Ashby Musical Enterprises — piano lessons
Scott Ashby
2397 Sutton Drive
Burlington, ON L7L 7N2
Phone: 905-963-1268
Fax: 905-592-2077
Email: info@
(add ashbyme.com to complete the email address)
Web: www.ashbyme.com
"Daytime music lessons (piano, theory, brass, woodwinds) are available at Ashby Musical Enterprises, Burlington, Ontario. I'm a former homeschooler and Bob Jones University graduate who would love to add some homeschoolers to my studio. I also offer online music theory classes."
Boundless High School
Base camp location: 600-acre basecamp property in the Ottawa Valley,
3.5 hours Northeast of Toronto, on the banks of the Madwaska River near the
village of Palmer Rapids.
Mail: Boundless High School
203 Lonsmount Drive
Toronto, Ontario M5P 2Y6
Email: boundless@
(add on.aibn.com to complete the email address)
Phone: 416-658-7959
Fax: 416-658-1520
Website: www.boundlesshighschool.org
A summer private school which mixes the Ontario Curriculum with outdoor adventure. Each 13-day program earns a full high school credit and costs between $1825 and $1900. The outdoor program is complemented by a number of group discussions, journaling, small group projects and student-led activities.
- Flatwater and whitewater canoeing
- River rescue
- 5 to 7-day wild river expedition
- Aerial ropes courses
- Rock climbing
- Rappelling Wilderness living skills
- Wilderness first aid
- Orienteering and map reading
- Tents and shelters
- Fire building and outdoor cooking
- Packing and preparing for multi-day river trip
- Co-operative leadership and teamwork initiatives
- Communication and trust exercises
- Eco-challenge (multi-activity adventure race)
Boundless staff are certified in advanced wilderness first aid, lifeguarding, river rescue, climbing safety and risk management protocols. Staff to student ratio is 1:5.
Bright Math Camp
Camp location: Carleton University in Ottawa
Mail: Bright Math Camp Inc.
6 Jeremiah Place
Ottawa, Ontario, K2H 8L8
Coordinator: Hélène Desrosiers-Grégoire
Phone: 829-5570 (h) or 797-0080 (c)
Email: hdgregoire@
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Website: www.ncf.ca/~au680/index.htm
Cost: $370 for 5 days (9am to 4pm) in July (register by June 20)
This summer camp explores recreational mathematics with gifted students. Intended for gifted children in enrichment or IPRC programmes, it explores numbers, arithmetic operations, probability, statistics, sequences, combinatorics, geometry, topology, problem solving, conjectures, cryptography, and other challenges. It also offers chess, sports, swimming, and juggling. See the website for a more detailed description of the programmes and a printable registration form.
The Corax Academy
www.thecoraxacademy.com
Director: P. Rose Primeau
Telephone: 613.274.1775
E-mail: info@
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- in-person instruction, tutoring, and consulting in Ottawa and surrounding area
- live, on-line instruction, tutoring, and consulting — innovative learning software features voice, video, and desktop application sharing
- pre-designed, cross-curricular, thematic lessons and course content (CD-ROM or web-based)
DO the MATH — York region
www.dothemathclass.ca
Tutor: Maggie Pengelly
Phone - home: 905 476 4878
Phone - cell: 905 830 4827
E-mail: Maggie (at) dothemathclass.ca
Preparation for high school math, using Saxon Algebra ½ and Saxon Algebra 1. Classes held in home or at the local library. Supplies provided: text books, note books, pencils and pens. The cost of the course can vary according to class size and location. Examples: for one student, in your home, two classes per week (each class is 1 ½ to 2 hours in length), the cost is $200/month. For two or more students, two classes per week (2 hours each), the cost is $150/student/month.
EDvise Educational Consultants
Daytime reading clinics with specialists using an Orton-Gillingham approach suitable for students who may not be able to learn through traditional classroom instruction. A distinct feature of the Orton-Gillingham approach is that reading, spelling and written language are taught simultaneously. Teaching style includes multisensory teaching.
Bathurst/St. Clair location:
Virginia Wheler
416-574-4085
vwheler.edvise@
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Yonge/Eglinton location:
Liisa Freure
416-433-9580
lfreure.edvise@
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Both tutors are mothers, elementary school teachers with experience in ESL and Special Education, and members of the following organizations:
- Ontario College of Teachers
- Ontario Association of Educational Advocates (Certified Educational Advocates)
- International Dyslexia Association
- Learning Disabilites Association of Ontario
Fun Pass
The Ministry of Tourism is pleased to offer Ontario's home schooled children the opportunity to visit some of the province's best attractions this summer.
