These pro basketball players are bringing you online educational videos that you can use at home to get your kids active while learning. The Harlem Globetrotters have already shared a few episodes on their Youtube Channel, covering everything from basketball drills, kids workouts, music and geography. What I love most
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Add Global News to your family’s go-to list of resources for fun activities and entertainment during the COVID-19 situation. Their new Family Zone offers plenty of things your kids will love. They can Colour a HERO or take a Home School Selfie and submit the photos to be shared during
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I distinctly remember my first taste of the famous DoubleTree by Hilton Chocolate Chip Cookies. It was this past December at the Edmonton Downtown Business Association’s Holiday Light Up event. The lovely team from DoubleTree by Hilton was there handing out delicious freebies. My girls each gobbled one up, and
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If you’ve tried an escape room in-person, than you already know that they are a fun way to challenge your thinking! Thanks to multiple creative people, you can try a digital escape room this weekend, without leaving the house (or spending money!) All of these challenges can be completed as
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Have you run out of your teaching brain power for the day? Let the kids learn about wildlife around the world while watching an engaging documentary on Gem, CBC’s streaming service. These documentaries are free to watch but do include several short ad breaks throughout the programming. Some of the available documentaries
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Fueling Brains is a personalized online platform that is offering FREE live classes every day to assist in early childhood education for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. Parents can also connect with other parents via online communities to support each other as you learn how to embrace early childhood learning at
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Keep the learning going, even when schools are closed with Scholastic Learn at Home! Scholastic is posting four separate learning experiences every day, with each lesson built around a meaningful story or video. Families can do them together or kids can check it out on their own. Just find your child’s
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You’ve probably heard the word “unprecedented” more times than you can count over the last month. But the reality is, there is no better way to describe the current lockdown imposed by the global pandemic of COVID-19. We are living through history right now and it is worth documenting. Natalie
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Just like other live sporting events around the world, the start of the 2020 Major League Baseball (MLB) season has been postponed. You can’t go to a ball game in the flesh right now, but MLB.TV has stepped up to provide archives of the 2018 and 2019 seasons FREE for
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Kids across the world are still stuck at home . . . likely, getting quite bored. Keep things fun and fresh and let your child take some drawing lessons from accomplished illustrator, Rob Biddulph. Viewers can draw along and create some whimsical animal characters, like this adorable little Gregosaurus. New
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