Chris' Custom Shelves

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🪵 Garage Organization Business 🪵
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✔️ Organization/Handling
✔️ Removal Services
✔️ Shelving
✔️ ♻️ Bins/Bikes/Tool Racks
✔️ Epoxy
✔️ SMARTSLAT ©️
✔️ Metal Cabinetry
Mint Garage Inc.

06/14/2026

🔍 Why Word Searches Matter Before School Starts

Word searches may look like a simple activity, but they're helping children build some of the most important skills they'll need for success in school.

⭐ 1. Letter Recognition Before children can become confident readers and writers, they need to quickly recognize letters. Word searches encourage kids to scan, identify, and differentiate between letters, strengthening the foundation for future literacy skills.

⭐ 2. Pattern Recognition Finding words requires children to notice patterns, sequences, and relationships between letters. This ability to recognize patterns supports not only reading development but also early math and problem-solving skills.

⭐ 3. Building Attention Span Completing a word search takes focus, persistence, and concentration. As children work through the puzzle, they practice staying engaged with a task for longer periods of time—an essential skill for classroom learning.

The best part? Kids think they're just having fun while they're developing skills that will help them thrive when they walk through the school doors. 🎉

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06/12/2026

Go CANADA 🇨🇦

Item Removal + Garage Organization in ONE LOCATION 📍 The THRIFT is in -> The SHELVES are up! With our partnership betwee...
06/07/2026

Item Removal + Garage Organization in ONE LOCATION 📍
The THRIFT is in -> The SHELVES are up!
With our partnership between and , we are able to beat the competition and pass the savings to you.
DM us today to get started with your free garage consultation, talk solutions, and get your design ✨️

**Prices part of a complete package

06/06/2026

🎲 Why Kids Should Start Playing 2-Player Games at a Young Age 🧠

1️⃣ Learn to Take Turns – Develop patience, self-control, and sharing skills.

2️⃣ Build Math Skills – Count spaces, track scores, and practice basic arithmetic in a fun way.

3️⃣ Develop Strategic Thinking – Plan ahead, make decisions, and think through consequences.

4️⃣ Strengthen Social Skills – Communicate, cooperate, and interact respectfully with others.

5️⃣ Handle Wins and Losses – Build resilience, confidence, and good sportsmanship.

6️⃣ Enjoy Focused Play – Balance active play with quieter activities that encourage concentration.

7️⃣ Create Family Connections – Spend meaningful time with parents, grandparents, siblings, and friends.

8️⃣ Learn How to Learn – Follow rules, adapt to challenges, and improve through practice.

9️⃣ Become Open to New Experiences – Gain confidence trying unfamiliar games and activities.

🔟 Have Fun While Growing – The best games combine laughter, learning, and connection.

✨ A simple 2-player game can teach life skills that last far beyond childhood.

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06/05/2026

** AN IMPORTANT READ ** 📚
It's VERY difficult to know the breakdown of all the academic skills required by children to know before school. This isn't common knowledge.

For example, to start understanding JUST mental addition, kids need to be able to first count to 100. Then they must learn what addition is fundamentally. We start with 1 plus 1. 1 plus 2, 1 plus 3, just so they understand the conceot of ADDING ON and what that means. Once we get a good grasp of this, they must memorize their 10 sets. 1 + 9, 2 + 8, 3 + 7 and so forth. They can do this with their fingers, your fingers or flash cards. Once they have this, they must recognize there is a pattern between 10s, but they need to see this on a hundreds chart first. A visual must be placed in the house and then visited nightly. Patterns here look like "6 to 16 to 26 to 36 all have a 6 at the end". Once they recognize this and have counted through them dozens and dozens of times to practise, the can start realizing that because 6 + 4 = 10, then 16 + 4 = 20. This must mean 26 + 4 = 30. This is where number sense starts to form. The visual for this skill can be done with number lines jumping 1s and by 10s. Of course, each one of these steps takes weeks and weeks to build and develop. Some of these skills were necessary decades ago as kids HAD to learn skills like to to participate in household chores such as cooking. Nowadays, it is very normal that these hundreds of hours of preloading can be missed. It is difficult to find this much time, in this era of life. But it is necessary as the scores in schools everywhere are dropping.

In a nutshell, when a group of kindergarten kids start school, they are 4years old and in some way, learning 2 year old skills. We start kids 2 years behind essentially. When behaviours, emotions, sick days, snow days, holidays, assemblies, etc are added into a school year, it is very normal that a large group of these kids aren't moving forward a full year at a time. By grade 1, a student may be 3 years behind already.

Working with our kids regularly, with intent can really help. It doesn't need to be as intense as mentioned above, but kids require exposure to academics.

Stittsville job last night for a wonderful human. We meet so many people this way and it is one of the best perks of the...
06/05/2026

Stittsville job last night for a wonderful human. We meet so many people this way and it is one of the best perks of the job.
✔️ 26.5 feet of shelving
✔️ 5.5 foot movable workbench

06/03/2026

Students need text to world knowledge. They require a plethora of information to make connections and problem solve quickly and efficiently. Showing students extended content of what is being read to them, they flourish. When you continuously provide kids, aged 2-6, this knowledge in real time, they just keep adding it to their bank. Vocabulary grows, conversation abilities grow, knowledge grows, and thinking quickens.
It doesn't take long, and doesn't have to lead to anything other than a visualization of the topic.

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06/02/2026

Matching shirts 👕 ✨️ Sharp looking team !

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