Delisle Early Learning Center

05/22/2026

20 home-town Delisle Rebels football players, 6 yards of topsoil, 4 raised beds to fill, 1 afternoon spent shoveling, raking and moving soil --- priceless impact.

Our raised garden beds were filled in under two hours yesterday afternoon thanks to the team effort of this awesome crew!

Thank you so much Coach Anthony Dudar for helping us get this team together and to ALL Delisle Rebels team members who came out. Your assistance with this job is massive for us -- truly -- you have helped our Center out immensley with getting our growing project going and we are so

05/16/2026

We have some exciting news to share with you about a project we are working on at Delisle Early Learning Center…
Last summer, we grew a little bit of our own garden produce with the children at the Center. We used the wooden raised beds in our yard and some repurposed tires/smaller planters also to grow zucchini, spinach, lettuce, peppers, tomatoes, carrots, beets and even a few cucumbers. We also grew our own sunflowers and other annual flowers last year with support from donations of local community members and greenhouses.
We are looking to re-visit this work again this year and extend this learning experience with the children. In addition to what we grew last year, we hope to add in produce like potatoes, corn and herbs as well.
With tremendous support and sponsorship from Innovative Ag Performance Group (IAP) and their partner Adama, we have received funds that will allow us to add 3 large galvanized raised garden beds (one is shown as part of our post here.) This sponsorship was made possible by the growers in our community who purchased Adama products for their farms last season. This sponsorship has ties woven throughout our community and Delisle Early Learning Center is incredibly honoured to be a recipient for this contribution.
The addition of these 3 larger beds will serve a couple of different purposes in our play yard. First, they will allow us to grow a greater variety of garden produce that we can use as part of our meals and snacks. The process of growing food is something that has deep connections to who we are in Saskatchewan. Even more, there is something truly magical for children when it comes to growing plants/produce, etc. and we are excited to engage in this project together with them.
Second, these beds will help create some definition of space in our yard which will support our ECEs' work to create more intentional play zones throughout the yard for the children to engage in as they play.
This project could not have come to life as quickly as it has without the financial support we have received from Innovative Ag Performance Group and Adama. Thank you IAP and Adama – we are so excited to see it all come to life!
This past week, a team of our very own ECEs worked together to get our beds assembled and into place.
This coming week, we have 6 yards of soil coming our way to fill our beds. We have reached out to the Delisle Rebels Football team and we are looking forward to having a crew of team members join us for a few hours this coming Thursday afternoon to help move the soil into our beds.
Once the beds are filled with soil, we will begin planting. With the support of our Delisle Early Learning Center families we have strawberry plants, cucumber seedlings, bell pepper plants waiting inside our Center to be planted along side seed for snap peas, seed potatoes, jack-o-lanterns and more. We are looking forward to adding in butternut squash, tomatoes all donated to our project; we hope very much to have all sowed into their growing places before the end of May.
Thank you again, so very much to Innovative Ag Performance Group and their partner Adama; to the Delisle Rebels Football team, and to our own Delisle Early Learning Center families and staff. This work reflects the power and spirit of community in all capacities; we are incredibly grateful and so looking forward to the growing season ahead!

05/14/2026

With consideration for the weather forecast, we have decided to postpone our Friday BBQ with the Co-Op. With thanks to our wonderful local Co-Op, we plan to reschedule to an alternate weekday date coming up in June. Please watch for upcoming posters with our new date.

Take care - stay warm, dry and safe this weekend!

05/13/2026

To our Delisle Early Learning Center ECEs…

Today is a day to celebrate you and all you bring to your work with young children. It is hard to put into words the enormity of the work you do – you are instrumental to communities and families and most of all to children. Please take some time today to reflect upon and celebrate the talents and qualities you bring into your work you do day in and out. We are grateful for every single one of YOU!

05/11/2026

03/12/2026

Each day at DELC, children are invited into play in book corner with a collection of stories, pairings of stuffed animals and puppets, soft places to sit and a even a window that is at their height to look out of.

With children aged 2 and 3 years of age in this room, books chosen here include both board books as well as paperback. A favourite flannel story awaits this group each day as well.

The other day, one of our 3 year olds selected the paperback version of a favourite (and known by heart) classic - Eric Carle's Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See? The child held the book open and read part of the story aloud to a peer who placed the characters onto the flannel board as they listened. In their play, these children revisited an experience they are very familiar with from story time interactions they have been part of with their caregivers.

This cozy space is used throughout each day by our little ones and their ECEs. It is a place for gathering, story and song at times, individual play at others and also a favourite place for sitting and talking together in pairs and just being.

02/13/2026

Creating a Sense of Home

At Delisle ELC, we have been working throughout the past year working to enhance our indoor environments. Environment has a huge impact on how children engage into play and into relationships with others also. This work will be on-going as creating play spaces in elc settings is somewhat fluid depending on the children's needs and interests.

As we move through work with our enviroments, we have worked to weave in elements that create a sense of home. Our older preschoolers have a real tea pot and other kitchen materials to use upon child size wooden tables and chairs. Small blankets and pillows also dorn our spaces for the children to use throughout the day. Real picture frames and places to display artwork and photos are finding their way on to our walls also.

We just very recently added in donated chairs to replace other items that had reached the end if their life as well.

Children in elc settings like ours often spend large amounts of their day in our spaces. Soft area carpets, cozy chairs and real materials to use in their play help foster engagement and learning that within it has a sense of comfort and feeling of home.

02/12/2026

The children at Delisle ELC went Skating at Orchard Outdoor Rink!

Skating is one great way to enjoy our Saskatchewan winters. Learning to skate is also filled with all kinds of experiences with some pretty big concepts - risk taking, faliure, frustration, patience, determination, persistence, small wins, resilience, and joy.

Skating is a skill that is often tricky to learn. Children often step onto the ice with thinking they will be able to move just as easily as they do with walking/running on the ground.

Quickly, new skaters discover they have to find their balance all over again just as they did when they first learned to walk. It is a great activity not only for large motor development and movement, but also to help children develop a keener sense of how their body fits into, and moves through, the space around them.

When the children fall, they learn to get back up and try again... some are eager to get back up and going right away all on their own, others need extra encouragement and support. Several also often find ways to make the best of their situation by finding new ways to move around the surface, slithering, sliding, crawling, etc. around before standing back up.

We are grateful for this place and to be able to use it as part of our early learning programming. Thank you to all those in our community who brought the Orchard ODR to life, who tend to it and make it available for all of us to use ❄️

02/06/2026

Delisle Early Learning Center is a smaller child care center that provides care for children aged 6 weeks - 12 years of age.

We are nestled in the town of Delisle (located west of Saskatoon just off of highway 7)

We are seeking Early Childhood Educators to join our team!

If working within a smaller center and team environment appeals to you, we would love to meet with you!

Employment could begin as soon as February 17th 2026, but we are also able to offer flexibility around the start date for the right candidates.Delisle Early Learning Center is a smaller child care center that provides care for children aged 6 weeks - 12 years of age.

If a smaller center and team environment appeals to you, please send us your resume today 😊

12/02/2025

Delisle Early Learning Center is seeking Early Childhood Educators to join our team!

We are looking to add a full time ECE (7.5 hours/day), a part time ECE also (5.5 hours /day) and we are always looking to add casual team members as well.

We are seeking candidates that have good knowledge of toddler and infant development in addition to preschool development especially at this time.

If this is a fit for you, please email your resume and cover letter to [email protected].

*Delisle ELC is licensed for 38 children and is located 40 km west of Saskatoon.