Our Teachers
Meet Ms. Michelle
My resume is long and boring until I get to the part where I really like to play and get messy.
You will find me elbow deep in Oobleck, learning the alphabet through art, and singing silly made up songs about the planets. I have been working with children for over 25 years and earned my ECCE certificate. With the support of my wonderful family we created MishMash. My three girls work summer camps and special events. My husband also known as Mr. Mash, keeps MishMash in great running order and helps bring my bright idea's to life. MishMash is all about getting messy, making mistakes, and being creative. That's how we learn.
Meet Ms. Kim
Let me introduce myself, I am the teacher with the magical hair. It helps me learn my colours. It may be purple, pink, green or blue, if you see it change colours let me know and we can learn a new colour together. I am working on the Early Child Care Education and think it is an amazing learning experience. I have two children of my very own, one is a boy and one is a girl. We go on adventures all the time like slaying dragon, tracking down dinosaurs, and seeing if we can find fairies under the leaves of beautiful flowers. I like to sing silly song, jump in really big puddles and play my purple drums.
Drum - didi - drum - didi - rum - pum - pum
Meet Ms. Meg
Hello all you MishMashers, I’m so glad to meet you. To start my story, you need to know where I came from. Here, in Squamish, I was born, got to be a kid, and now an adult here in Squamish. I’m also known as the FIRST. Yup, first born in my family, First grandchild and first Ms. Meg at MishMash. But I have an even bigger story, and you can’t tell anyone, ok? Every summer, I catch a small ferry, then a super big ferry, then a tiny boat and sometimes a plane, and go deep-deep-deep into the rain forest and visit with the trees. They are so old and so wise, there’s nothing they haven’t seen. I also get to have tea parties with the bears, the sea wolves, and sometime we invite the squirrels. The bears don’t like them very much, they keep stealing all the peanut butter sandwiches, and that’s the bears’ favourite. He gets very cranky if he doesn’t get one. I also like to go swimming with the whales. They are really fast for something so huge. Did you know they are bigger that a school bus? HUGE! I guess you could say I really love animals. I also have a dog named Cash and a cat named Clarabelle. They are like my children, well until I get to be a mum of my own one day. Do you know what else I love? Sushi. It could be my superpower I can eat so much. It’s a good thing I’m an expert walker. I walk everywhere. I just put one foot in front of the other and see where my feet will take me. My feet and I have been on so many amazing adventures together. Just ask me, I would love to tell you all about them.
Hello all you MishMashers, I’m so glad to meet you. To start my story, you need to know where I came from. Here, in Squamish, I was born, got to be a kid, and now an adult here in Squamish. I’m also known as the FIRST. Yup, first born in my family, First grandchild and first Ms. Meg at MishMash. But I have an even bigger story, and you can’t tell anyone, ok? Every summer, I catch a small ferry, then a super big ferry, then a tiny boat and sometimes a plane, and go deep-deep-deep into the rain forest and visit with the trees. They are so old and so wise, there’s nothing they haven’t seen. I also get to have tea parties with the bears, the sea wolves, and sometime we invite the squirrels. The bears don’t like them very much, they keep stealing all the peanut butter sandwiches, and that’s the bears’ favourite. He gets very cranky if he doesn’t get one. I also like to go swimming with the whales. They are really fast for something so huge. Did you know they are bigger that a school bus? HUGE! I guess you could say I really love animals. I also have a dog named Cash and a cat named Clarabelle. They are like my children, well until I get to be a mum of my own one day. Do you know what else I love? Sushi. It could be my superpower I can eat so much. It’s a good thing I’m an expert walker. I walk everywhere. I just put one foot in front of the other and see where my feet will take me. My feet and I have been on so many amazing adventures together. Just ask me, I would love to tell you all about them.
Meet Ms. Robin
Hi, you don’t know me yet but I am Ms. Robin the adventurer. My favourite pastime is traveling to far off places and learning new things. Like when I travelled to Vietnam. I was swinging threw the jungle, vine to vine when all of a sudden, a vine turned into a great big snake. He was so friendly he gave me a big hug and away I went. In Australia, I jumped off a super-duper high waterfall and landed on a dolphin. He was so nice he gave me a piggy back ride to shore. I was in this amazing place called Scotland too. We tried to find the Loch Ness Monster, but he was vacationing with his cousin Ogopogo that week. When I was in Korea I ate funny things like pig intestines, silk bugs, and chicken feet but my favourite adventure was in Thailand where I meet the love of my life, road an elephant into the sunset, had two kids, moved to Squamish, and became a teacher at MishMash. This amazing adventure is to be continued.
MishMash Philosophy
I have always believed in the power of self-expression and creativity, but now I would like to share my belief in the benefits of arts and crafts and it's abilities to get your children on the right track for kindergarten.
