Healthy Hot Lunch Recipes?

Any Parents Looking for Recipes for Healthy Hot Lunches? We’ve been getting lots more positive feedback about our Healthy Hot Lunch program, as well as requests for recipes! At the end of our spring camps, we’ll prepare some recipes to share with parents. Please contact us if you’d like to be on the list to…

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Book Review: Because of Mr. Terupt by Rob Buyea

Because of Mr. Terupt is a terrific book for developing critical thinking and emotional sensitivity Recently I reviewed Paul Yee’s books Shu-Li and Tamara (2008) and Shu-Li and Diego (2009), which are ideal for emerging readers and middle-school ESL students. In this respect, they’re pretty unique. Finding a book that takes these same readers to the next level is…

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Book Review: Shu-Li and Tamara by Paul Yee

Shu-Li and Tamara is better than the sequel! Recently I reviewed Shu-Li and Diego (2009), written by Paul Yee, which I believe is ideal for emerging readers and young ESL students. How does its predecessor, Shu-Li and Tamara (2008) fair? Let’s put it this way, it’s better than the sequel! Shu-Li and Tamara was written by Paul…

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Book Review: Shu-Li and Diego by Paul Yee

Shu-Li and Diego is ideal for emerging readers and young ESL students! In December, I reviewed the book Our Canadian Love Story by Linnie von Sky. That is a book that seems to be intended for very young, new immigrants to Canada. Despite its best intentions and cute artwork, I felt that Our Canadian Love Story played up the…

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FREE Critical Thinking Exercises for Kids

Want Your Child To Practice Critical Thinking? Look No Further! We’ve put together a series of free example critical thinking exercises for kids that you can practice at home or at school Instructions Each exercise consists of a picture and some questions. The pictures come in two formats: PDF and PowerPoint. If you would like to print…

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Part 4: Critical Thinking For Kids in Action

Critical thinking skills for kids in action In this concluding part, we’ll be using critical thinking skills to compare and contrast our two photos. After this, we’ll produce a logical and systematic write up. If you haven’t been following this series, here are the links to the previous parts: PART 1: CRITICAL THINKING: HOW A…

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Part 3: Critical Thinking For Kids in Action

Critical thinking skills for kids in action In this part, we’ll be using critical thinking skills to study a second photo. The ultimate goal will be to do a compare and contrast write up about these two photos. If you haven’t been following this series, here are the links to the previous parts: PART 1: CRITICAL…

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Part 2: Critical Thinking For Kids in Action

Following on from our previous blog post, let’s see critical thinking skills in action Here are two examples of how to analyse different materials stage-by-stage and then amalgamate that into a coherent argument. If you haven’t read our previous blog post, I strongly recommend that you do that first. As we looked at in that…

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Critical Thinking: How A Child Can Start Thinking Deeply

Here are some key strategies for developing critical thinking skills in children The great thing about critical thinking skills is that they can be applied to any subject, topic, or medium. Whether a child is studying a book, a movie, a song, a poem, or a picture, they can apply the same critical thinking strategies…

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Book Review: Our Canadian Love Story by Linnie von Rekowsky

Our Canadian Love Story. An Immigration Tale. Well, Sort Of. I first heard about Linnie von Rekowsky (now calling herself Linnie von Sky) and her picture books in a store. It wasn’t a book store, so I was intrigued. The store representative heard that I owned an educational business and thought that Rekowsky’s books would…

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