Brain Healthy Activities

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

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

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

Elements of Art – 5 Fun Projects for Kids

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,

Taking it Offline

Resources for Teaching Matrices

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