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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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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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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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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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Back 2 School

And just like that, the next school season has started. Every fall I find myself asking how summer flew by so quickly – but as we head into this next fall season I feel as if I completely skipped summer

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The ME in theme

  I just realized I’ve been trying to cram in all the activities I want children to enjoy before closing Adventure Academy for summer vacation.  I just realized that’s not the smartest teaching style as when we rush through anything we

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Summer School

As summer’s official start date get’s closer – so does my maternity leave! As the director of Adventure Academy I planned to have a year round program, but this surprise baby changed up this years schedule! Luckily she’s arriving during a convenient

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Transportation Station

HONK HONK rattle rattle CRASH beep beep … This song among others is stuck in my head as we drive full speed into the middle of a month learning about transportation.  This week Adventure Academy has been busy using “On the Road”

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