them in the StrongStart/Preschool room to observe for a couple days.  Today we were invited to join the kindergarten classes in releasing the butterflies outside to find a new home!

  • Life cycle of a chick and butterfly!

    Have you ever seen the process Egg-Chick?  Or Caterpillar-Chrysalis-Butterfly?  When you come to Duncan Cran StrongStart, Miss Lana would be more than happy to take you next door to the kindergarten class to see!

  • Puffy Paint

    A couple weeks ago when it snowed again…I put out puffy paint and various items to stick on the picture.  A few days later a few adults and children were asking what it was and if they could try.

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    I read the book “Click Clack Moo, Cows That Type”,  by Doreen Cronin. Illustrated by Betsy Lewin .  The book tells the story of Farmer Brown’s cows, who find an old typewriter in the barn and proceed to write letters to Farmer Brown,

  • Where will they take it…

    So in honour of the Spring and Mud I thought I’d put out brown paint as the mud and animals.  I thought it would be fun to make muddy foot prints!  Well, it started out as animal foot prints and then the end result was unexpected yet beautiful.