The 2008 Fun Pass provides general admission for children 14 years and under, accompanied by one paying adult or senior, to experience Ontario's agencies and attractions (limit of 1 coupon per paying adult or senior). The pass is worth approximately $120 in ticket prices to the following participating provincial attractions:
- Niagara Parks Commission (Butterfly Conservatory, Old Fort Erie)
- Huronia Historical Parks (Sainte-Marie Among the Hurons, Discovery Harbour)
- Science North
- Upper Canada Village
- Fort Henry
- Fort William Historical Park
- McMichael Canadian Art Collection
- Ontario Place*
- Royal Ontario Museum
- Royal Botanical Gardens
- Ontario Science Centre*
- Ontario Heritage Trust properties (Uncle Tom's Cabin, Barnum House, Fulford Place, Homewood Museum, Elgin and Winter Garden Theatres)
- Ontario Parks (Daily Vehicle Permit discount)
* The Fun Pass is not valid for any special events, any programs outside of regular daily operating hours, or any separately ticketed programs/events, such as:
- Shoppers Drug Mart® OMNIMAX® Theatre or Facing Mars Exhibition at the Ontario Science Centre
- Rogers™ Chinese Lantern Festival at Ontario Place
- CNE rides and attractions at Exhibition Place.
The Fun Pass is available to all residents of Ontario aged 14 and under. To obtain a free 2008 Fun Pass, please e-mail your request to FunPass@ (add ontario.ca to complete the email address) or telephone (416) 314-1425.
Gloucester Pottery School
www.gloucesterpotteryschool.com
4355 Halmont Drive, off the Ogilvy Road
rosemary@ (add gloucesterpotteryschool.com
to complete the email address)
Courses in pottery for children 6-12 years of age. The website mentions Saturday classes but homeschoolers can also schedule morning or afternoon classes on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.
MoreMusic
Music program for children in grades 4 to 8, learning how to play on wind and brass instruments. Instruments are available for rental.
Also offering individual music lessons in a wide range of instruments to students starting at age 5 and continuing up to university. Those instruments include piano, violin, guitar, voice as well as any of the wind or brass instruments that they can learn as a group.
Dianne Clark
27-129 Concession St E
Tillsonburg ON N4G 4N4
Phone: 842-7473 or 688-5127
Email: alwaysmoremusic@
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Website: http://alwaysmusical.tripod.com/
COST:
One on one lessons: $16 per half hour
Band lessons $40.00 per month per child
Rental of instruments - range from $20.00 - 42.00 per month( $109.00 - $245.00
per school year)
Books - $9.90
Stand - $19.96
Mostly Math Enrichment Centre
Educational consulting and guidance services. Mostly Math was created as an open resource centre for families and students to use according to their individualized needs.
Director: Sarah Rainsberger591 Sheppard Avenue East
North York (Toronto) ON M2K 1B4
Email: info@ (add mostly-math.com to complete the email address)
Website: www.mostly-math.com
Phone: 416-502-1717
Ash Myers — piano, painting, tennis — Hamilton
Lessons available: piano, painting, tennis.
Held throughout the daytime in the instructor's home in Hamilton.
Lessons run year-round.
$15 per half-hour and $25 per hour.
(For painting instruction, canvas and painting materials not included).
Ash Myers, B.A-Sociology (Hon.) B.ED
Phone: 905-689-0200
Email: amyers1@
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Night Sky Tours
NightSkyTours.ca
Gil Tennant, Astronomer
905-441-1759
NST offers Ontario curriculum-compliant informational sessions at their large mobile telescope, allowing them to come to the home schooling parent's residence or a pre-designated location for Astronomy instruction. Options include day-time solar sessions with a specially filtered and totally safe solar set-up, and night-time stargazing sessions lasting an hour and a half. NST is fully insured.
Olympic Spirit Toronto
35 Dundas Street EastToronto, Ontario M5B 1T8
Phone: 1-888-466-9991
E-Mail: info@ (add OlympicSpirit.ca to complete the email address)
groups@ (add OlympicSpirit.ca to complete the email address)
education@ (add OlympicSpirit.ca to complete the email address)
Website: www.olympicspirit.ca/education.asp
Offering day camps, group tours, and visits with future and former Olympic athletes, Olympic Spirit Toronto is a discovery complex that provides scholastic opportunities in areas of geography, history, multi-media, science, and physical education through a variety of interactive experiences. Each exhibit, display and interactive installation is intended to pique the curiosity of students. In their exploration of the Olympic Spirit complex, students can discover the connections between social studies and sport, learn about the sciences behind agility, speed and overcoming inertia, and, in speaking to the actual athletes, gain a deeper understanding of the values inherent in becoming an Olympian.
