Activities and Hobbies
Camping
“The wilderness holds answers to questions we have not yet learned to ask.”
Nancy Wynne Newhall
Learning Outcomes and Skills: Development across all 5 developmental domains, engages all 5 sense, explore, experiment, building, outdoors, nature, a sense of freedom and adventures, and builds resiliencies.
Trial Walking
“Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better.”
Albert Einstein
Learning Outcomes and Skills: Development across all 5 developmental domains, builds strength, engages all 5 senses, explore, experiment, outdoors, nature, orientation, and mapping.
Cooking – Baking
“No one is born a great cook one learns by doing.”
Julia Child
Learning Outcomes and Skills: Develops language, fine motor skills, attention and life skills, engages all 5 senses, math and science concepts, multi sensory textures, following instructions, understanding measurements.
Card Making
“In crafting there are no mistakes just unique creations.”
Esther Harris
Learning Outcomes and Skills: Promotes creativity, confidence, problem solving, patience, imagination, explore, experiment, shapes, colours, textures, dimensions, self learning, relaxing and calming.
Music
“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination
and life to everything.”
Plato
Learning Outcomes and Skills: Intellectual, social-emotional, language and literacy, movement, beat rhythm, culture, and sounds.
Gardening
“To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.”
Audrey Hepburn
Learning Outcomes and Skills: Love of nature, sensory development, social skills, responsibilities and patience, healthy eating, cause and effect, physical activity, life cycle of plants, and self-confidences.
Volunteered Hours in Support of my own Children
“One of the greatest gifts you can give to one another… is spending time together supporting one another!” J.P.B.
2008 – 2020
Soccer and Basketball fundraisers:
Bottle drivers
Supporting my children and their team mates to distribute information flyers to neighborhoods about the up and coming bottle drive pickups, collecting the bottles, transporting the bottles to the bottle deport, sorting out and cashing in the bottles, followed with clean up.
Learning Outcomes and Skills: Effective and inclusive communications within groups, child and family support systems, problem solving, decision making, cultural diversity, development across all developmental domains, relationship building.
Epicure Team Fundraisers
I provided sports player the opportunity to sale to family and friends, Epicure gift bags filled with 3 small jars of spices, recipe card and instructions of how to make the Epicure Extraordinary Cheese Dip.
Learning Outcomes and Skills: Educating, demonstrating, planning, organizing, nutrition value, social, emotional, cognitive, and communication development, relationship building.
Concessions
Set up and breakdown of concession tables, equipment, posters, displaying and selling of food and drink items, cash handling, and customer service.
Learning Outcomes and Skills: Planning, organizing, food safe, social, emotional, cognitive and communication development, relationship building.
2008 – 20017
Huband Park Elementary School
In classroom parent helper and reading buddy.
Learning Outcomes and Skills: Professional accountability, communication, language, literacy, and relationship building with student’s teacher and families.
At home parent helper preparing, gathering, and cutting out materials for arts and crafts.
Learning Outcomes and Skills: Child and family support systems.
Pac Meetings, Fun Fairs, and Bake Sales.
Learning Outcomes and Skills: Child and family support systems, cultural diversity, professional accountability, community relationship building, and organizational building.
2008 – 2009
Cozy Corner Nursery School
Volunteer Parent Supporter for all Children in the centre.
Learning Outcomes and Skills: Professional and ethical accountability, supporting children’s development across all developmental domains, and child and family support systems.
