We finally went to Joe's studio/gallery space

Joe is a good friend of Maylee's who runs a studio/gallery space on Ossington called Oz Studio. We'll sure be checking out more exhibits that are part of the CONTACT photography festival and learning to take photos ourselves! 

Discussing which artwork is the most scary. 

Storytime with Maylee, our favourite! 

Cycling little giants

We have been learning about bikes in the past few weeks. We've been talking about the importance and benefits of bicycles in a city like Toronto, we've talked about what bicycle advocates do to make biking safer and more fun in the city, we've also been learning about traffic laws and signalings that are important to cyclists. This month, we'll continue on this theme; we will spend a day learning about bike parts, another day doing bike maintenance, and maybe, just maybe, we will get to help put a bike together from scratch for one of our teachers!

Now that the weather is nice,
we're going to use the bicycle to get to places whenever we can.

Bike gang!

Suped up bikes!

Zines and chapter books

We've been working hard on making some books lately:

Some of us chose to work alone...

... others learned the beauty of collaboration.

Sharing the fruits of our hard work!

While we wait for the girls...

... sometimes we learn math through preparing snack;

sometimes we practice cutting;

and, sometime we play a game and have snack in advance out in the 'hood!

Planting a "forest" to welcome spring

On Tuesday, we finally got to bring together all the plants we've been taking care of at the studio to create a mini forest. There was "Prickly Caremel" from last year, the four plants we bought in Roncesvalle two weeks ago, and a cactus that showed up at the studio all by itself! We first created a landscape in Tofino's late home with pebbles that were given to us last week at a neighborhood lumber yard. Then, we discussed the arrangement of the plants and voted on whether to have a path through the forest, making the final decisions as a group. Filling the forest up with soil was a bit tricky especially around the prickly plants. We also learned that transplanting can be a very traumatic experience for plants. 

A still life drawing session

The new magnificent light shining on our forest!

401 Richmond trip

First, we dropped by Little Nicky's Coffee for snack time. 

It was fun watching the mini donuts being made!
We got a dozen of them to share. 

We explored all kinds of different instruments at Musideum.

Only if Maylee was with us to play this harp! 

Mark, who works there, was very kind. He demonstrated on many different instruments for us.

After exploring the rooftop garden, the glass elevator, and the scary basement at 401 Richmond,
we climbed and admired this public art sculpture. 

"There's chocolate gushing out!"

We baked some pretty healthy cookies to share with our families.

First, you combine 3 ripe bananas, 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract,
and 1/4 cup of warm coconut oil.

In a separate bowl, mix 2 cups of rolled oats, 2/3 cup of flaxseed meal,
1/3 cup of shredded coconut, 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon, 1/2 tsp of salt,
and 1 tsp of baking powder. Mix the wet and dry ingredients.
Then, fold in as many chocolate chunks as you'd like!

Since there is no flour in these cookies, they don't expand much at all.

We set aside one cookie for each one of our family members
(hot blooded animals included) before enjoying the cookies ourselves!