Fascinating group of young muggles and magics in last week’s Hogwart’s Traveling School of Magic. Here are some of the pics:
Sorry no moving images, on order by the Ministry of Magic. You know being as muggles are involved here and all.
Excited to be visiting the young muggles and magics this week in Ladner for one last week of the Hogwart’s Traveling School of Magic for the summer.
Sufficed to say it’s been a little hotter than we’re used to in BC this summer. Rather than let our tempers boil over, we’ve got a few games to beat the summer heat and cool down over the next couple of weeks from Erica Hargreave, the founder of Ahimsa Media (Digital, Interactive, Transmedia Storytelling Company), and Ahimsa Kids (Representing Set Teachers and Child Coordinators in BC). Take it away Erica!
I’ve set these activities up like mini-Olympic Games competitions to add a bit of friendly sport in there.
The first one:
Protective Padding
Because it’s not only the athletes that need to protect their noggins…..
MATERIALS:
THE SKINNY:
Here’s the deal kids. Your building a helmet to protect your water balloon from bursting. You can build it in anyway you like as long as you don’t break the rules (I’ll get to those in a minute). Once you’ve built and fastened on your water balloon’s helmet, partner up and take turns tossing your partners water balloon gently in front of their feet. To win, you need to be the last dry kid standing (ie. your balloon has not burst).
THE RULES: (Yes, there are rules, because without them it would be chaos people, chaos I tell yah)
About the Author:
Erica Hargreave is a writer, storyteller, teacher and scientist. She’s been having fun doing a few summer camps for the Delta School District, including the Wild World of Science, Outdoor Ed and Hogwart’s Travelling School of Magic. She has two up and coming Hogwart’s Camps, the week’s of August 10 – 15 in North Delta and August 17 – 22 in Ladner.
I was lucky enough to spend my afternoons two weeks ago in beautiful Boundary Bay, Tsawwassen with a great group of young people. We rambled through the forests, fields and beaches on outdoor ed adventures, team building, studying edible and medicinal plants, creating things from plants and learning survival skills. Here are a few of the pics:
Wow!! Had such a great week with the Wild World of Science kids. Such a creative bunch of characters. Here are some pics from the week:
One young scientist piled 288 pennies on a bridge built from a single piece of paper at yesterday’s Wild World of Science Camp. Can you beat her in this Bridge Building Challenge?
The Rules:
Good luck!
Spent a morning earlier this week exploring Boundary Bay in prep for this week’s Outdoor Ed Camp. I can’t wait!!! It’s just so beautiful and absolutely perfect for a week of leadership building, camp cooking, survival skills and tracking. Looking forward to it! Here’s a couple of pics I snapped as I was out and about:
Howling with laughter!!! Always knew our very own Lori Yearwood was a Rock Star, but the paparazzi pics that spread virally of her with Zac Efron on the web today proves it.
Not much of a celebrity hound or quite frankly an advocate of star power, but I have to say that it was interesting to see how a paparazzi pic taken of our very own star, Lori Yearwood, could go viral on the web in a day. She’s on:
…. and the list goes on. And the funny part, the info they gave on all these sites isn’t even accurate. Same misinformation across the board. Just goes to show you that not everything you read, especially online, is true.
As for the original photographer? Not a clue, but glad nobodies jumping out of the bushes to shoot me.
It doesn’t matter how old I get, the summer still brings with it a yearning to return to my old stomping grounds – the pond. As kids, some of my fondest memories are of mucking about in the pond. My brother, Petey, and I even had ‘frogging birthdays’. Rather fitting really that summer brings with it childhood memoirs of time spent at the pond, as ponds are the old stomping grounds for many critters in the spring & summer. A pond is in fact a ‘creature nursery’. I’ve got some great instructions for you on how to build your own pond scope and a temporary treasures aquarium. Often, when out on set teaching in BC, we have found ourselves schooling in an outdoor classroom on location. This is a great inspiration to give the child a break, take a nature walk and get some science based learning in!
Here are a few of my favourite childhood pond nursery pals:
And a few that spend their lives in the pond:
Pond waters teeming with life, you just have to slow down to see it. Heres two ways that I’ve done this:
Building a Pond Scope
Supplies:
Creating a Temporary Treasures Aquarium
Supplies
Have fun and remember to be respectful of the critters and the pond. Your visiting their home.
For more science fun, check out my science camp this summer.
Pretty impressed with the forward thinking of the Delta School District, as as far I am aware they will be one of the first school districts to fully embrace social media this summer, by actually offering students a course in it … making them a social media history maker.
That’s right, the Delta School District is having me teach two mini-courses this summer on ‘Blogging and Storytelling’ and I’m pretty gosh, darn excited about it. I love Interactive Storytelling (which is a part of what using social media tools to tell story is), I love to share knowledge (especially that which excites me) and I love working with young people and seeing them get excited about learning.
So details on the classes? Here they are:
BLOGGING – STORYTELLING RESPONSIBLY & SAFELY (ages 10 – 15)
If our youth are going to blog, tweet or fire up flickr photos – on the new information highways – then might it be wise to teach them to do it in both a socially responsible and personally safe fashion? Join media arts specialist and Delta teacher Erica Hargreave as she helps students create their stories and characters online in a safe and responsible manner. This week of storytelling explores the use of social media tools which are becoming more and more a part of their lives. And of course … don’t forget your digital camera!
Fee: $70
ID 8153 July 6 -10 9:00 – 11:00 am Seaquam Secondary
ID 8154 July 13 – 17 1:00 – 3:00 pm Delta Secondary
Nervous about your child learning how to use social media? Well, I hate to say it, but it is just like sex. You can hide it from them, but that doesn’t mean they’re not going to experiment on their own. By showing young people the cool things they can do with social media and storytelling, we can encourage them to be safe, show them how to be safe and how to use the tools responsibly. I also might add, that it is the knowledge of how to use these tools safely and responsibly that a lot of businesses are looking to young people for guidance, opening those that know how to do this to a lot of opportunity.
Hope to see you and your young storytellers this summer!
A little known fact about our company is that Ahimsa Media has a boutique set teaching division, Ahimsa Kids, geared to providing engaging and inspired teachers to teach child actors on set in BC. Well, Ahimsa Kids had some very exciting news yesterday, they got their first ever California Studio Teacher for teaching the young actors from LA who come to BC to work on film or TV productions!!!!
An enormous congratulations to Lori Yearwood on obtaining her California Studio Teaching License!!! We are so, so proud of you and appreciative of the hard work you put into obtaining the certification! Well done you gorgeous girl!
