Sara here - I work with the members in the 21st Century Program at the Club after school & we wanted to connect with our members through the Virtual Learning Blog. Check back every week for a new activity, challenge, or experiment! I hope you all enjoyed reading James and the Giant Peach! I hope to be able to follow up by watching the movie this summer. For this weeks activity: Draw an image of what you would picture cloudmen would look like Feel free to draw them doing something the book states they are doing For example; the cloudmen painting the giant arc. Zoom Announcement: This Thursday 6/11 will be our last Zoom. This week I would like you to start reading The Book Wanderers Chapters 1-6. Happy reading, see you Thursday! -Sara

Review the latest chapter, draw a scene, & be sure to join us Thursday in our Zoom meeting!

Sara here - I work with the members in the 21st Century Program at the Club after school & we wanted to connect with our members through the Virtual Learning Blog. Check back every week for a new activity, challenge, or experiment! Last week we started our book club. If you are not a part of the book club i hope you are still enjoying the books and goodie bag! We started off with reading chapters 1-13 of James And The Giant Peach. We got off to a bad start with many of our members unable to access our zoom meeting, but this week we will redeem ourselves! A quick recap of what we have read so far: James was happy living with his parents when tragedy struck and he had to move in with his two terrible aunts. James was now living an unhappy life in their shack at the top of the hill and had to do everything his aunts told him. He had no friends and worked all day long doing chores while the two aunts laid out on the porch. James meets an old man and the old man hands him a bag of magic green things. James accidentally trips and spills the bag of magic in the dirt and they start making magic beneath the soil. Later on they notice a peach on the tree that never grows peaches and it keeps getting bigger and bigger. It got so unusually big, the two aunts set up a fence around it and charged people to come and see it. Later on that night James finds a whole in the peach and he crawls through the tunnel to find ginormous bugs inside the core of the peach. Activity instructions: Favorite Character Draw a picture of your favorite character checkout my EXAMPLE Admission Ticket create / design you own ticket to see the peach make sure you include the cost of admission checkout my EXAMPLE Advertising Poster Design a poster to advertise the viewing of the Giant Peach include the COST, TIME, DATE, and LOCATION. Use your imagination for the rest! HAVE FUN & BE CREATIVE! This week you will read chapters 14-26. The zoom meeting will be Thursday 5/28 at 11:30! See you Thursday, happy reading! - Sara

Sara here - I work with the members in the 21st Century Program at the Club after school & we wanted to connect with our members through the Virtual Learning Blog. Check back every week for a new activity, challenge, or experiment! This week you will be given the opportunity to explore on your own, back to the drawing board. You will use your creative minds to play a fun at home game with your friends. Activity Instructions : What I want you to do is create your own game at home to play by yourself or with other family members. This game can be one of a kind or a recreation of an existing game. It can be anything you want! You create the game, You create the rules! For example : I recreated a game like tic-tac-toe fitness style. I used chalk to draw out a medium size tic-tac-toe board on my driveway. I did not have bean bags so I used rolled up socks instead. My game rules : Draw a line about 10 feet behind your board You and another person take turns throwing your “socks” If your socks land in a square the other person has to do an exercise of your choice. You keep playing until you get…….three in a row! Be creative and have fun! If you would like to, post a picture of your game in the comments so maybe others can try it out. This week we are starting our book club. The first book we will be reading is James and The Giant Peach! Reminder that we will be having a 21st Century Zoom meeting this Thursday 5/21 @11:30 , it is not mandatory ! -Sara

This week, checkout the app "SEEK" & explore and learn about nature in your back yard!

Sara here - I work with the members in the 21st Century Program at the Club after school & we wanted to connect with our members through the Virtual Learning Blog. Check back every week for a new activity, challenge, or experiment! For this week's activity we are going to continue practicing mindfulness and movement as well as learning a few important concepts needed to become a 21st century shining star... Activity Instructions: • Open up GoNoodle & Scroll down and click on “ Think About It ” Channel. Listen to: “Be Kind” “Forgive Others” “Be Grateful” “Help Others” Once you have listen to all four, go back to the home page & find the “ FLOW ” channel. Listen to: “Let’s Unwind” “Victorious” Feel free to explore this website and check out all the other channels! GoNoodle is great for helping a beginner learn to explore the many ways to be mindful and the many effects it has on our body. Just like i said last week, keep practicing how to be a mindful SHINING STAR! -Sara

Let's practice MINDFULNESS!