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Home Learning Pods Accepting Students for Spring and Summer 2021

Home Learning Pods Accepting Students for Spring and Summer 2021

Bennett Live is accepting students for the Spring and Summer Home Learning Pods. We’re Designed for early childhood, Bennett Live Pods is a small group, healthy-screen-time-based learning program available nationally for children aged 3-5 years. Perfect for preparing the littlest learners for the world of school, the program is now accepting students for the spring and summer sessions. Created by Bennett Labs, the Bennett Live Pods are inspired by the learning design at Bennett Day School, an independent school in West Town, Chicago. “Centered on being creative, active, and exploring around the screen, Bennett Live Pods provide children with space to explore, create and connect with other children,” said Dr. Kelly Page, Director of Bennett Labs. 

Launch of Mobile Application, Bennett Live

Launch of Mobile Application, Bennett Live

Bennett Labs Announces Launch of Mobile Application, Bennett Live, Igniting Joy And Creativity In Learning. Available today, Bennett Live offers engaging and healthy media and educational learning for children ages 3-18 co-led by inspiring professional educators, designers, and learners. Grounded in learning through doing and developing a growth mindset, Bennett Live is guided by ten pedagogical principles drawn from a progressive philosophy of learning by doing and human development. Bennett Live is accessible via its website, mobile application, and social channels for children, families, and schools everywhere.

Red Tricycle: Weekend Inspiration! Here’s Your Family Fun Plan

Red Tricycle: Weekend Inspiration! Here’s Your Family Fun Plan

Bennett Live as featured in Red Tricycle: Weekend Inspiration – Here’s Your Family Fun Plan! Prediction: You’re in for a weekend of non-stop fun. We’d put money on it. Take a music or dance class in your living room, participate in a virtual 5K benefiting Lurie Children’s Hospital, bake popular local recipes from Chicago Hiltons and more! Read on for our Editor’s picks for a perma-smile kinda weekend … Get Creative with Bennett Live Creative Play is a Reggio Emilia-inspired creative and play-based exploration program where students can explore ideas and investigate the world they live in.

Chicago Parent: Exploring with Mr. Reynolds

Chicago Parent: Exploring with Mr. Reynolds

Exploring with Mr. Reynolds featured in Chicago Parent Events. Exploring with Mr. Reynolds is a creative problem-solving program for Grades 2-6 where students can explore their ideas and investigate the world around them. Each day, Mr. Reynolds inspires curiosity and home-based exploration for students in their homes all over the world.

Chicago Parent: Creative Play and Mrs. Cunningham

Chicago Parent: Creative Play and Mrs. Cunningham

Creative Play with Mrs. Cunningham featured in Chicago Parent Events. Creative Play with Mrs. Cunningham is a Reggio Emilia-inspired creative and play-based exploration program for PreK to Grade 1 where students can explore ideas and investigate the world they live in.

Red Tricycle: Weekend Inspiration! Get Creative with Bennett Live

Red Tricycle: Weekend Inspiration! Get Creative with Bennett Live

Bennett Live Creative Play with Mrs. Cunningham featured in Red Tricycle: Weekend Inspiration! Here’s your Family Fun Plan! This weekend we’re testing if it’s possible to have too much fun. Our hypothesis is. . . Not a chance! Put our theory to the test with virtual classes, family movie nights, zoo check-ins and more! Read on for our Editor’s picks for having a blast in the Windy City! (Oh, and happy Mother’s Day, of course!). Virtual Events – Get Creative with Bennett Live.

Good Housekeeping: A Definitive List of the Best Livestreams for Kids to Watch

Good Housekeeping: A Definitive List of the Best Livestreams for Kids to Watch

Bennett Live as featured in Good Housekeeping: A Definitive List of Best Livestreams for Kids to Watch!If they can’t go out, bring story readings, sing-alongs, and dance parties home with these livestreams. With rules of social distancing in full effect, kids are spending a lot more time indoors — and online. Bennett Live: Chicago’s Bennett Day School has launched free, virtual hourlong classes via Facebook Live that are open to everybody in topics like Creative Play.

Neighborhood Parents Network: Exploring with Mr. Reynolds

Neighborhood Parents Network: Exploring with Mr. Reynolds

Exploring with Mr. Reynolds featured on Neighborhood Parents Network: Chicago Events. Bennett Live is engaging media programming that is accessible for families and students everywhere via Bennett Day School’s Facebook page and YouTube channel. The mission is to inspire young designers, creators, and makers through project-based learning at home, and to advance a child’s creativity and their development as lifelong learners and leaders.

Neighborhood Parents Network: Creative Play at Bennett Day School

Neighborhood Parents Network: Creative Play at Bennett Day School

Creative Play with Mrs. Cunningham features in Neighborhood Parents Network Events. Bennett Live is engaging media programming that is accessible for families and students everywhere via Bennett Day School’s Facebook page and YouTube channel. The mission is to inspire young designers, creators, and makers through project-based learning at home, and to advance a child’s creativity and their development as lifelong learners and leaders.

Red Tricycle: Exploring with Mr. Reynolds

Red Tricycle: Exploring with Mr. Reynolds

Exploring with Mr. Reynolds featured in Red Tricycle: Chicago Events Exploring with Mr. Reynolds is a creative problem-solving program for Grades 2-6 (Ages 7-12) where students can explore their ideas and investigate the world around them.