Hand-In-Hand News & Events
COMOX VALLEY RECORD: Cumberland nature-based preschool hosts forest practitioner course
COMO VALLEY RECORD: Twenty education and child care practitioners from across Western Canada were in the Comox Valley last week for a five-day course focusing on how to implement nature-based learning into educational programs. CLICK HERE TO READ ARTICLE
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WYL Featuring CR Outdoor Preschool
Shaw TV North Island NEWS: Where You Live for the month of May learned all about the new outdoor preschool being offered by Campbell River Recreation. It is the coolest classroom ever!
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Early Years ‘Campference’ – The Community Producers
Shaw TV NEWS: The Early Years Nature Education Program's 'Campference' celebrates the families who believe in nature based learning for children.
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Purchase a CVCS Calendar to raise funds for the Cumberland Community Forest
The Comox Valley Conservation Strategy (CVCS), a regional conservation planning framework, initiated to stop the loss of valuable ecological areas in the Comox Valley by promoting the conservation and restoration of land and water ecosystem has published the fifth...
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Hand-In-Hand featured in InFocus Magazine
Hand-In-Hand Education is featured in inFocus magazine for the November & December 2015 issue, 'Connected to Nature' by Debbie Bowman. "Children today spend on average 50 hours a week on some sort of device and at least 90 per cent of their time indoors. The rate...
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Hand-In-Hand’s Spring Break Program at Comox’s Filberg Park
Go wild this spring! This outdoor educational program is designed to offer a unique early childhood learning experience. Your children will explore, interact and learn as they play outside and discover what they love about our local forests and beaches. Registration...
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Gloves that work!
Parents, educators and children at Hand and Hand have all been wondering, "What are the best gloves out there for small hands in both freezing mornings and rainy days, that let children still have the ability to grip things?!?" Here's some examples of gloves we've...
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1st Annual Vancouver Island Nature Preschool Conference…for KIDS only!
This is a collaborative effort of nature preschools throughout Vancouver Island. We're planning a conference for preschoolers where we will all gather for a weekend in June 2016 (dates are still left to be determined) at a Rathtrevor Beach Provincial Park…where they...
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Special Kids Program: Mystical Protector Mystery at the Perseverance Party
Hand-In-Hand Early Years Nature Education Program’s team is happy to offer a special kid’s program called the Mystical Protector Mystery at the Perseverance Party for the Forest in the Cumberland Community Forest on Sunday, October 25th, 2015. To register your kids...
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