Updates for the week of May 17th!
  • Virtual Drop-in: an Exciting Format CHANGE!
  • EECC's Annual General Meeting: You are Invited!
  • Family Science Fridays on Instagram!
  • More Science: Create a Bottle Garden! Walk Through a Sheet of Paper!
  • All Our Live Programming in a Single Graphic!
  • Easy Links to Playlists and our Social Media Platforms
  • Stories, Songs, Activities: YouTube links from last week!
  • Content Coming This Week!
  • The Ontario Parent Survey: How are Families Coping? Please participate.
  • Toronto Newcomer Day: May 25th!
  • EECC Board Member Recruitment!
New Format For Daily Virtual Drop-in!
a grey tabby cat and a light brown dog with floppy ears and a grey plush elephant and a toy school bus and a toy fire truck and a spider man and a children's book arranged randomly
Something we're trying out: children who attend our daily virtual drop-in are invited to share! It's still OK to attend if you don't have something to share! Drop in anytime from 9:30 to 10:30 am. Here's the Zoom link!

Monday: Pets and/or Stuffies
Tuesday: Share a book or song
Wednesday: Share something with wheels
Thursday: Favourite hats/shirts/masks
Friday: Superhero toys or costumes
Saturday: What did you see when you went for a walk?
YOU are East End Children's Centre's community, and this short meeting is for YOU! As a registered charity receiving government funding, we are accountable to YOU! We will open the meeting with a few Circle Time songs (because we're also answerable to your children!) followed by about 30 minutes of meeting business:

  • Review of the Annual Report
  • Review and approval of the 2020 Audited Financial Statements
  • Appointment of the Auditor for 2021
  • Election of the 2021-22 Board of Directors

Please send us an email to register.
Family Science Fridays!
Join Lisa on Fridays on Instagram for our eight week Family Science series!
Let's learn new terms like: Prediction; Experiment; and Results. Let's TEST out our predictions through Experimentation that YOU can do at HOME!

Last week, Lisa and Oden mixed primary colours! It was a bit messy!!

This Friday, at 12: The Water Cycle!
Check out these other cool science activities: Fit your entire body through a single piece of paper and create your own bottle garden! Click on the photos to link to instructions!
a white paper is cut into a zig zag strip and appears against a black background
a clear water bottle is suspended horizontally from twine and has plants growing out of the side of the bottle
Check out Science at Home at the Ontario Science Centre!
Science! Yoga! Music! Puppets! Art! Bedtime!
Find Our Live Programming Info All in One Place!
Click anywhere on the graphic to access a PDF with live links!
Easy Links to ALL our Recorded Content!
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Join us for Bedtime Live on Instagram every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 7 pm, or catch it later on YouTube!
Lisa re-uses an empty, shiny popcorn bag!
Art with Lisa: at the construction site!
Garden Chair Yoga with Gecy!
Sing Counting Songs with Bailie!
Clio reads A Color of His Own by Leo Leonni
Anna reads Seb and the Sun by Jami Gigot
Rashida reads Hassan and Aneesa Celebrate Eid by Yasmeen Rahim
Read One Leaf, Two Leaves, Count With Me by John Micklos Jr with Anna!
Anna reads Bird House by Blanca Gomez!
Rashida reads To the Sea by Cale Atkinson
Read Little You by Richard Van Camp with Clio!
Rashida reads At My House What Makes a Family is Love by Dee Dee Walter-Goodspeed
Anna reads The Bear, the Piano and the Dog by David Litchfield!
Make a 3D Watermelon with Anna!
In Bengali, Rashida tells the story of Alice in Wonderland!
Sing-along Puppets with Lisa!
All About Rain: Learn About the Water Cycle with Clio!
Read ABC Mindful Me by Christiane Engle with Lisa!
Coming Up This Week!
Books:
  • Chicken Licken (My First Readers - Chad Valley)
  • Me Too, Grandma! by Jane Chapman
  • Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans
  • Franklin in the Dark by Paulette Bourgeois
  • Turn Off That Light! by John Crossingham
  • Two Drops of Brown in the Cloud of White by Saumiya Balasubramaniam
  • Each Peach Pear Plum by Janet and Allen Ahlberg
Songs & Activities:
  • Origami Tulip!
  • Elephant Craft
  • Family Science: the Water Cycle!
  • Bengali Story Time
  • All Around Our World: Russia!
  • Yoga with Gecy on Instagram
  • Singing with Bailie on Instagram!
Important: A Survey Examining How Ontario Families are Coping!
computer monitor with the text Survey on it and a graphic suggesting questions beneath it
The Ontario Parent Survey is being conducted by McMaster University and the Offord Centre for Child Studies to measure and understand how families with young children are coping during the pandemic. The information collected for this survey will be used to help child and youth serving sectors ensure programs are responsive to the changing needs of children and families. It will always be important to understand child well being, resilience and struggle. Please participate!
We're Recruiting Board Members!
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East End Children's Centre's (EECC) Board of Directors is the official operator of EECC, and makes key decisions on programming, planning, operations, governance, fundraising and finances, among other topics. EECC stays community driven because local parents, grandparents, caregivers and other key community members volunteer to serve.

Learn more about our board recruitment and email us at eecc@rogers.com to ask questions or apply!
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