Our juniors have been busy participating in our Summer Brain Activities where our Juniors, aged 4th through 6th grade, have the opportunity to continue their studies in writing, grammar, punctuation, and parts of speech. These take place on Tuesdays from 3-4 pm and Thursdays 10-11 am. Anyone can participate in our cooking classes as long as they sign up in advance. So far our teens and juniors have had the chance to make mini pizzas and s'mores, and our STARS have had the chance to make some cream puff cookies. This week, we have been serving 131 members each day and we have been offering members cooking classes twice a week that are led by our Kids Feeding Kids manager, Becky Rea. I cannot wait until our first harvest and we will be able to incorporate the food we grow into the food we eat.Īs part of our program, we also serve breakfast and lunch each day. Each week, Sarah has the members come back to the garden where they learn about the plants and help weed the garden. We have recently hired a new Garden Coordinator to make sure that our produce is well taken care of and a way for our members to be connected to the environment around them. A big thank you to Rachel Keener, Tim Schober, and the Associate Board members for volunteering the time to put the garden in. We have also spent time putting together an amazing garden in the back of our club. The VISTAS are just about finished with assessing our STARS to see where they are and then will do a second assessment at the end of the summer to see how they have improved! During morning meeting, our STARS Coordinator, Dianna Gadea-Rodriguez goes through the expectations and schedule for the day, and then members are put into literacy stations that focus on phonics: sight words, phonemic awareness, and fluency. Members first are served breakfast, and then they line up at the STARS room and have a seat on the rug for the morning meeting. We have the unique opportunity to have two MN Literacy Council VISTAS for three hours in the morning Monday through Friday to help support our mission.
In the STARS Room, with our K-3rd grade members, we have just started our summer reading program.
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