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[heartlandians]

While on the set of Heartland, he [Jake Church] had a private tutor, with whom he worked every day, to ensure that he stayed current with his school work.

Captivate Magazine Issue 3 by Calgary Academy

[superjaysons]

Calgary students submit designs for new Indigenous $5 bill

Calgary students submit designs for new Indigenous $5 bill

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The Bank of Canada is currently accepting nominations for who should be the face of the new $5 bill, and a group of Calgary students says it’s time for an Indigenous person to bear the honour.

Grade 7 students at the Calgary Academy have been researching Indigenous figures in Canadian history for the past two weeks.

Each student is designing their own $5 bill based on an Indigenous…

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[rockypointacademy]

Welcome to Rocky Point Academy

Come and discover a unique educational therapy program dedicated to those struggling with learning or focusing.  Many adults and children with average/high levels of intelligence, curiosity, creativity and innovation struggle with everyday tasks.  Attain the skills, confidence and motivation needed to achieve your goals.

Our mission is to empower each client with:

An understanding of how they learn

Tools and strategies that fit their learning needs

An ability to apply their new skills to all future learning and/or life experiences

Rocky Point Academy is proud to offer the DavisTM programs for correcting:

                       Reading +

                           Writing +

                           Math +

                           Attention +

                           Autism +

                           Executive Functioning +

                                                    Reading:

A client can expect to leave the program with tools which allow for continued improvement in reading fluency and comprehension, control of mis-perceptions experienced during reading, increased ability to achieve and maintain focus and increased self-confidence.

Developing:

Phonological awareness: mastery of upper and lower case letters, alphabetizing, letter-sound correspondence, letter reversals, contractions, irregular verbs, pronunciation, adding suffixes and prefixes

Fluency: mastery of sight words, smooth left to right eye-tracking, increased vocabulary recognition, moving from “sounding out” towards whole word recognition and smoother reading

Comprehension: listening comprehension, reading comprehension/ picturing ability, punctuation mastery, story structures, essay structures, learning how to use intention to retain information the first read-through.

Memory of Information: strategies for placing information into long term memory, study strategies for various learning styles

Positive Thinking: learning how “being relaxed/keeping it easy” allows for maximum learning potential, recognizing and eliminating stress before it builds into frustration while reading, strategies for decreasing “test anxiety”

Reducing:

Inconsistency in reading (knowing it one day and not the next)

Fatigue

“Guessing” at words

Rushing and careless reading errors

Anxiety, headaches, dizziness, stomach aches or tears caused from difficulty with reading

Printed words from appearing to move on the page

Inaccurate or inconsistent speech sounds

Rereading for comprehension

Slow laborious sounding out of each word

Reversals

Eye tracking problems

Distraction while reading

Test anxiety

Negative feelings toward reading tasks

http://www.rockypointacademy.com/