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Announcement: New Medieval Times Creative Writing Classes

Hello Everyone! Registration is now open for our new creative writing classes for elementary school aged kids. Our student to teacher ratios for group classes are 3:1 minimum and 5:1 maximum. In these classes, students will learn new creative writing skills through activities centered around Medieval History. Their projects will involve games like chess for one and other multi-sensory projects. As Read More

24 Sep 2012

Informational Building Blocks – A Phenomenal T.A.L. Podcast On The Latest Education Research

Happy Back-To-School Day To Our Readers! Even though school started for most kids earlier this month, every Monday is truly a back to school or work day for many of us. So we bring you what's inspired us most this monday morning, a podcast from This American Life! They are on the radio but also have smart phone apps and podcasts Read More

17 Sep 2012

We Put The “ing” In Learning!

We have more than teachers and tutors in our learning center family! Meet the Family! We call these little helpers, "Squishies!" Fred, Quazmo, Lucy, Grup, and Bork help some of our more active kinesthetic learnings keep moving while sitting and listening to instructions when back in classroom atmospheres or when listening to us. These simple toys help include movement, a Read More

11 Sep 2012

Characters, Puppets, Stuffed Animals, and Pets For Learning

This adorable scene was witnessed during one of our math classes yesterday... Kiddo: "Oh, not math! I can't do it!" Teacher: "Well if you can't do it, then a puppet can. Go pick out a puppet to play." Kiddo: "Okay!" (Kiddo brings back enough puppets for each student in the class to also use if they'd like.) Teacher: "Okay everybody, we need one puppet Read More

19 Aug 2012

How To Mummify A Store-Bought Chicken: Imagination Learning Center gives kids multi-sensory historical projects to write about!

ARCHEOLOGY & ANCIENT EGYPTIAN THEMED CREATIVE WRITING CLASSES ARE NOW ENROLLING AT ILC!

CHICKEN MUMMIFICATION PROJECT SUMMARY: Here is our "How To" Blog for one of the most fascinating and fun hands-on projects we do with our creative writing students using, in this case, a historical Ancient Egypt theme. Over the course of 5 weeks, our students learn different Read More

24 Jul 2012

Groundbreaking Summer Classes Announced! REGISTER NOW

This Summer, at Imagination Learning Center, we're introducing our new Egyptian Archeology Themed Creative Writing Program! Kids and parents request we tailor a creative writing class for this Summer. And we are ready!!! As an exciting and challengingly fun way to continue learning over the Summer, kids will explore various projects designed to capture their imaginations and help them to take Read More

1 Jun 2012

Success!

LEGO COMMERCIAL:

Sometimes kids arrive to their first class at Imagination Learning Center kicking and screaming because they're kids who've struggled in school and who've had their parents take them to various tutoring services or programs that were unsuccessful and painful. Recently, a very bright boy started out with us a few weeks ago very upset and

16 Mar 2012

WHAT’S NEW AT IMAGINATION LEARNING CENTER?

We are kicking off our September of Sundays live music series for kids and our free fall workshops for parents and teachers. Join us at our Open House for a meet and greet, live music, free prizes, and demonstrations of our game format learning programs. Details below! FREE OPEN HOUSE & KID’S CONCERT When: September 18, 2011 Time: 1pm-4pm (concert starts at Read More

15 Sep 2011

Announcement

Happy May Everyone!

For those of you who’ve been asking, here it is! We are very happy officially to announce that we offer group classes! There are exciting things in the works and it’s going to be a wonderful summer!

This year has been peppered with inspiring successes. From kids within the Autism Spectrum, Down Syndrome, Read More

24 May 2011

Games That Make Homework More Fun!

There are many different games on the market you can use to make your child's spelling and reading homework more fun. Here are some of our recommendations to parents for helping their kids with their word recognition skills while broadening their word and vocabulary base: Balderdash UpWords Travel Scrabble Boggle Bananagrams Apple letters Pair in Pears MadGad Word Teasers Sidewalk Chalk Race Track Parents can also adapt these traditional store bought games Read More

22 Oct 2010

We Put The “ing” In Learning!

Groundbreaking Summer Classes Announced! REGISTER NOW

Success!

WHAT’S NEW AT IMAGINATION LEARNING CENTER?

Games That Make Homework More Fun!

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