Cornerstone Family and Youth

Happy Birthday Winnie!

cfycoordinator — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 04:00:54 +0000

The week of January 17th & 18th the playroom children celebrated Winnie The Pooh’s Birthday! Every kid is in love with this cuddly stuffed with Fluff bear and why not throw him a spectacular celebration. Great excuse to decorate with balloons and streamers and eat some cake YUM! The kids decorated their own party hats and brought along their very own Pooh Bear or cuddly bear to celebrate!

Milk Crazy

cfycoordinator — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:24:28 +0000

We Started 2012 off in the playroom with Experimenting. We did a simple Milk , food coloring and dish soap experiment. Kids have pretty imaginative minds and love asking questions. Try it at home with your kids and I bet they will love it and have a blast. Afterwards we let the kids go crazy with paint brushed and paint away on some paper! Take some pictures of the experiment while it happens like the one posted and even frame it on your wall to remember the fun that was had.

Materials:
- Whole milk

- Food colouring

- Bowl

- Toothpick

- Dishwashing liquid

Instructions:

Pour enough milk in bottom of dish to cover bottom, add drops off different colors then drops of dish soap and watch the colors dance! so amazing.

2012 Changes to CFY!!!

cfycoordinator — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:10:25 +0000

We have started off 2012 with some new changes and new faces! Stay tuned for these changes that will be posted in the next week or so! We are optimistic and ready for change and new success with alot of hardwork and dedication and would love to Welcome all the new people that have joined our CFY family and can not wait to move forward full force! I would also as the new Coordinator like to send a huge thanks and appreciation to Jen Sedor for all her hardwork and 100% dedication she has given to CFY! I now have a new view on how much dedication she has given to these wonderful programs and hope to continue to have these programs avaliable to this community, and hope to run it just as well as she did! THANKS JEN you are the BEST!!!!

CFY Annual General Meeting

cfycoordinator — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:02:11 +0000

The CFY Annual General Meeting will be held at the Carlyle Public Library Noon-3PM on January 19th. Please RSVP to Jenn Sedor 453-2666 prior.

Merry Christmas & A very Happy New Year!

cfycoordinator — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 04:21:55 +0000

We had a fun filled couple of playroom days. The playroom was full of Christmas cheer! From the cute snacks provided by some moms, the fun crafts that can be hung on the Christmas trees, Christmas carols, and a good old book about Santa!

2011 has been filled with many fun days and we are looking forward to what 2012 will bring!

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year!

Please note that the playroom is now closed for the holidays. We will be open again Tuesday January 10th (1:00 – 3:00) and Wednesday January 11th (9:30-11:30). Hope to see you then!!

Welcome to Parenting

cfycoordinator — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:42:36 +0000

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R-tworx: Art to Celebrate Diversity

cfycoordinator — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:41:37 +0000

In conjunction with our Girls Circle / Boys Council courses running at the school we have developed an art program to mirror the subjects our students will be covering in class. These are all fun and fabulous projects which will include:

Crayon Canvas Art
Graffiti
Culture Tiles
Superhero creation
Larger cultural creation

These projects will help the children understand: Uniqueness, diversity, heritage, self-image and help them express their cultural self.

These sessions will be offered starting Thursday November 3rd – December 8th for ages 6-13 @ the Carlyle Public Library 3:30-5PM. The classes are free and drop in.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

cfycoordinator — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:07:27 +0000

Happy Halloween from the CFY Playroom. Remember to be safe and have fun!! Next week we will be back to eating healthy and brushing our teeth! But until then… enjoy these photos from our Halloween Party!

Dinosaur Dig!

cfycoordinator — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 21:28:00 +0000

This week was SO much fun. I had fun and I know all of the children did to because there is nothing more fun than DINOS!

This week we read the book Dinosaur Dig by Penny Dale. It’s the perfect book for small children because it incorporates counting, actions, dinosaurs and big machines – oh yes, which all make very, very loud noises. So our young audience was definately enchanted by this book.

We followed our book with a great little song:

I Wish I Were a Great Big Dinosaur (To the tune of the Oscar Myer Weiner Song)

Oh I wish I were a great big dinosaur, That is was I truly want to be,For if I were a great big Dinosaur, Everyone would run away from me! (AAAHHHH) You can also add: Stomp away, crawl away, slither away)

All the kids had fun screaming – but not as much fun as this weeks craft which was, who would have guessed, a Dino Dig!

This was a super easy craft that needed:

small tinfoil containers – we used mini loaf pans, but foil tart shells would have been great too -
Plaster of Paris – be careful as it sets super fast and gets hot while doing so – Adults only!
Small plastic dinos – the size is really up to you.
A pick – we used the blunt end of a paintbrush, but a butter knife would work too.

Steps:

Put the plastic dino or other item you want to “dig up” in the foil tray
Mix your plaster and pour immeadiately
Cover as much of your dino as you wish. We let bits stick out so our kids knew where to dig.
Let dry. If you mix the plaster properly it will dry straight away, but if it is too thin it could take a few hours. Very watery plaster will have to be repoured because it just won’t set!
Let your kids dig! My daughter saw these on my counter before the program today and was so excited, she wanted to dig all of them up!

Pets Week!

cfycoordinator — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 21:00:39 +0000

Oct 11/12 was Pets Week! at the Cornerstone Playroom. We read, “Curious George Walks the Pets” and introduced our newest friend to the Playroom….

The best part about our new Hamster is that you can take him home whenever you like! He also comes with a Pet Owner in Training bag that will help parents and children learn to care for a little critter.

After introducing our new friend we all sat down and made some Chia Pets of our own. We used knee high stockings, poured some grass seed in the toe and then filled with peat moss then tied the stockings, added faces and set our new friends in a tray of water. I will have to post later when they are all “furry”.