Follow the links below to read some of our recent documentation projects.
To the new friends who want to come to my school? I say Welcome, Welcome, Welcome. Come visit me, and I will show you everywhere. You can meet my friends. You can see where we learn!
To schedule a tour or attend an open house, please contact 604-377-8385 or email alderwoodinformation@alderwoodhouse.com
The teachers are nice, but sometimes they tell me what to do. They are very silly. They live at the school, I think, because they are at school before me and they stay at school when I go home. They sleep on the nap beds, but I don’t know where they would have a bath. Once, I saw a teacher at Save On Foods and it wasn’t even school time! I was buying chicken with my Mommy.
This is how you play with a new friend. You say “Hello, can I come play with you?” And they might say yes, or they will say “Not now” or “Maybe later”. And if they say yes, then you find out what they are playing and how to play. And if they say not now, then you be flexible thinking and play with a different friend, or by yourself, or with a teacher. And this is really important: if you don’t want to play with someone, don’t yell “NOOOO”. Just say “Maybe later, thank you.” Because that is your right to privacy but it is also your right to be safe with feelings. You can say no and not hurt feelings, you just have to know how. Like me!
Click to read more about our social literacy program!
We all have all of the emotions. Even Mommy. Even Daddy. Even Teachers. Everybody. And sometimes, you have the same emotions as a friend, and sometimes you have a different one. And sometimes you have 2 or 3 or 6 or 100 emotions all at once! That’s so silly.
Click to read more about our emotional literacy program!
We have the right to go to school. We have the right to learn. And nobody can take that away from us, not grown ups, not police, not even dinosaurs.
Click to read more to read our rights handout, explaining how our program uses children’s rights within the classroom!