Amigo News

The children were excited to return to the pool for swimming classes and practice this week at the Kids Club. We are also beginning to make some crafts that will be for sale at our fundraiser in february. We began making handcrafted soaps, mixing the ingredients, melting, and using molds to create some fun [...]

The children are practicing Ukuleles, the advanced students are learning more chords for the piece they will be performing at the winter presentation in December. We welcomed a special guest Esau Galvan this week. He is a local  professional guitarist who came to play for the children and was the subject for the children's' [...]

Our Day of the Dead Altar this year is probably the most elaborate we have created at the Kids Club. All of the children and parents have participated in the process and contributed items to commemorate their lost loved ones. This year we featured The Mexican artist Frida Khalo. The children learned about her [...]

The children have started working on the garden for this year. They learned a lot from their project last year and know that soil preparation and amendment is very important to the success of the plants. This week they worked removing the rocks and debris and adding compost and topsoil to the planter. We are [...]

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 [...]