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3 Benefits of CoolSculpting

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No matter what we eat or how often we exercise, most of us have at least one area where fat deposits just won’t go away.  CoolSculpting helps to eliminate unwanted fat.  Continue reading to learn more about some of the benefits of CoolSculpting, including the fact that it’s non-invasive, safe and effective, and has long […]

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ES "Hopes & Fears" Conference

Welcome to a new school year with the ISB Elementary School family! 

To ensure our students and families begin a successful year in the Elementary School, we ask parents to attend a Hopes and Fears Conference with their child’s homeroom teacher on Friday, 12^th August. 

Conference signup schedule:

• New Families:August 5 at 9:00 am – system opens.  Choose a conference time between 1:00 pm and 4:00 pm.
• Returning Families: August 8 at 9:00 am – system opens.  Choose a conference between 8:30 am and 4:00 pm.
• Please note: the scheduling system will close at 12:00 noon on Thursday, August 11.

Please click here to book your conference now.

 

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PTA Meeting

Tuesday, August 16th. 12:30 - 1:30pm

Room 1218

Come along and join us for our first PTA Meeting of 2016-17!

 

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How Themed Spaces in Sunday School Help Children Focus

Beautifully designed themed spaces, whether in a Sunday School classroom or on stage for vacation bible school, not only engage children and make them excited to be there, but also help them focus. A themed space creates a cohesive environment by incorporating a variety of elements that allow children to focus on what is really important: learning. Here are a few ways they help children focus:

 

Cohesive Ideas

 

If children are learning about a specific bible story in Sunday School, such as Jonah and the Whale, they receive messages from the overall lesson and topic everywhere they direct their attention. The space allows them to keep their mind focused on the learning session no matter where they look because the theme runs through everything in the room.

New Life church located in Everett, WA understands just how important a child’s learning environment is. From the first moment a child enters the Kids Trek Sunday School or Children’s Church area, they are transported into an outdoor adventure where learning is around every corner.

 

 

 

All Around Fun

 

Themed spaces are more fun for children than a regular, everyday room. When they enter an exciting environment, they pick up on the lesson more enthusiastically and are more excited about learning. From registration, to snack time through to story time and interactive learning time, the space exudes fun. In fact, we have it on sound authority that it is hard to get them to leave when class is over.

 

 

 

Breaks Keep Focus

 

Children need frequent breaks from lesson time or they will become increasingly restless and unable to focus. In a themed space, even a break time becomes an opportunity for learning. As children move to a different part of the room and do a different activity, they are still within the same theme, which keeps their focus on the basic idea.

 

 

 

Reinforcement

 

If you read a book to a child, they will forget the story an hour later. If you read the book to the child four times in a row, they won’t forget it for weeks. The same can be said about lessons in themed rooms. When you teach a concept, story, or idea to a child in a themed space, he is much more likely to remember it later because the idea is reinforced everywhere around the room. The more you want children to remember, the more you need to reinforce the lesson in as many ways as possible. There’s a lesson in every bible story; they are full of adventure and excitement as well as fear and treachery – all the things kids experience at Kids Trek at New Life Church.

 

 

Planning a themed space can take some effort, but in the end, it is worth it to keep the children’s focus on the main event…the lesson.  After having a themed room for awhile, you will notice an increase in class attendance. Children will focus on the lessons and enjoy them so much that word will spread and more families will start to attend the church just because their children want to see the room!

 

 

 

 

To book a free Visioneering Encounter with us to plan your themed space, contact us today!

 

 

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This Is the Homebuyer of the Future

This past June, Mortgage Professionals Canada published their survey results on the Next Generation of Homebuyers; adults under the age of 40 who don’t currently own a home but expect to own in the future. If you are planning on buying, or help a child get into homeownership, these results can be an interesting comparison […]

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10 outdoor games to develop speech and language skills

It’s the summer holidays, we’ve had a bit of sunshine and the kids want to play outside.  Sometimes, with speech and language work, it’s easy to give the impression that children need to be indoors, sitting still and doing something paper-based.  This is not true!  There are so many ways to incorporate speech and language into fun outdoor games that you are playing anyway.  Here are 10 ideas.

1.  Simon Says.  For younger children, leave out the actual Simon Says part and just take turns to give instructions for each other to follow.  IE  Instead of saying “Simon says jump”, just say “can you jump?”  or “jump”.  This is a great way to develop verb vocabulary (“can you hop?  Can you skip?” etc).  For older children, you can introduce the Simon Says element, but also make the instructions longer and more complicated (eg “run to the paddling pool and then turn round twice”).  Give your child a chance to give the instructions too.
2. Skittles.  You can get some lovely sets of outdoor skittles.  However, if you don’t have any, you can use bottles.  I saw this great idea on Pinterest for bowling with big balls of ice if it’s a hot day and you fancy filling up your freezer with water balloons!  You can put anything on skittles – attach any pictures your speech therapist has given you and see if your child can name or tell you about whichever ones they knock down.  (Make sure you laminate the pictures first, especially if you’re using an ice ball!)  Alternative just have a pile of pictures and get your child to name or talk about as many as the number of skittles they knocked down.
3. Listening walk.  If you are walking somewhere and trying to keep the kids going, try a listening walk.  Listen for as many different sounds as you can hear and talk about them.  Can your child point to where the sound is coming from?  Do they know what it is?  What sort of sound is it? (high, low, loud, quiet etc).  What else do they think they might hear on this walk?
4. Obstacle course.  Set up an obstacle course in the garden.  Talk about what the children have to do.  This is particularly good for prepositions (“go over the chair”, “run between the paddling pool and the washing line” etc).  To make it even harder, blindfold one child and get the other to tell them where to go.  If like me, you only have one child, you can take turns with your child to take on each role.
5. Water guns/ nerf guns.  Most kids love these!  Try a describing game with these.  Describe something in the garden and your child has to shoot it!  You can always bring objects out or use some pictures as well to add more variety or make it harder.  If your child is practising speech sounds, get them to say a sound, word or sentence (depending what level they are working at) and get them to shoot it.
6. Hide and seek.  Hide objects or pictures around the garden and get your child to find them and name them/ talk about them.  Alternatively, get your child to hide and then, when you’ve found them, tell you where they were hiding.
7. Ball games.  There are loads of things you can do with a ball.  In fact, we have a whole post about these here.  Here’s one suggestion though.  Play a “hot potato” type game.  Choose a category, for example, animals.  Throw the ball to the next person, and say an item in that category.  See how long you can keep going before someone runs out.  You could play a similar game with words starting with a particular sound if your child is working on speech sounds.
8. Scavenger hunt.  Give your child a list of things to find from around the garden or wherever you are (eg find a leaf, an acorn and a stick).  Start with two things and work your way up to find the right level for your child.  Another way to do this would be to give them descriptive words instead (“can you find something spiky? something red?” etc)  Alternatively you can just collect together interesting objects throughout a walk and talk about them as you go.  Then you could play a game at the end – put them all out on the ground and describe one for your child to find.
9. Hopscotch.  This is another good one for speech sounds.  Put a picture on each square (or write the words if your child can read).  See if they can say the words as they play hopscotch.
10. Make maps.  This one is really for older children.  See if they can draw a map of your garden (or a local park if your garden is as small as ours!)  Then get them to use the map to direct you on a particular route.  You could incorporate this into an obstacle course type game.  EG they could also tell you to do particular activities in each place (“hop round the tree” etc).

What other outside games do your kids love to play?  How can you incorporate speech and language into them?

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