As we head into the last week of July it’s time to recap our sun-fun and plan out fall-fun! Here’s some pics from the fun in the sun over the past few months … Our summer services were filled with…
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Fun in the Sun
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the 1st half of 2025
WOW! What a busy first half of the year. Mi Families facilitated gym classes, outdoor ed, STEAM programs, art and board game sessions, volunteer projects, plus tutor times and developmental therapies. We had many field trips and EDventures, our teens…
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Time to plan programs: Fall23
I thought we were still in the middle of the summer – so I was surprised to get messages asking what fall programs are planned. Then I realized next week is August and fall programs start in just over a…
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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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Safe-Summer
Adventure Academy is taking a summer break as I await the arrival of our family’s next lil’ adventurer. We will re open for child care and tutor time services next fall ~ and are currently enrolling tots to preteens (Discovery…
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Spring Sensory Science
This spring Mi Families has focused on a theme all about growing. From growing our team and programs, to pointing out the positive growth in each family and child we work with. One of Mi Families (“my families”) child-focused programs is Adventure Academy…
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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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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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