Halloween is a fun time for families, but can be a bit spooky for young children. These songs help prepare little ones for Halloween night and teach them what to expect! We sing all about trick or treating, sharing candy, and explore Halloween costumes.
To end up this Halloween Day, this is a great song for imaginative play.
Pretend you are in a storm as you listen to the song. You can sway in the wind and hide from the rain as you imagine what it would feel like to be a super spooky storm.
Super Spooky Halloween Storm
Friday, October 17, 2025
Autumn is here!!!
Let's go for a walk outside.
Read this beautiful book and sing with me!
Sing with me...
It's autumn and the leaves are falling down. We can't wait to see all the leaves change colors.
Let's celebrate the fall season with songs, games...and The Treetop Family
Every fall, I look forward to the beautiful colours as the green leaves on the trees change to yellow, orange, brown, and red. But why does this happen?
To understand why leaves change colour, you need to understand why they’re green to begin with. Most colours in living things are caused by chemicals called pigments. Leaves are green because they’re filled with a green pigment called chlorophyll (clore-oh-fill), which plants use to get energy from the sun.
Leaves contain other pigments too, but you usually can’t see them because there’s just so much chlorophyll. Here’s an experiment you can do to separate out the different colours in leaves.
What you need:
Green leaves
Jar or drinking glass
Isopropyl alcohol or nail polish remover
Wooden spoon
Absorbent white paper (you can use blotting paper, paper towels, or coffee filters)
Scissors
Pencil
Clothespin or binder clip
First, collect some green leaves. If all the leaves in your neighbourhood have already changed colour, try using spinach leaves from the grocery store. Tear the leaves into small pieces and drop them into the bottom of the glass.
Get an adult to help you with this next part. Add about a tablespoon of rubbing alcohol or nail polish remover, enough to cover the torn-up leaves. Then use the blunt end of a wooden spoon to mash the leaves and the solvent into a paste.
Use the scissors to cut your absorbent white paper into a strip about an inch wide and about as tall as the glass. Wrap one end around the pencil, using the clothespin or binder clip to hold it in place, and lay the pencil horizontally across the top of the glass, so that the bottom centimetre of the strip is in the liquid at the bottom.
Now, wait for about an hour. It could take more or less time depending on what kind of solvent and paper you used. The solvent will work its way up the strip of paper, bringing the different pigments with it, and spreading them out.
Pull the strip out and let it dry. The result should look something like this:
Look how much more green there is than any other colour! That’s because the leaves contain more chlorophyll than any other pigment. The other colours are always there, but you usually can’t see them because they’re washed out by the green.
In the fall, when the weather gets cooler and the days get shorter, plants stop collecting energy from the sun. They stop making new chlorophyll, and the chlorophyll they already have breaks down, so the green colour disappears. What gets left behind are the other pigments that you usually don’t see.
This kind of experiment is called chromatography (crow-ma-tog-ra-fee), and you can use it to separate the colours in other things too. Try it with black ink – you’ll be surprised!
And now...
Let's have a tender moment, a relaxing moment...so cute.
Saturday, September 6, 2025
WELCOME BACK, LITTLEONES!!!
Welcome
to the classroom!
We love to play, learn, create and sing together in
the classroom.
Hello
song
we
are getting ready for our first day at school! School is an exciting
place to be, with lots of new things to learn and discove
Now,
I'm packing
my backpack to get ready for school! What
about you?
What do you do early in the morning?
How
do you get to school?We can
talk about different ways to get to school: walking, riding a bike,
driving or taking a bus.
Shall
we play a game?
Simon Says ride your bike! Simon Says walk!
The
wheels on the bus
And be careful when you walk to school.
Red Light Green Light (song)
Today we start school, but...Tell
me, what day is it, today?
