Watercolour wild roses
Learn & explore drawing and painting in a “wet on wet” watercolour technique. Today’s art is inspired by wild roses.
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Learn & explore drawing and painting in a “wet on wet” watercolour technique. Today’s art is inspired by wild roses.
Watercolour wild roses Read More »
Love reading? Your local public library would like to make you a proposal – more free access to ebooks, audiobooks and online learning tools.
Throughout the month of February, the Yukon Public Library (YPL) system will be highlighting these new resources, along with ways for Yukoners to access them, with the New Reasons To Love You Library Campaign.
Little did we know that this Friday was our last day of pre-COVID normalcy for the rest of our university experience.
Back to (online) school Read More »
Hercule Poirot, the famous Belgian detective of Agatha Christie’s novels, said “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks.” I was a bit surprised recently,
Old dog, new tricks Read More »
Impressed by the creativity the artists in the program have brought to re-imagining their workshops for online delivery.
Artist in the School Adapts Read More »
Ever have dreams about homeschooling your kids, but never got the opportunity to? Now that you have no choice because of school closures, are you constantly fighting with your kids to get their work done?
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The thing I remember most from my first Aikido class is falling; or, rather, how to fall properly.
Practising Aikido, the ‘Art of Peace’ Read More »
The Yukon Imagination Library — non-profit organization that gives free books to Yukon children from birth to age four — is turning 10 this year.
There’s Always a Stack of Books Hidden Under Their Quilts Read More »
I wanted to make people communicate better – with me and with each other. I didn’t see myself as the problem here.
Communication is the Key Read More »
One of the philosophical pillars of the Learning Tree Daycare is to teach the kids there about helping other people. “Teaching kindness and all of
The school year is well and truly underway by now. There is a lot of enthusiastic, energetic and creative learning happening all over the territory.
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A question that pops up every now and again is, Would students be better off without a summer vacation? This stance claims that the luxurious
Gridlock. We hardly ever have it in Whitehorse and if we do we can likely, easily, take another route to get where we are going
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According to Israeli physicist Moshe Feldenkrais, “hurrying is bad for learning.” How many of us hurry through our day ensuring that the garbage has been
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Can we change our brain just by thinking? Neuroscience would have us believe so. For example, a calm brain is more capable of learning, working
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Grammar jokes are all over the internet: How do you console a grammarphile? Pat them gently on the back, saying “there, their, they’re” Let’s eat,
It’s About You’re Grammar: Messages from a Dessert Island Read More »
Walk into École Émilie Tremblay (EET) on a Monday or a Thursday evening and you may be surprised to see that the usual school gymnasium
The Art of Judo – Yukon-Style Read More »
If you are looking for a memorable and activity-packed March Break, there is no reason to leave town. In addition to normal family-friendly programming, many
A March Break Staycation to Remember Read More »
My Learning Disabilities Association of Yukon colleague’s daughter will be heading to Greenland next month for the Arctic Winter Games. She is competing in snowshoe
Taking the Stress out of Learning Read More »
I am tempted to call building your own house the ultimate DIY project. I don’t mean selecting from a range of floorplans and materials and
I will try anything once; twice if the first time doesn’t kill me. Which is fortunate, because that’s how many times I had been skiing
Hitting the Powder Read More »
Experienced readers know that words make a world within a story come alive. However, for early readers, sometimes they need the world around them to
Word Play for Early Readers Read More »
Why have I never written about hunting before? Maybe it’s because writing about an experience makes it more real. In the face of hunting, that
Hunting or not, wild animals are my teachers Read More »
Yes, a new form of torture has been developed, involving an unrelenting repetition of a single passage from the Myth of Sisyphus – what? C-A-M-A-S?
As a kid and a teenager I read a lot. I remember taking home five to seven books every week from the library of the
The Cozy Feeling of Being Absorbed in a Book Read More »
The discs one uses in disc golf have certain innate properties that allow them to act in a reasonably predictable manner. For example, all else
When I was learning to drive, one required skill haunted my dreams. Leading up to my driver’s test in the summer of 1998 I would
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In an interview, Bob Weir, rhythm guitarist for the Grateful Dead, admitted somewhat sheepishly, that yes, it was a bit embarrassing learning how to play
Two weeks before my open mic appearance, I begin learning my first song on the banjo. Although it’s far from my first choice, I settle
Emil Imrith laughs easily when he is asked about the stereotype we have for physicists: nerdy types in lab coats standing in front of a
Campbell Ryga has a thing about saxophones. When he’s not playing them, chances are you’ll find him at a workbench repairing one, or conducting clinics
My lack of birding skills used to be a secret shame. When it did come out, it was with an embarrassed acknowledgment that despite a
For many amateur astronomers, the passion for deep space observing ultimately leads them to photography and imaging of the night sky. It is a good
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“I started playing hockey when I was four years old, because I wanted to keep up with my older brother,” says Vanessa Bogaert. Twenty three
In the padded and tranquil setting of the Aikido Yukon studio, students are warming up with their instructor William Jones by doing side push-ups. “Now
Martial Art and More Read More »