St. Albert Daycare Preschool and Out of School Care - Tot Spot Academy

TOT SPOT ACADEMY

Tot Spot Academy is an award winning Montessori inspired child care program in St. Albert. We are a locally owned and operated daycare, preschool and out of school care with strong roots in holistic childhood development.

VOTED T8N's BEST PRESCHOOL!

AWARD WINNER 2024

LOCALLY OWNED AND OPERATED

The owners are on-site daily, providing consistent and reliable team leadership. They are also heavily involved in giving back to the the community of St. Albert.

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Come take a look around and see if we are the right fit for you and your family

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Prekinder has been practicing writing their names!

Prekinder has been practicing writing their names! To make it even more fun they decided to try and make their names out of Playdough! It was an exercise for their creativity!
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Baby room is in the Halloween spirit! They had so

Baby room is in the Halloween spirit! They had so much fun sponge painting these candy corns to decorate their door!
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Our senior toddlers are having a blast with their

Our senior toddlers are having a blast with their Halloween theme! Their teachers made them this awesome sensory bin with a dyed chickpea base, the toddlers had so much fun swishing and scooping in the bin!
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Our Preschoolers had a blast creating their own sp

Our Preschoolers had a blast creating their own spiders made from yummy oreo cookies, whip cream and pretzel sticks! 🕷️

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The fall chill can’t keep us inside! The senior

The fall chill can’t keep us inside! The senior toddler class had a blast raking up the leaves and jumping into them!
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Preschool A is getting ready for Halloween! They l

Preschool A is getting ready for Halloween! They loved to use tweezers to pick up and manipulate the small parts in this spider web tuff tray! Tweezers are a great tool to strengthen pincher grasp!
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Our prekinder class is in the Halloween spirit! Th

Our prekinder class is in the Halloween spirit! These kids LOVE using trays and loose parts to explore their themes!

Did you know that loose parts are a great way to help children with their creativity, imagination and problem solving? Loose parts is a term that refers to any item provided that is open ended, they inherently make the activity child centred and led because the kids get to decide what the item is and aren’t directed on how to play with it it’s all up to them!
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Our prekindergarten class LOVES to visit our baby

Our prekindergarten class LOVES to visit our baby room, who could blame them? The babies are so cute!
Today they packed up a craft and brought it over for the babies to do with them! The babies loved having the prekinder class helping them stamp these adorable pumpkin pictures!
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Our baby class created their own personalized pape

Our baby class created their own personalized paper plate turkeys as well as they were introduced to sponge painting!!

It is such a fun sensory activity that has so many great benefits and is very entertaining for the little ones! 🤎

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With the leaves changing, our PreKinder class has

With the leaves changing, our PreKinder class has created their own handprint leaf paintings! 🍂

The kids had a blast independently painting their own hands and choosing which colours they would like for their leafs!

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Our Senior Toddler classroom explored painting the

Our Senior Toddler classroom explored painting their halloween ghost and masks with water colours and we’re introduced to sponge painting!

Sponge painting is a super fun way for kids to develop their fine motor skills and increase their hand-eye coordination!

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Our preschoolers had a blast creating their own cl

Our preschoolers had a blast creating their own clay turkeys! 🤎

The kids had so much fun molding the clay and adding their own personal touch of google eyes and feathers to their turkeys!

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Our kiddos LOVED riding on the little Obie train!

Our kiddos LOVED riding on the little Obie train! CN railroad created Little Obie (a scale model of a real CN locomotive) to teach kids about railway safety in a fun and informative way!
All our classes from baby room all the way to prekinder had so much fun riding around the parking lot!
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We had so much fun with our drumming lesson! The k

We had so much fun with our drumming lesson! The kids loved singing loudly and playing loudly!
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Today we remember the children who never returned

Today we remember the children who never returned home and the survivors of the residential schools and recognize the impact generational trauma has caused.
#orangeshirtday #truthandreconciliation

Our Baby class created their own rainbow playdough

Our Baby class created their own rainbow playdough!

The babies were very happy playing with all the different colours of play dough and exploring the different textures! 🌈

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Our Preschoolers created their own personalized se

Our Preschoolers created their own personalized self portraits while exploring their class theme of All About Me!

The children enjoyed using their creativity and drawing their own portraits of themselves with the help of a mirror! It is such a fun way to learn more about their appearance and practice their fine motor skills!

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Our Senior Toddler class explored a washing animal

Our Senior Toddler class explored a washing animal table top activity!

The children loved this interactive activity and are always big fans of water play! 🩵

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Our preschool A class is learning all about colour

Our preschool A class is learning all about colours and the colour wheel! They had so much fun using a new technique for painting (with q-tips!) and mixing the colors to see what new colours they’d make!
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We had a blast with Beth from @glowyogakidsalberta

We had a blast with Beth from @glowyogakidsalberta today! The kids loved learning new yoga moves, running the chime, and learning new breathing exercises! It was a perfect mix of play and learning new skills ❤️ Thank you Beth!
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