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Screen Time: Scary or Necessary?

by Kelly Farrell | Feb 2, 2021 | Parenting

If you’re like me, you have likely spent your child’s early years making extraordinary efforts to limit screen time and avoid the 80’s “TV Babysitter”. Yet, here we are in 2021 faced with the necessity of doing almost everything in our days on a screen. No longer do...

5 Tips to help make Virtual Learning a more positive experience

by Kelly Farrell | Jan 11, 2021 | Education, Parenting, Private Tutoring, Teaching

Having the whole family at home and trying to engage with virtual learning and work activities can be beyond frustrating. Keep in mind the following tips to help make the most of your at-home learning experience and help encourage more independent learning skills from your child.

Learning Healthy Living In “Fun With Fitness” Class

by Brittany Ashmeade | Oct 29, 2020 | Healthy Living, Teaching

Last week our “Fun with Fitness” class emphasized the importance of healthy living. Our virtual lesson highlighted that healthy foods are fundamental to a healthy lifestyle and we need to be aware of the five special food groups in order to grow big and strong and get...

Learning Music in COVID Times

by Kelly Farrell | Oct 9, 2020 | Education, Music, Private Tutoring, Teaching

Music Education is essential and should be available to all individuals. In most of our schools, it is a subject/elective that students could opt for in the higher grades. To most individuals, an ideal environment to learn music or a musical instrument is a classroom or a music studio. However, given the current situation, learning music in a classroom seems to be in the far future.

The Importance of “Green Classrooms” During a Pandemic

by Kelly Farrell | Sep 13, 2020 | Education, Outdoor Education

Daily outdoor lessons in green spaces has the potential to boost focus, confidence and self-regulation in young children, thereby setting them up for greater academic and social-emotional success.

A Parent’s Guide to Google Classroom

by Kelly Farrell | Apr 26, 2020 | Education, Parenting, Resource Recommendations

Firstly, I want to COMMEND all parents and guardians for being amazing and stepping into this new digital world of emergency distance learning. This has not been an easy process, and I want to begin by saying a sincerest THANK YOU for all that you are doing for your...

7 Strategies every parent can use to support their child’s at-home learning

by Kelly Farrell | Apr 9, 2020 | Education, Parenting, Teaching

At-home learning can be a huge change from the daily grind of regular school but it’s not impossible to adjust and make the most of the experience. With the global pandemic of COVID-19 shutting down schools, support systems and businesses around the world, many...

Bridging the Gap with Virtual Classrooms and Online Learning

by Kelly Farrell | Apr 2, 2020 | Education, Private Tutoring, Programming, Teaching

COVID-19 has shut down school buildings around the world, but the teaching and learning goes on for students of Oak Learners. Children are naturally good at learning – it’s what they do from the moment they are born! Children learn language, culture, social norms,...