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Guest blog, written by Leap Academy Teacher, Aurora Powers Quarantine with children under five presents both a challenge and an opportunity. Working from home, keeping healthy, freezing temperatures and new siblings, and a pandemic are unique. You are not alone. We are all working with limited space, limited outside time, smaller villages and you’re doing…

Here are three easy dishes you can make in thirty minutes that are packed with produce: cashew-carrot butter, black bean quesadillas, and avocado chocolate pudding.   Cashew Carrot Butter: Ingredients: 2 c cashews 2 c carrots Maple syrup to taste Vanilla   Directions: Boil carrots in two inches of water until soft to the polk…

The journey of potty training is a unique experience that can best be utilized as a great learning experience for both parents and kiddos alike.  One question we get asked often in early childhood is “How do I get my child potty trained?”  Ridding your family of diapers and perpetual clean up has to be…

  By Jessica Abbeglen, Enrollment Coordinator   Incorporating art into your child’s at home routine is one of the most beneficial experiences you can do with your child. Art fosters creativity, self confidence, develops analytical and problem solving skills and solidifies math and science concepts. Adding art is easy and fun when you prepare and expect…

        As we roll thick into the heart of winter and a pandemic, many of our families are spending more time at home than we have in the past.  Each week we will be highlighting a quick, frugal idea for how to help your kids explore with open-ended materials instead of (or…

Those playgrounds at Kindergarten are pretty big and pretty unsupervised compared to the ones we have at Leap Academy with a 1:10 or 1:12 adult-to-child ratio.  It’s our duty to prepare our kids socially and emotionally for the world that they will be presented with after they leave our walls.  In as much, it seems…

Are you wondering what we are doing to prioritize your family’s health and wellness?  This document will guide you with information on our most updated pandemic policies and procedures.   Pandemic Procedures and Protocols Leap Academy Version 2.0 7/5/2020   What you should know about our modified policies and procedures:   Drop off and Pick…

    During this time of hurried frenzy, and also a time in which many of us are attempting to save money, my family has worked hard on going back to basics and eating as healthy as possible.  I believe that the healthier your body is, the easier time it will have defending itself or…