Erica, Author at Ahimsa Kids: Set Teachers

On Set

January 22, 2015 by Erica

Over the years, our teachers have enjoyed being a part of a wide variety of production crews. Shows that our teachers have worked on as tutors on set in BC and elsewhere in Canada include:

Gourmet Detective
Strange Empire
The Last Halloween
Narrow Bridge
Barricade
Donovan’s Echo
Untitled J.L.H. Project
Sucker Punch
Sins of the Mother
Fringe
Charlie St Cloud
Movie Surfers
Courage
Sanctuary
Icarus
Harper’s Island
Angel and the Badman
Supernatural
Triple Dog
Stargate Atlantis
Dim Sum Funeral
Race for a Cure
Ice Blues
Eureka
ZIXX Level III
Nobody
To Love and Die in LA
Sandlot III
Undercover
Battlestar Galactica
Masters of Horror
Augusta Gone
Little Romeo
Genius
Little Men
Jacob Two Two
Storm of the Century
Noddy and Friends
When Husbands Cheat
A Cool Dry Place
Things We’ve Lost in the Fire
Martian Child
Smallville
Behind the Camera:The Unauthorized Story of ‘Diff’rent Strokes’
Mem-(o)-re
Just A Phase
Life or Something Like It
Air Bud-7th Inning Fetch
Maybe I’m Adopted
MVP II
Boston Market Commercial
Dark Angel
The Fearing Mind
The Ultimate Christmas Present
Falling in Love…Again
Holiday Heart
Secret Agent Man

Production Services

January 22, 2015 by Erica

Ahimsa Kids is a full service set tutoring agency in BC that caters to the needs of production and child actors in British Columbia. We offer our services for:

set tutoring
child coordinating

Filming in Golden Ears Provincial Park: Beauty is one of the blessings of being a set teaching agency in Vancouver!

Our Service to Production
We provide production with:

Certified teachers whom have undergone criminal record checks.
Free consultation prior to and during production with regards to meeting health, welfare and schooling requirements for minors and school aged youth.
Communication with the parents and school with regards to the child’s schooling.
Organized paperwork for production on schooling.
Substitute teachers in the event of an illness.
School supplies.

Our Teachers
We provide production with a network of teachers who:

Are certified in BC, Alberta, Ontario and the United States, including a California Studio Teacher.
Have undergone criminal record checks.
Have a full complement of specialties including French, French Immersion, Japanese, Science, Math, Business, Language Arts, Social Studies, Drama, Fine Arts, PE, and the middle and primary years.
Are trained with production and set knowledge.

Commonly Asked Questions:

Ahimsa Kids provides qualified teachers for film and TV productions that hire school age actors. We have a team of set tutors in BC who are passionate about education, love to teach, and understand day to day life on a set. They work with the child, their family, and the production to ensure that the child has the best possible experience on-set, while keeping up in their school work and fulfilling the role they were hired for. These teachers have undergone a criminal record check and are certified in British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, and the United States, including a California Certified Studio Teacher. They are also willing to travel for productions filming on location elsewhere. To learn about our individual teachers, please click on the links above to see their bios.

Happy Holidays from Ahimsa Kids, Live From Burnaby Village Museum

December 28, 2010 by Erica Leave a Comment

The winter holidays to us at Ahimsa Kids are all about spending time having fun and laughing with folks we love. It is for this reason that Lori and I take a break from the pre-holiday craziness each year to be goofy and shoot a holiday card together. We admit, we add quite a bit of fun on a regular basis while working together at our set tutoring agency in Vancouver, but we love to step it up for special occasions!

2010 Holiday Card — A typical bit of Erica / Lori silliness, as caught by the talented Jeremy Lim.

This year’s shoot was even more delightful than usual, as we were fortunate enough to shoot at the Burnaby Village Museum, which is such a magical place. What an absolutely perfect location for two gals that have a love for hands-on learning and engaging in creative ways! If you haven’t been, you must go. Burnaby Village Museum is a living history museum, with historic interpretors dressed in period clothing there to spin tales for you of BC’s history. Having worked in such environments in my teens and twenties, I can tell you I view such sites with a discerning eye and am not easily impressed. Burnaby Village Museum impresses me. It is a place of magic.

To experience a bit of the magic yourself you can visit the Museum from noon until 8 pm each day, up until January 2nd, 2011. Who knows you may even see Rudolph. He was after all created there.

After that the Museum doesn’t reopen until May 2011, except for special event openings. Hoping they host their scavenger hunt again in February and March.

Ooey Gooey Good Animal Track Activity

December 20, 2009 by Erica Leave a Comment

At Ahimsa Kids Set Tutoring Agency, we have a tradition of sharing a yearly activity that can be enjoyed with friends and family, and you don’t have to be a kid to have fun with it. We hope you enjoy this year’s activity inspired by our own team of set tutors in BC. After all, who wouldn’t enjoy hunting for animal tracks…or eating them for that matter?!

One of our favourite winter time activities is animal tracking, especially in the snow. I love finding animal tracks, identifying them, and creating stories of the critters that left the tracks behind on their travels. And animal tracks can be found anywhere in winter, even if there is no snow. If there isn’t any snow, go hunting in the mud or on ground where the mud has hardened, for some tracks.

Here are some fun kitchen goodies that are easy for all ages to whip up and can help you to learn your animal tracks.

Peanut Butter Snack Tracks (A Tracey Temple Invention)

Recipe:

Mix ½ c peanut butter, ½ c icing sugar, 1 tbsp softened butter, and ½ c Rice Krispies together.

Activity:

With your young ones or the young at heart, take a heaping spoonful of the peanut butter mixture, flatten the peanut butter ‘dirt’ and make the imprints different animal tracks in it,using the picture of animal tracks as a guide.
Stick the peanut butter tracks in the fridge to harden.
Whilst your peanut butter tracks are hardening, enjoy a winter walk and search for animal tracks, identify them, and create stories of the travels of the animals that left the tracks behind.
Share your animal track stories and teach your family and friends some track id as you enjoy your peanut buttery snacks.

You can also find last year’s paper making activity here.

Happy Holidays!

The Gang at Ahimsa Kids