Extracurricular activities that really pay off

Extracurricular sports help children develop team building skills

Share Mother of three, your eldest child begins nagging you about sports. You were never athletic, more of the geek type, and your husband is crazy to think he has time to coach a soccer team. Sam just started kindergarten at the beginning of this month, and as if that wasn’t enough for you, he [...]

Dispatches from India: Learning from my Students

Us, the girls, and their housemothers on our first day.

Share Hello Our Kidders! It’s Carly once more, alive and online from India. My time in this mystifying country is coming to an end – it has been 40 long days of heat, noise, and experiences to fill three notebooks. I’m sure there’s another to be filled with the lessons and perspectives I’ve gained from [...]

Murals teach kids visual literacy

Mural painting in school hallway

Share Murals are a way of expressing what is big and bold and out of the box! Done right, they brighten every hallway, classroom or bedroom, but “creating the mural itself is the best part of all” says Maureen Walton from Maureen Walton Murals. Maureen is a professional artist that works with students to co-create [...]

Pictures With a Purpose

Photos such as this can be seen at the "Cancer Connections: Through a Young Lens" exhibition.

As the saying goes, a picture says 1, 000 words. Well, starting next week, an exhibition presented by St. Mildred’s-Lightbourn School (SMLS) will certainly speak volumes.

Cancer is a disease that affects two out of every five Canadians. It is possibly the only thing in this world that is completely and relentlessly unprejudiced⎯it affects people of any age, culture, race, sex, sexual orientation, or social background.

Sing for your (Healthy) Supper

"Get Stuffed" teaches kids the importance of eating healthily and locally.

There must be something about the toddler tongue that tells kids that anything remotely healthy is a threat to their very happiness – a danger to be avoided by any means necessary. Cue a scene worthy of any war epic: screaming, kicking, and crying amid explosions of milk and creamed vegetables that splatter against what used to be your spotless kitchen. On any other day you may be the commander general of the house, but this is one battle that’s tough to win.

Waldorf Art Tournament will fund trip

Share Every year at the Toronto Waldorf School, the grade 8 class come up with some creative idea to raise money in order to take a last journey as a whole unit before they all enter the high school stages of their life.  This year, the grade 8 class have come out with an awesome [...]

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