GSIS 10 Year Anniversary Yearbook: Memories | Page 13

Iona Smith crawls through the foor of
a play house. The ELC was home many
unique toys and learning tools for children to utilize.

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The ELC children learned many new things and
had a lot of fun playing with the toys. Cadence
Tam played house and ate breakfast, Emily
Stracke played with the rolling phone, and Cian
Harding had fun learning how to sit up and walk.

2012

Photo Captions

1. June Francois and Adela Hong form

various shapes with Play Doh. Children
were often encouraged to express
themselves creatively. 2. Adela Hong
plays in the sandbox with a shovel
and bucket. Often popular in the ELC,
the sandbox offered an environment
to build sandcastles and interact with
other children. 3. SEW was a time of
fun for the ELC kids, as they jumped up
and down in the bounching house. After exhausting themselves, Emmanuel
laroche, June Francois and Eliza Yoo take
a break and slowly roll up and down

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2013

Oliver Porter has grown up in
the ELC, spending much of his
early years playing with some of
his favorite toys and friends.

as their friends bounce around them.
4. Caleb Kim draws a circle around
HImself on a large piece of parchment
paper. In ELC, children are given many
opportunities to experiment with art.
5. Adela Hong decorates a wreath for
Christmas. Learning about holidays and
traditions was heavily valued in ELC.
6. Elliana Rains reacts to a bright flashing light during a color, light and music
exploration class. Children were given
many opportunities to learn about the
world around them throughout the year.

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Visiting the library is a fun activity.
Getting to pick out books to bring back
to the ELC is a great adventure for the
students. Mrs. Lamb the librarian always
enjoyed seeing the ELC children.

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Like many of his friends,
Ethan Evans enjoyed playing
in the winter snow during
the 2015 school year.

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Although the ELC had a h umble beginning with four children, it has grown
mightily in the past years. The ELC
now has 22 children. That is a lot of
laughter and fun in one building!

2016

Color and Light Exploration
ELC students were brought to the auditorium to explore the ways color, light, and
sound work. They first were given a basket full of battery-operated candles. After
they turned all of them on, they noticed all of the differet colors: red, green,
blue, and yellow. Next, they were given glowing braceletes. Afterwards,
all of the lights were turned off in the auditorium, and the students
ran around. They observed how the colors seemed even brighter without light. They also noticed how they could only see
their friends when they were close to one another. The
students played, laughed, and chased one another
for 30 minutes.

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