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Hoppers Movie Review & Learning Activities

We recently saw an early release of the Disney & Pixar'd movie, Hoppers. Some kids’ movies are made to distract. Others quietly invite children to think more deeply about the world around them. Hoppers lands firmly in the second category. At first glance, it looks like a fast-paced animated adventure. But beneath the humor and movement is a story that challenges kids to consider perspective, responsibility, and what it really means to interact with nature rather than simply observe it. Animation Review: Visual Storytelling That Serves the Message The animation in Hoppers does far more than entertain. Because the story centers on a human consciousness transferred into a robotic animal body, the film relies heavily on movement, sensory cues, and point-of-view shifts to communicate meaning. The camera drops low to the ground. Sounds feel sharper. Reactions are instinctual rather than verbal. Animals move like animals, not humans in costumes. For children, this makes the...
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I Live In Canada...Canada Day 2021 Reflections

A picture of 3 First Nations children in traditional dress
Photo Credit: Harvard Political Review 


I live in Canada...where are you from? What a question! I’ve asked it so many times during the videos I’ve shared over on the Tot Tutor channel but today this question has been cause for pause. Canada Day hit differently for many Canadians this year, following the grizzly discoveries of mass indigenous child burial grounds. 

Canada Day will never be the same again and maybe that's what's best. 

Many Canadians spent much of the day mourning and talking about the people who were here before us and the descendants who have been traumatized by the genocide.

I took time to learn about the Métis, the Inuk, the Mississaugas and the Three Fires Confederacy and others who stewarded the  land in days gone by and grieved at the historic mistreatment of the First Nations here and everywhere. 

Unfortunately this is a shared history in the Americas, Caribbean and elsewhere in the world and we need to make sure our young ones know the complete story of those who first inhabited these lands, their relationship to the land and how they took care of it.

We can also talk about big topics like friendship, broken promises, treaties and reconciliation.

Teaching accurate and complete histories (even if unpleasant and painful) to the upcoming generation is one way we can play our part in raising global citizens and  making sure the ugly parts of history never repeat themselves. ♥️




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