Camp Curiosity, The Curiosity Shoppe & Toddler Center
 
Our Kindergarten students have been working very hard on their word families which helps improve reading skills and increases their sight word vocabulary. Today, they were working very hard on "ing" word endings!!!
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Curiosity hosts students from all different countries.  We are doing our best to map them.  If you went to, worked at, or are currently with Curiosity.  Please check to make sure that your country is represented. 
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On Thursday (February 9), we held our annual Science Fair.  We were given a chance to see how creative our families and students can be!!  We would like to thank all of our participants this year- You made it a great night!!  Good work. 
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Nursery, Enriched Nursery, Edu-gym and Pre K all worked on the letter "P" this week.  They all celebrated with a "Penguin parade". 
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Nursery and Enriched Nursery worked on their fine motor skills while putting together their Ground Hog Projects. 
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TeachMe: 2nd Grade is the fourth installment in the popular TeachMe series of educational apps for the iPhone and iPod touch. TeachMe: 2nd Grade teaches six age-appropriate subjects to second grade children: spelling, sight words, long addition, long subtraction, fast addition and fast subtraction. TeachMe: 2nd Grade's unique TeachTech character recognition engine interprets a child's written answers, helping to reinforce writing skills while teaching math and spelling. 
Information and Pictures are from the Apple.com store website. 
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TeachMe: Kindergarten is an educational iPhone app which teaches four different age appropriate subjects to Kindergarten aged children: sight words, addition, subtraction and spelling. Parents can select which subjects they want, set different difficulty levels, and even choose specific questions. Parents can review performance history for each subject to check how their child is doing. 
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TeachMe: 1st Grade is the third installment in the popular TeachMe series of educational apps for the iPhone and iPod touch. TeachMe: 1st Grade teaches four age-appropriate subjects to first grade children: sight words, addition, subtraction and spelling. TeachMe: 1st Grade's unique TeachTech character recognition engine interprets a child's written answers, helping to reinforce writing skills while teaching math and spelling.
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*Pictures and info are from apple.com store
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After School Club- Mrs. Thomas, Mr. Nate, and Mr. Jeff
Homework, tutoring, and daily brain challenges continue to be the focus for the After School Group.  After "work" time comes play time!  THe children have been busy cooking, playing games- both inside and out, and getting creative.  Theis group really enjoys exploring various art forms including crayon batik.  Perhaps the favorite task so far has been "Create-a-Creature."  THe children used different art materials to create their own creature and then had to tell a story about what they made!  Gene Leffever (Interpersonal Dynamics) treated the group to a very special afternoon.  He taught the After School Club various games that enhanced sportsmanship and stressed the importance of each member on the team!



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Parenting Tips! 02/02/2012
 
Resolving Anger Doesn't Require Venting:

When we talk about calming down and controlling anger, we don't mean denying it.  We want to teach children a strategy to address their feelings and manage them in a healthy way.  Anger should not be stifled and ignored, but rage does need to be controlled.

Some people believe that the only way to get rid of anger is to drain it by venting.  Unfortunately, this venting doesn't take into consideration the person upon whom that anger is vented.  Venting anger is selfish and hurtful to others; it's a demonstration of a lack of self-control.

Exploding and venting anger often helps the person feel better, but allowing children to vent their anger doesn't teach them how to manage their emotions in constructive ways.  The solution is to help children learn to control their emotions and funnel the energy into constructive solutions.  The most important step is to learn how to stop and take a break from the situation to settle down and then reenter in a more self controlled way.  Wait for the child to calm down before preceding.  By dialoging with an angry child, you  may even get angry as well.

Information gathered from: Effective Parenting Tip- The National Center for Biblical Parenting
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Stephen Brown of  http://www.lookingglass-photo.com/ updated some of our photos of our facility.  He also runs our photography camp!
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