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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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Learning language – loving literature

  This month we have been focusing on Language development.  From speech to reading to writing we’ve focused on building a love for literature. Literature is beyond a school readiness skill.  Reading and writing are skills that will not only help

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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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Bees, Butterflies, Birthdays, Bubbles…

The sunshine has finally woken up our part of the globe! The earth around us is in BLOOM as flowers grow and we count the BUDS growing on our tree BRANCHES.  We’ve been observing spring growth and spring life by following

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spring senses

  We’re using our senses to find signs of spring around Adventure Academy. The last of the snow piles have melted and April showers will soon bring May flowers.  We’ll smell the flowers that bloom, listen to the songs of

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Art Smart

A beautiful picture is growing in front of us as we look out the windows at Adventure Academy.  Spring has finally found Northern Michigan! As the last of our snow piles melt green grass grows in it’s place.  Anticipating trees

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You’re a piece to our puzzle

Each and every child at Adventure Academy is an important piece to our puzzle.  A puzzle is something that “tests ingenuity or knowledge” and we gain more knowledge – together! When a child misses a session we miss them! We still have

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me, my friends and our feelings

  Tis the season for back 2 school subjects, study skills and test taking.  In believing that these academic achievements mean nothing without a love of learning, Mi Families went inside classrooms to ask students what makes them like school.  The number

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Dive right in

Our last article ended with thoughts on how Michigan summers are perfect for adventures. I stand by that statement as I stand in Lake Michigan thinking about ways to encourage you to jump in and enjoy such adventures with your

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