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Have you tried out ABCmouse.com yet? With all of our time at home right now, this is the perfect time to get your kids learning and improving their reading skills.  For the little ones, ABCMouse is awesome!  ABCmouse.com is currently offering the first month for FREE!  If you aren’t familiar with this site, ABCmouse.com provides educational games for kids 2-8 online. It has a full online curriculum for preschool through kindergarten. After your trial is up you will be charged the $7.95 per month. If you love it then keep going! If not, you can always cancel. Just make a note on...

Life has changed drastically for families in the last few months, and with schools closed, kids are missing out on special end-of-the-year milestones like graduation. The good news, with a little creativity, there are a lot of fun ways you can make the best of it and still give these important moments the recognition they deserve. We’ve rounded up awesome virtual graduation ideas for everyone, from kindergarteners to high school seniors, to help you celebrate at home. See them below. Pre-K & Kindergarten photo: Shahrzad Warkentin Virtual Singalong Many preschools and Kindergarten classes typically mark the end of the school...

— Active history is proud to present a video each week from New Directions in Active History. The conference took place at Huron University College on October 2-4, 2015 and brought together scholars, students, professionals and community members to discuss a wide range of topics pertaining to active history. This week, Wendy Rowney, Assistant General Manager at Black Creek Pioneer Village and a member of our opening plenary roundtable, suggests ways to make the learning of history engaging for the public. Rowney shares insight from 2014 research in which she and a colleague investigated what attracted visitors to museums and...

The BBC has added a new, free section of its Cbeebies Go Explore app for Android, iOS and Amazon Fire devices that helps preschoolers unwind and de-stress.Your Mindful Garden has different activities aimed around three tenets of mindfulness: focus, creativity and calm. It is narrated by Stephen Fry and rewards children with in-app prizes when they have completed daily tasks.At first, they plant a mindfulness tree, water it and, once grown, it is ready to be decorated with items won through finishing the exercises.Focus activities include a gentle game of hide-and-seek with bugs, or picking up colourful scales with a...

A couple of days ago, when I refused to let my 6-year-old play more video games, he declared that he was having the "worst day ever." He didn't just say it, though. He shrieked the words before he stormed away and slammed his bedroom door. Yesterday, after I told my 4-year-old that he couldn't have another snack before lunch time, he squinted in my direction and told me—slowly and deliberately—that I am "a mean, mean mommy."How we set limits during this strange and stressful time is a theme that's coming up over and over during my virtual workshops and sessions...