The summer is upon us and we often ask ourselves, what activities are available in our area? We thought of offering you a list of activities located in the national capital region. You will also find some free activities.
Museums:
*Please check museum websites for effective dates.
- Canadian Museum of Nature: free on Thursdays from 5:00 to 8:00 pm
- Canadian Museum of History & Canadian War Museum: free on Thursdays from 5:00 to 8:00 pm
- National Gallery of Canada: free on Thursdays from 5:00 to 8:00 pm
- Canadian Agriculture and Food Museum: free every night from 4:00 to 5:00 pm
- Canadian Aviation and Space Museum: free every night from 4:00 to 5:00 pm
- Canada Science and Technology Museum: free every night from 4:00 to 5:00 pm
This is a beautifully written book about a family’s most difficult choice during pregnancy. Choosing Naia is a very detailed account of a family’s choice to continue their pregnancy when they are faced with uncertainty. Not only is Naia’s story explained with fear, excitement, and love but many facts about Down Syndrome and the true love it can bring you are shared throughout this read.
“A Survival Guide to life with little children!” Could this be true?
Speaking of Apraxia by Leslie A Lindsay is an easy-to-read comprehensive guide geared towards parents who have a child diagnosed with Apraxia. Apraxia is a motor-speech disorder characterized by difficulty in planning correct speech sounds in the brain and communicating them in the proper sequence to the speech muscles. Written by a parent whose child was diagnosed with Apraxia, this book walks parents through the typical stages of receiving a diagnosis, accessing Speech and Language resources, and transitioning to school. The author uses current research as well as their personal experience to inform the reader without overwhelming them with jargon or professional lingo.
This uplifting book was the winner of 8 Mom’s Choice Awards. It is a great reminder for everyone about the importance of kindness and lifting each other up. I referenced a lot of thoughts and ideas that I had while reading this book during several conversations with educators in school age programs. It made me think about positive group reinforcements for being kind to one another every day. Through conversations with both the educators and children, we came up with an idea to have physical buckets for each child in the program and a big jar of pom poms to put in another child’s bucket when someone noticed them doing something nice for a peer, or just being kind throughout the afternoon. 