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healthy hearts
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Food Fun
Each new month means a new learning adventure at Adventure Academy. As we transitioned out of our Safari adventure we discussed the different foods animals eat compared to human diets. This week we studied the 5 food groups and encouraged…
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Indoor Safari
The laughing started when I announced that this weeks theme was “Backyard Safari.” An observation that “it’s a blizzard outside” meant our backyard safari would be indoors. Schools were closed due to the icy roads and blowing snow conditions, so some…
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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 ROARS
The sounds of music have changed to the sounds of animals as we explore the safari at Adventure Academy. As we transitioned into winter we discussed how our local animals used migration, hibernation or adaptation to survive the weather…
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Winter Sounds Like
The kids at Adventure Academy used their senses all month long and discovered “Sights and Sounds of Winter,” using the Mother Goose Time curriculum! Here’s a short video of some of the fun we had with the sounds of music: Discussing music…
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stuck inside
Rainy days and snow days kept us inside too much this week. Snow should never keep us indoors, but sometimes proper weather gear is forgotten during the weather changes. We’re wondering if winter weather is here to stay as we…
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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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