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Here is a concept mapping website and a password for you: https://bubbl.us/mindmap Username: astrobot pwd=bubblus It turns out wonderful webs, visually appealing, and can easily be color-coded.  

http://therapyfunzone.net/blog/ot/visual-perceptual-skills/ Our Occupational Therapist just found this website for visual perceptual skills and other topics. It has resources, lessons, ideas, and materials all of us can use for Visual-Perceptual therapy. Hope you find it as useful as we did, especially … Continue reading →

We’re looking at ADHD as either the “hyper” kid or the inattentive type. This article describes a third type of ADHD–the hyper-focusing child. They have pockets of passion that they spend 3 hours on, and look inattentive or overly-active when … Continue reading →

http://www.scrabblefinder.com lets you input a word-ending cluster (also called word endings, vowel patterns, rhyming ends, melds, no wonder kids are confused) and it will give you all of the words for that cluster. These can be used for reading or … Continue reading →

We got a Lower School trial of Flocabulary, which is educational hip-hop videos, songs and lessons. It’s learning set to rap music — with video. Certain classes are extremely musical, so this will help. The trial is free. A building can … Continue reading →

Some of our Focus Week Alaska videos. Enjoy!

We are about to start Focus Week: Alaska, where the entire Lower School studies one subject in different ways, and shares what they’ve learned. The Lower School becomes a panoply of color and interaction. Kids add to the Centrum’s decor. … Continue reading →

Hey everybody! Beth Fox heard this story last night as she was driving home and it really resonated with her and what we do here. I loved how the school stopped using the “S” word (smart), b/c they felt it … Continue reading →

Fun With Recycling We’re making a milk jug igloo for our Alaska Focus Week 2014. Recycling materials not only helps save landfills from being overburdened and potential environmental damage, but can be fun too! In this recycling activity you can build … Continue reading →

Cam is Published! http://www.lulu.com/shop/cameron-anderson/emergency-vehicles/hardcover/product-21493248.html Cam becomes our third author to publish a hardcover book! Cam is the authority on emergency vehicles. This effort took weeks and weeks. Cam makes a small profit on each of the books sold, and I … Continue reading →