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Reimaging Celebrations (with a Healthy Spin)

FacebookTwitterPinterestFor a lot of us, the words “Let’s celebrate!” automagically conjure up thoughts of junk food, alcohol, and other unhealthy things. I asked my social network: “What’s a healthy celebration? What can we teach our kids (and our big kid selves)? What feelings and connections are we chasing/craving when we

Emotional Wellness

Guided Meditation for Learning to Communicate with Kindness

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FacebookTwitterPinterestSpecial thanks to Emily Behr, founder of Growga and board of advisors member for Take2Minutes.org, a nonprofit providing mindfulness activities to students and young adults for free. She sent over a wonderful guided meditation that’s beautiful and appropriate for kids of all ages. You can listen to it below. Take2Minutes.org

Art for Kids: Fun Art Projects

Masks & Mirrors

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FacebookTwitterPinterestKaren Gross, author of Trauma Doesn’t Stop at the School Door, came up with this project idea and graciously agreed to share it with our audience here on the kidCourses.com website. This project is quite versitile: The big vision would be to do an installation project with a wall of

Art for Kids: Fun Art Projects

FOCUS, Communication Tips, and Creative Activities for Kids with ADHD

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FacebookTwitterPinterestSpecial thanks to Nicole Garcia, CMO of Most Craft for writing this post! I first connected with Nicole when she shared a mnemonic with me: “Follow One Course Until Successful. FOCUS. My son deals with severe ADHD and ADD. He can lose attention on a task in a split second

Emotional Wellness

5 Resources for Helping Kids Understand Their Brains and Emotions

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FacebookTwitterPinterest#1 Watch No Drama Discipline for invaluable tips on addressing unwanted behaviors and what discipline is intended to be about: teaching and learning. #2 The Hand Model — Here’s a model that kids can understand and speak to you about: #3 Reason Goes Out the Window — Refer to this

Art for Kids: Fun Art Projects

Elements of Art – 5 Fun Projects for Kids

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FacebookTwitterPinterestThe elements of art are generally considered to be line, shape, texture, form, space, color and value, with the additions of mark making, and materiality. The following projects were curated from some fantastic people and organizations. They combine one or more elements of art into fun art projects for kids! #1 Nature Creativity (Texture, Shape,

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5 Acronyms and Rhymes to Help Teach Communication Skills to Young Ones (Pre-K / Elementary)

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FacebookTwitterPinterestWe recently crowdsourced to find out your best rhymes and acronyms for teaching communication skills to young children. Below you will find 5 great ideas! #1. Listen Like a Mouse Debbie Lopez, 20+ year teacher and tutor and Director of Content Marketing for Zivadream, an education advocacy and test prep

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Resources for Teaching Matrices

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FacebookTwitterPinterestMatrices are taught frequently in Algebra 2 and/or PreCalculus and are such an important and useful tool in solving problems. I’ve been creating several activities lately to teach matrices so I thought I really should share my favorites! 1. Guided Notes for Matrices: Like always, I like to introduce topics with