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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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Greener Grasslands

“Their grass might be greener, but our grass has snow on top so we can sled.” This was one response to asking what students thought when they heard the grass is greener phrase.  I love how many children chose to look at

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Safari Animal Adventure

  This week Adventure Academy has been gone on Safari.  Instead of hibernating like our local bears, we left snow filled northern-Michigan to visit the animals of Africa. We roared like the lions, sprayed water like elephants, wrestled with rhinos,

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Winter sounds like…

“Winter sounds like wind.”  “Winter sounds like Christmas songs.” “It is not ‘beginning to look a lot like Christmas’ though.” This is how the conversation led into “What happened to the snow?” “Is it spring now?” “Listen to the birds!” Listen

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Sense of sound

Our last article shared how LOUD our transportation theme got, but couldn’t predict the noise of “Orchestra” week! I’m sure anyone who has or works with kids can imagine though  –  the joyous noise created by exploring the sounds of

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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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Skins&Shells

I woke up to snow and realized we didn’t get through our “to do” list yet this week. This last week of October always seems to be a busy one, trying to keep up with work and home life while preparing for

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