Ontario Science Centre Educational Programs
www.OntarioScienceCentre.ca
Ontario
Science Centre
770 Don Mills Rd
Toronto, Ontario M3C 1T3
Business Hours: 8:00 am to 4:00 pm- Monday to Friday
Fax on Demand: 416-696-3231
Recorded Info Line: 416-696-3177
School Bookings Phone: 416-696-3140
School Bookings Fax: 416-696-3226
E-Mail: school_bookings@
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Camps/Sleepover Phone: 416-696-3256
Camps/Sleepover Fax: 416-696-3139
E-Mail: camps@
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The Ontario Science Centre's Educational Programs for Canadian schools are available to homeschoolers as well, including the Early Bird Special discount ($5 saving per person), provided that the Homeschool group meets the criteria for Canadian School Group Admission rates:
1) pre-booking and confirmation by mail or fax
2) a minimum of 10 students per group for an exhibit hall visit
3) a minimum of 20 students per group for a School Program
4) a minimum number of supervisors, based on a ratio of students to supervisors
depending on grade level
The Canadian School programs are listed on their web site. If you have difficulty meeting the minimum student number requirements, you can either try to build up the sze of your group through announcements on the hs-ontrips list, or you may bring any fewer number of students you like, provided the minimum number are paid for. (Another option is a family membership. It will not gain you admission to the school programs, but does provide access to the public demonstrations and lectures put on every day at the Centre.) Bookings are made on a first come first served basis and are not done over the phone due to the volume of calls. If you are interested in booking a school-program visit, fill out the Special Offer School Visits application form and fax it to the Centre.
Primarily Piano
Contact: Yolanda Postma
Primarily Piano
phone: (519) 686-8346
email: yolanda@
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website: www.primarilypiano.com
Michael Reist, Tutor-Mentor — Caledon East
Help with Academics, Behaviour, Goal-Setting, Parent-Child Relations
Michael Reist B.A., B.Ed., M.A.(T.) is a high school English teacher with 22 years experience and the father of four homeschooled children.
Michael Reist15 McKinley Cresent
Caledon East, Ontario L0N 1E0
(905) 584-4394
tutoringwithreist@ (add hotmail.com to complete the email address)
Sing for Joy! — singing, drama, Ottawa / Hull
Tutor Jennifer Vallance offers group and individual singing lessons to homeschooled children of all ages, in her studio or your home in the Ottawa/Hull area. Classical, Musical Theatre and general singing for confidence/skill building or aiming for RCM examinations.
Monday to Friday with hours to suit your needs.
Individual lessons $18 per 1/2 hour, $35 /hour
Group lessons for 4 - 6 students $18 per hour
Travelling fee may apply depending on time/distance
Drama lessons for individuals or small groups (up to 12 students): sessions may be performance oriented, or for skill/confidence building.
Contact Jennifer at (819) 682-0986 or jennylanesings@ (add hotmail.com to complete the email address)
Spotlight Studios — music education, West Toronto
Music education for all ages and levels of ability.
Private instruction on brass, piano, and percussion instruments. All musical
styles available, classical, jazz, improvisation.
Classes in Music Theory, and Music History.
Flexible daytime hours, located in West Toronto.
Twenty years of international teaching and performing experience.
Contact 647-344-8813 or email g_tiller@ (add hotmail.com to complete the email address)
Webster's Academy Ontario — Greater Toronto Area
Teaching Writing Structure and Style
Four day writing intensives: 2 &1/2 hours per day four consecutive days.
Six Week Tutorials: 3 hours per day, once per week Grades 4 to 7 and 8 to
10+ - blended classes.
Prepares all kids to write paragraphs, reports and essays above their grade levels. Parents are encouraged to participate at no charge.
Jo-Ann Pienaar. B.A. (English), H. Dip. Ed.
Phone: 416-237-1775
Email: writingacademy@
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Wits End Equestrian Centre
Wits End Equestrian (Residential Summer Camp, Show Training Centre)
near Lakefield, Ontario
Contact: Mary Mattos
Email: mmattos@
(add pipcom.com to complete the email address)
Web site: www.pipcom.com/~mmattos
Equine programs for home schooling kids.
- 30 horses
- residential
- rates include accommodation, meals, individual instruction (riding, horse care, preparation for careers in the equine industry)
- resource library: books, video tapes, props, magazines and research articles, internet access
- field trips and liaison with Canadian Pony Club, 4-H, Ontario Equestrian Federation (ARE-Ont member)
