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Get Back to Nature: Gold Bar Park Stream
While Gold Bar Park is an amazing place to explore (largest urban park in Canada!), our favorite spot within it is a shallow stream that empties out into the North Saskatchewan River. We first discovered this fun spot while visiting Rundle Park and saw people along the shore of the river on the other side. We crossed the pedestrian bridge to Gold Bar Park and followed a narrow path through the trees that came out at the stream. The girls had fun wading in the water, picking up cool rocks and watching the minnows swim by. On our second trip back there was a summer recreation group exploring the…
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Worldschooling From Home
We are homeschoolers, we learn at home instead of in a brick and mortar school. I would also classify us as unschoolers, our lifestyle facilitates child led learning and exploration. Those two terms are becoming more mainstream, but there’s a new group of learners taking the world by storm (quite literally!). Worldschoolers are people that learn from the world around them, and this can be accomplished in many different way. Some families prefer slow travel and spend many months or years in their new home away from home, some do short trips abroad and return to a home base, or some spend a short amount of time in a new area…
