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Reason for Rhyming

The kids at Adventure Academy are loving our current rhyming theme.  Mother Goose Time (click for information) has helped us learn all subject matters through nursery rhymes.  We’ve done ABC rhymes and 1-2-3 rhymes, we’ve used rhymes to discuss BIG

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Authentic Assessments

I am beyond grateful for the praise and recommendations given by providers and parents.  Mi Families (“my families”) LLC continues to develop more programs based on requests and recommendations. Mi Families continues to offer hands on trainings for providers, parent workshops,

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Transition Time

There are transitions from babies to big kids, transitions from one program to the next, and transitions from one activity to the next … There are many types of transitions.  Some students transition easily – for others transitions are a

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Babies to Big-kids

“I can do it myself,” is often heard as little ones transition – striving for independence.  Having a baby on site leads to lots of comparisons of “she can’t walk or talk yet, but I can…” Watching the babies become the

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busy birds

We’re only half way through the first month of the new year and 2017 is already proving to be busy.  Very busy.  Mi Families has been growing team members to meet the needs of our growing programs.  One of our

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A new year, new month, new week, new day…

Adventure Academy is back to our normal schedule / routine – but it’s a new year filled with new adventures and activities for our students! Every day is filled with learning from an education through recreation approach.  Indoors and outside

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New Year, New Lessons

Because of holidays and germs we had a very short week at Adventure Academy – so instead of sharing the lil’ we did I thought I’d share a lil’ about what we’re going to do! This video is a glimps

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Snow and School

Adventure Academy had a short week due to students calling in because of germs, snow days and holiday vacations… but we still managed to have a couple days of fun adventures and lots of learning. Some days we learned from

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bears & building basic skills

Big bears, middle bears, little bears … red bears, blue bears, green bears, yellow bears … 1 bear, 2 … look at all the things these bears can do. Bears hibernate in the winter. When it’s too cold to play

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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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