Author: KIDS Inc. (Karen Ohlson)

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09 Nov2016April 10, 2017
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Connecting Children with Nature

Connecting Children with Nature

A group of preschool children were shown a colour wheel and challenged to find an item along a nature walk in the community to match the colours. When they returned, they classified their nature items into different colour groups and glued them onto the wheel. Although they thought it would be easy to find an...

16 Sep2016November 14, 2016
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Nature’s Colour Wheel

Connecting Children with Nature: A group of preschool children were shown a colour wheel and challenged to find an item along a nature walk in the community to match the colours. When they returned, they classified their nature items into different colour groups and glued them onto the wheel. Although they thought it would be...

12 Sep2016April 26, 2017
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A Splat-tastic Day!

Painting, Pounding, and Power! 2 exciting activities were set up for the children for “Splat Day”. One was set up as a mystery for the children to solve – white cotton face pads were scattered around a white piece of paper. Plastic hammers, wrenches and sticks were placed around the paper for children to pound...

20 Jun2016December 21, 2016
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South Point Waiting List update

K.I.D.S. Inc. is opening its second location in January 2017 in École South Pointe School for infant, preschool and school age children.  The Online Child Care Registry (waiting list)  www.manitoba.ca/onlinechildcareregistry for our new site will be available on JUNE 30, 2016. Families will be able to choose the “K.I.D.S Inc. South Pointe” site on that date....

20 May2016April 26, 2017
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Emergent Culture

The fascinating outcome of emergent curriculum is that it is often occurs spontaneously and unexpectedly. Our Red River College student, Michelle, was wearing a pair of beaded earrings one day that piqued the interest of the children. They had many questions about where they came from. When she explained that she purchased them from a...