Amigo News

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 [...]

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 [...]