Month: April 2020

Supporting Mental Health with Leanne Webster Brenner

Monday, April 27, 2:00-3:00 pm

Leanne will be presenting a workshop on anxiety & stress for students and parents. Parents and children have very different experiences and understanding of anxiety. Leanne will be covering both perspectives and speaking to children and adults during this talk.

Leanne will shift back and forth between parents and students, giving parents a little background info first before jumping into the ‘Brain Science for Kids’ lesson which leads us right into anxiety.

Find the recording of the presentation here.

Find a copy of the slideshow Leanne used in her presentation here.

Holistic Nutrition for Kids with Shannon Simpson (Mindful Meals)

Tuesday, May 5, 10:00-10:45 am

This fun holistic nutrition class will introduce kids to mindful eating, the importance of eating a rainbow of colors and how whole food can feed our brains and help us learn.  We will not focus on what is “good” or “bad” but instead what are the foods that make our bodies and brains grow big and strong and the “sometimes foods.”  Children will also learn to make a delicious shake.

You can see a recording of the presentation here: https://youtu.be/4gg2g6oFSkU

Our thanks to Melissa Mullis, Intermediate Teacher (Compass, Nanaimo), and Nicole Hamilton, Curriculum and Resource Fund Support Teacher (Tsolum), for the informative session for elementary students and parents on Supporting Language Arts Learning at Home. For those unable to participate on April 20th, Nicole and Melissa have very generously made available their talk for you to access online.

A recording of the Zoom session may be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EjaNytz5–R66wl8B3pSWbQbz4joc5le/view

PowerPoint Version (downloadable) Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZquZK0G8dtSslMAzYEv8721rL8tJfzR2/view?usp=sharing
PDF Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1P5QMFncRaqyjmhXDPOqlTnISI88DF8lo/view?usp=sharing
Google Slides Version Link: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1z4uMUCo76desHrcHz7C1GEzgegK7ur2RPaNz-4Xt6VY/edit?usp=sharing

The Google Slides and PowerPoint version can be opened and viewed with the Presenter Notes available which have some extra details about each of the resources, plus a few more links to check out. 

Many thanks to Nicole Hamilton and Thai Nguyen for providing these online resources for K-12 learners. These are terrific supplemental and enrichment resources to our curriculum.