Easter

Easter is a special and magic holiday. Children were excited talking about Mr Bunny, wondering if Mr Bunny would come, singing Easter songs and preparing their baskets for our traditional Egg hunt. 
Well, as you may know, Mr Bunny came to St Francis and left a bunch of chocolate eggs for our Alpha children, and they had loads of fun!

Alpha Delta 

Alpha Delta´s group

Stella, Maya and Helena 

                                João Pedro, Felipe, Catarina, Maria and Mariana

Otto, João Pedro, Stella, Maya, Gabriel and Luiz Eduardo

Luiz Eduardo, Maya and Gabriel

Alpha Sigma

Alpha Sigma´s group

 Lucca 

Theo, Theodora and Felipe

Julia

Maya and Manuella

Alpha Omega

 Carolina, Cecília, Isadora and Alexandre

 Alpha Omega's group

 Cecília

 Maria Luísa

 Counting the Easter eggs!

Alpha Beta

 Tomás, Isadora, Laura, Ana Teresa, Julia and Felipe hunting for eggs!

Maria Helena, Ana Teresa, Isadora, Felipe and Rafael filling their baskets!

 Pietro, Isadora and Julia on the search.

 Yuri, Leonardo, Pietro, Maria Helena and Ana Teresa.

Julia, Laura, Manuela, Tomás and Yuri.

make believe

The Magic of Make Believe

Imaginative play is an essential ingredient for a happy childhood. Children who are encouraged to pretend are more expressive, empathetic, socially developed and they may continue to be creative as adults. 

Alpha children have the opportunity to explore different kinds of role play activities throughout the year such as role playing songs, in the home corner, during playground, sandpit and with the big blue blocks.

Playing make-believe games with your kids is a way to keep the sense of magic and imagination alive. Enjoy this time of their development in which they emerge into the dramatic play intensely. 

Here are some pictures of them enjoying 

some of these moments!

Alpha Sigma

Bernardo, Julia and André

Julia, André, Lucca, Bernardo, Theodora, Felipe, Lucila, Manuella and Maya

Alpha Omega

 Isabella, Laura, Fernanda and Cecília.

Fernanda as the waitress and Lucas as the costumer. 

Laura, Pedro Belli, Ben and Rodrigo.

Alpha Beta

Manuela taking care of our class baby!

Tomás, Maria Helena, Manoela and Laura at 

our classroom restaurant.

Alpha Beta classroom stuffed animals getting ready for lunch time!

Alpha Delta 

Mariana as the waitress, João Pedro as the client and Maria as the chef playing at Alpha Delta´s restaurant. 

Lunch time at Alpha Delta´s restaurant. 

Luiz Eduardo, Felipe, Ricardo, Otto and Maya.

Stella, Otto, Maya and Helena playing with 

dinosaurs in their caves. 

Jigsaw puzzles

Jigsaw Puzzles for Alpha children 

There are many benefits of solving a jigsaw puzzle, such as enhancing  hand-eye coordination, developing gross and fine motor skills, as well as working on cognitive 

and problem solving skills.

 It is important to know that children develop those skills specially when working with 

real jigsaw puzzles, therefore it is not advisable that they explore them only on 

Ipads and other technological devices. 

In Alpha classrooms, we have many options that vary from fitting into slots up to 

20 piece jigsaw puzzles.