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1,2,3 move with me

It’s cold and “beginning to look a lot like Christmas” outside, but that shouldn’t keep you indoors.  Everyone needs the fresh air and there are snowy adventures to have! Adventure Academy is planning winter adventures away from our center and inside our

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Hands On Job Training

Art makes you smart.  That’s why we do a lot of hands on messy activities at Adventure Academy.  But arts don’t just include coloring – we paint, play with playdoh, play make-believe… we do hands on “job training” when learning

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Transportation Station

  The last couple weeks have flown by … or driven by … as we learned about “Things that go” and explored the vehicles used for different forms of travel and different jobs.  We played with school buses and police

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The power of pretend

Halloween treats led to lessons about healthy “foods from the farm” and the work of farmers, chefs, dentists and doctors to keep us healthy.  Health-ful occupations led to help-ful occupations and jobs of the hero’s that help keep us safe.  Children

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Healthful Hints

Fall is flying by.  October is over and with it the Halloween hustle for candy.  Many homes still report an abundance of candy and parents debate letting kids eat at their own will or distributing it slowly or trashing it

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Reading, wRiting & aRithmetic R fun

So many are in a race. An academic race for their child, their school, or their state to win scholarly awards.  Often people think this means to start children’s studies early on – and they are right – sort of.

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my A,B,C’s

Last month we focused on our friends and families and how we impact them and how they influence us. Although we talked about others – it was a pretty egocentric focus re-titled as “All about ME.” However the me focus

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Communication

Septembers focus was “me, my family and friends” at Adventure Academy.  We talked about ourselves, those closest to us, discussed extended family members, learned about stranger danger, talked about bullies … We learned how behaviors affect relationships and how emotions influence

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me & my community

Some of my students are interested “in a galaxy far far away.” The make-believe world of Star Wars is being watched and played out by this next generation and it awesome how much they learn about society and communities from such

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Making Friends

  I’ve been asked to write about “social stuff.” Most people count “social stuff” as making friends, and at “Adventure Academy” we make friends when we make a mess and make believe together.  Infants to pre-teens play together and learn together in

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