Amigo News

This week the kids continued working on the Day of the Dead decorations, making paper cempasuchil (marigold) flowers for the altar, they also decorated cups for pencil/pen holders, learned names of body parts in English by creating a life sized drawing, practiced the musical notes using do re mi, and rehearsed the "Los Viejitos" [...]

This past week the children had a carpentry activity with volunteer Jamie. They made wooden animal sculptures. Each piece was a unique creation made from scrap wood pieces and included moving parts. They always love these hands-on activities and taking home their work to show off what they made. The younger children have been [...]

The children at the Kids Club are learning about manners and respect this week. They had activities centered on how to treat others with respect and conflict avoidance and resolution. They also learned vocabulary and phrases in English and Spanish that show respect in their language classes. The children are working with clay in the [...]

One of the main objectives of the Amigos De la cruz Kids Club is to keep the kids off the street unsupervised. Classes at the school were canceled for Independence day but we still had classes at the kids club. We got to see the parade and had activities for all the kids that [...]

We are pleased to have many new students at the kids Club this year. Many of the parents have expressed the desire to reinforce the reading, writing and literacy skills. We have begun doing preliminary assessments to best meet the needs of the students in our programs for the first term this year. We [...]

We started the fall session for Kids Club this week. We have many new students to the program this year. It is great that new children and families are taking advantage of the education and recreation opportunities at the Kids Club. We enjoyed some games and activities to get to know each other and [...]