Whether your little one is heading to kindergarten this fall, or that big milestone is still a couple of years away, it is not too early to start thinking about kindergarten readiness.
Kindergarten has taken huge leaps away from what it was when I was a kindergartener. Gone, for many of our school districts, is the Half-day program and kindergarten being about school readiness, even for those of us who had gone to preschool. In those days preschool was about social readiness.
By engaging children in directed arts and crafts projects, you're hitting a couple of really important kindergarten readiness skills. "Directed" activities are developing a specific task that has step-by-step directions. Why? Being able to follow multiple part directions is critical as your child enters school. Children are given a set of three directions to follow in order. A child entering kindergarten should be able to follow two and three step directions with no problems. By having a specific sequence of how to do an art project, even if it's just trace, cut and glue, it is going to help to develop that skill.
Learning how to form proper shapes with objects and eventually the pencil will help form letters. Being able to understand that a triangle has three sides and mastering it with a pencil makes writing an "A" "W" "V" a piece of cake later when the time comes. Shapes are the baby steps to learning the alphabet.
Arts and crafts grace many major readiness skills: fine motor development, creativity, dexterity, communication, sharing, concentration and perseverance.
These are just a few of the benefits of Arts and Crafts. There is also the social aspect, becoming part of a whole community within our walls. Sharing, communication and above all else doing it in an environment that is fostering self-expression, uniqueness, safety, and a plain old fun place to be yourself.
MishMash’s basic curriculum will be drawn from the children’s interests and ideas shared in our classroom. All children will participate in arts and crafts at our table, which promotes teamwork, a social atmosphere, communication, stimulates friendships and gives a sense of belonging.
MishMash also bases the literacy and language portion of our curriculum around music and movement. Music is an excellent tool for children, as it develops neural pathways in the brain that can assist reading, writing, and language skills in these crucial early learning years. Our classes will create a comfortable and fun learning environment for students to build these skill sets and improve such things as cognitive functioning, motor skills, emotional development, behavior and social skills. Along with the knowledge of following and understand the concepts and rules of reading music which is the same fundamentals of following and understand the concepts of language and literacy.
Go ahead and make mistakes, that's how we learn.
Would you like to join our team? Please fill out the application form, questionnaire and return them to MishMash.
MishMash Employee Application Form
MishMash Employee Questionnaire
I have always believed in the power of self-expression and creativity, but now I would like to share my belief in the benefits of arts and crafts and it's abilities to get your children on the right track for kindergarten.
Whether your little one is heading to kindergarten this fall, or that big milestone is still a couple of years away, it is not too early to start thinking about kindergarten readiness.
Kindergarten has taken huge leaps away from what it was when I was a kindergartener. Gone, for many of our school districts, is the Half-day program and kindergarten being about school readiness, even for those of us who had gone to preschool. In those days preschool was about social readiness.
By engaging children in directed arts and crafts projects, you're hitting a couple of really important kindergarten readiness skills. "Directed" activities are developing a specific task that has step-by-step directions. Why? Being able to follow multiple part directions is critical as your child enters school. Children are given a set of three directions to follow in order. A child entering kindergarten should be able to follow two and three step directions with no problems. By having a specific sequence of how to do an art project, even if it's just trace, cut and glue, it is going to help to develop that skill.
Learning how to form proper shapes with objects and eventually the pencil will help form letters. Being able to understand that a triangle has three sides and mastering it with a pencil makes writing an "A" "W" "V" a piece of cake later when the time comes. Shapes are the baby steps to learning the alphabet.
Arts and crafts grace many major readiness skills: fine motor development, creativity, dexterity, communication, sharing, concentration and perseverance.
These are just a few of the benefits of Arts and Crafts. There is also the social aspect, becoming part of a whole community within our walls. Sharing, communication and above all else doing it in an environment that is fostering self-expression, uniqueness, safety, and a plain old fun place to be yourself.
MishMash’s basic curriculum will be drawn from the children’s interests and ideas shared in our classroom. All children will participate in arts and crafts at our table, which promotes teamwork, a social atmosphere, communication, stimulates friendships and gives a sense of belonging.
MishMash also bases the literacy and language portion of our curriculum around music and movement. Music is an excellent tool for children, as it develops neural pathways in the brain that can assist reading, writing, and language skills in these crucial early learning years. Our classes will create a comfortable and fun learning environment for students to build these skill sets and improve such things as cognitive functioning, motor skills, emotional development, behavior and social skills. Along with the knowledge of following and understand the concepts and rules of reading music which is the same fundamentals of following and understand the concepts of language and literacy.
Go ahead and make mistakes, that's how we learn.
Would you like to join our team? Please fill out the application form, questionnaire and return them to MishMash.
MishMash Employee Application Form
MishMash Employee Questionnaire