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JULY 31, 2019
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Guided Play Reaches Cul De Sac Park Rosanne Fortier News Correspondent Fun for free is the simplest way to describe Five Stop Park Hops. These events are also a way for families to become familiar with the parks in Vegreville. Cul De Sac Park is in a unique spot on the south end of Vegreville, just like the fun stations which were set-up at the third Five Stop Park Hop on July 26. Vegreville and Area Parent Link Centre partnered with Vegreville and Dist r ict Ch ild Development Coalition, Mental Health Capacity Building of Vegreville,
Community Association for Lasting Success to provide playful learning experiences which focused on this park’s early childhood domainemotional maturity. There was a sensory walk station, water table which had color balls that had faces on them that represented different emotions. There were questions on them like how many blues did the children find and what makes them sad. Another area was set-up with a wheel or emotions board, a mad light board which told a fun story and had different emotional words which included
happy, sad, or mad where the children had to fill this out and create a sentence to finish the story. For the younger children, there were emotional faces for this activity. Boxes were available so children could create a fort or invent whatever they wanted to with it. Another station had all the supplies children needed to create their own Zen garden. Like all park hops, this program ended with cooperative play games, songs, and the children had a story read to them. Prizes, snacks, and water were available too.
Children try out the sensory walk. (Rosanne Fortier/photo)
Children play with the balls that had emotions written on them. (Rosanne Fortier/photo)
STEAM at the Library Rosanne Fortier News Correspondent Getting children interested in science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics became easy at the STEAM program for children from eight to 12 years old which was offered once-a-week on Thursday from July 4 to August 1 at Vegreville Centennial Library. The STEAM program was offered once-a-week on Thursday where it steamed in on July 4 with a science
project of oobleck. For July 11, children participated in a secret code building project and made stereoscopes for the technology session, on July 18, for the engineering program they built bridges with Popsicle sticks to see which ones would hold the most weight. At the art program on July 25, the kids learned how to create color spreading sea horses, and a project where they drew 3-D pictures of their hands. The final session was on August 1 which will feature a mathematics project.
Children discuss how to create the color spreading sea horses project. (Rosanne Fortier/photo)
