by brightadmin | Jun 1, 2021 | Karolinas Message
In September 2012, the United Nations declared June 1st of every year the “Global Day of Parents” to celebrate the impacts of parents in their children’s lives (and therefore, our communities and society). In greeting-card-market countries like...
by brightadmin | May 3, 2021 | Karolinas Message
This week is Early Childhood Educators Appreciation Week in Manitoba. Our centre has been extra-colourful (and that’s saying something in a daycare centre!) as we’ve done our best to celebrate our incredible team without being able to gather in...
by brightadmin | Apr 1, 2021 | Karolinas Message
Last month, I introduced my two-part post about how, as parents, we bestow the most important lessons our children will ever learn – no matter where they go to school. My perspectives are based on my own experiences, growing up in an immigrant family where...
by brightadmin | Mar 1, 2021 | Karolinas Message
Forty years ago today (March 1, 1981), my parents Karel and Marta immigrated to Canada from the former Czechoslovakia with their two little girls (10 years old and 18 months – that was me!) in tow. We didn’t speak English. We didn’t have money....
by brightadmin | Feb 2, 2021 | Karolinas Message
While everyone else turns their focus to Valentine’s Day each February, elementary schoolteachers and many families know the *real* star this month is Kindergarten registration. Each elementary school in Pembina Trails School Division holds an annual...
by brightadmin | Jan 1, 2021 | Karolinas Message
Warm cheers from our family to yours for 2021 2020 is SO last year. It was a year we’ll all remember, and that many loved to hate online and in the media. It was a year that demanded tremendous strength and commitment from front-line and health-care workers, and...
