<![CDATA[Tree Frog  Daycare - The Frog Blog ]]>Wed, 23 May 2012 18:38:36 -0800Weebly<![CDATA[Sending Love to Rita and her Family!]]>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 15:04:03 -0800http://www.treefrogdaycare.com/1/post/2012/04/sending-love-to-rita-and-her-family.html  For those of you that remember Rita May McEwen from her time working at TreeFrog, and those of you who would just like to help a family in need as they prepare for a liver transplant for their year old daughter, please take the time to read this and visit the site below to show your support... we will be accepting donations at the daycare over the next while to send to Rita and her family as th...ey prepare for the time off work and travel required to be with their daughter through her transplant and recovery. if you would like to contribute, please speak to a staff member.
"Kaiya has a genetic condition, called alpha 1 antitrypsin deficiency A1AT deficiency (A1AD). This condition makes it so her body is deficient of anti-trypsin, a protein that protects her body from enzymes of inflammatory cells. In A1AD, the anti-trypsin that the liver makes doesn't work the same as it does in other people. This can cause build up of the protein in the liver, and of scar tissue in the liver (cirrhosis). Anti-trypsin normally protects the lungs, so people with A1AD are also more susceptible to having lung issues."
Sending TreeFrog love to all of you, Rita May! xoxo]]><![CDATA[Where's Doug?]]>Sun, 04 Mar 2012 17:54:21 -0800http://www.treefrogdaycare.com/1/post/2012/03/wheres-doug.htmlKeep your attention on our blog as we carefully track our friend Doug on his adventures around the world.  Ask your littles about where he is now;  they've been tracking his movements on a map in the big room.
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]]><![CDATA[Where Food and Art Meet! - thank you Ruud]]>Sun, 26 Feb 2012 11:48:30 -0800http://www.treefrogdaycare.com/1/post/2012/02/where-food-and-art-meet-thank-you-ruud.html
]]><![CDATA[It's Pink Shirt Time Again!]]>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:15:30 -0800http://www.treefrogdaycare.com/1/post/2012/02/its-pink-shirt-time-again.htmlIt’s Pink Shirt Week again at The Frog!
Get your pink shirt ready to send the message that "Bullying Stops Here!"  Wednesday, February 29/12 is Pink Shirt Day in Canada. 

Pink Shirt Day for Anti- Bullying began in February 2008.  As a staff, we decided last year that this is a great opportunity for us to open up the dialogue with the children at the daycare and spend the week discussing what bullying means, what we can do to stop it & how we can make others feel good through our words and actions.  The children rose to the challenge!  We were so impressed by the awareness and compassion these amazing little people displayed.  It became clear to us that this needed to be an annual event!

Although I was vaguely familiar with Pink Shirt Day before last February, it wasn’t until a friend sent me the link to the website that I really looked into it more closely.  What sent me to the website was her half-joking comment at the end "these boys must have had really good preschool teachers! "

Here’s a bit from the Globe & Mail article about these boys she was referring to (from the Pink Shirt Day website http://www.pinkshirtday.ca/) :

“David Shepherd, Travis Price and their teenage friends organized a high-school protest to wear pink in sympathy with a Grade 9 boy who was being bullied…[They] took a stand against bullying when they protested against the harassment of a new Grade 9 student by distributing pink T-shirts to all the boys in their school.
‘I learned that two people can come up with an idea, run with it, and it can do wonders,’ says Mr. Price, 17, who organized the pink protest. ‘Finally, someone stood up for a weaker kid.’
So Mr. Shepherd and some other headed off to a discount store and bought 50 pink tank tops. They sent out message to schoolmates that night, and the next morning they hauled the shirts to school in a plastic bag.
As they stood in the foyer handing out the shirts, the bullied boy walked in. His face spoke volumes. ‘It looked like a huge weight was lifted off his shoulders,’ Mr. Price recalled.  The bullies were never heard from again.”

As I looked around at these amazing children we spend our days with, and listened to them interact with each other, I could see the basis of her comment… This is the time for ideas like Anti-Bullying to take root! These children readily absorb what they are taught and integrate it into their lives. As their parents and their teachers we are collectively sending these messages to the children all the time: be kind, take care of each other, your voice is important, if something is bothering you use your words and tell someone so we can help you… the list goes on.   And the understanding the children showed us last year convinced us further- this is the time for the anti-bullying message to take root!  We are all excited to spend the week focussing on the strength of these messages and how, even as young children, they can be empowered to prevent bullying from starting.

If you are interested in more information about Pink Shirt Day, check out their website at: http://www.pinkshirtday.ca/  and on February 29, 2012  we encourage all of you to wear something pink to symbolize that we as a society will not tolerate bullying anywhere.
thanks,
lisa
p.s.  official Pink Shirt Day t-shirts are available through their website or at London Drugs, with proceeds going to the Boys and Girls Clubs and CKNW Orphans' Fund to support anti- bullying campaigns. 
]]><![CDATA[Happy Holidays!]]>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:58:01 -0800http://www.treefrogdaycare.com/1/post/2011/12/happy-holidays.html
]]><![CDATA[Here comes Santa Claus!]]>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 23:40:13 -0800http://www.treefrogdaycare.com/1/post/2011/12/here-comes-santa-claus.htmlThanks to all who celebrated the season with us at our Christmas party this year.  Fun was had by all - especially when those yummy cupcakes came out!
We'll be posting the rest of the photos of the party in the next couple of days.
]]><![CDATA[Self Portraits - Can you guess who's who?]]>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:18:23 -0800http://www.treefrogdaycare.com/1/post/2011/12/self-portraits-can-you-guess-whos-who.htmlJust look at these gorgeous faces! Can you guess who the artist is behind their self portraits?
]]><![CDATA[Our Unique and Beautiful Selves!]]>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:11:39 -0800http://www.treefrogdaycare.com/1/post/2011/11/our-unique-and-beautiful-selves.htmlAs many of you know, our last two week cluster of activities were focused on the glory of apples in the big room.  We made apple stamps, apple sauce, apple cake, apple juice, apple art, .....

Starting this past Monday our new focus is on the self.  We'll be talking about, playing games around and learning more about emotions and communication.  Here are a couple of self portraits that our amazingly creative littles have been working on.

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]]><![CDATA[Halloween Dress - Up!]]>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:09:34 -0800http://www.treefrogdaycare.com/1/post/2011/11/halloween-dress-up.html
]]><![CDATA[Pumpkin Carving]]>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:46:42 -0800http://www.treefrogdaycare.com/1/post/2011/11/pumpkin-carving.html
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