I hope everyone had an awesome spring break! I know we did here at Beacons!
We are back in full effect this week, and everyone was excited to come back to Beacons!
So, now that Beacons is up and running, I will take you along on my trip through Beacons today!Our kindergarten group is working hard on an exciting tap dance number for the Beacons talent show! Here is a shot of them hard at work during their dance practice today:
Next I stopped by Beats & Rhymes. This group is creating a CD of beats. Here they are getting an introduction to their studio.
Have you ever wondered how to make gum? Our beacon partners with the YWCA to run a Girl Power group. Girl Power works with our young women on super fun projects around math and science.I hung out with them and scored the recipe and instructions to making gum! Check it out:
1. Set out all of your ingredients: chicle, corn syrup, granulated sugar mixed with kool-aid, and powdered sugar.
2. Put chicle into a container and pour corn syrup on top. Stir.
3. Heat in microwave for approximately 50 seconds. Stir.
4. Pour in sugar/kool-aid mixture. Stir.
5. Pour in some powdered sugar to thicken. Stir until it is too thick to continue.
6. Pour the rest of the powdered sugar onto your table. Then pour your gum mixture onto the sugar. Be careful, it's really sticky!
7. Knead until it is firm like regular gum.
8. Roll into balls or make into any shape you want!
9. Enjoy!
Next, I stopped into Y's Start. Y's Start is a YMCA program where we introduce our young people to leadership and service learning. This group of young people work on a few projects per session, and they even get paid for all of their hard work. Today, they were reading their group contract, and planning some really exciting service learning projects. Check back for more updates on those!
2. Put chicle into a container and pour corn syrup on top. Stir.
3. Heat in microwave for approximately 50 seconds. Stir.
4. Pour in sugar/kool-aid mixture. Stir.
5. Pour in some powdered sugar to thicken. Stir until it is too thick to continue.
6. Pour the rest of the powdered sugar onto your table. Then pour your gum mixture onto the sugar. Be careful, it's really sticky!
7. Knead until it is firm like regular gum.
8. Roll into balls or make into any shape you want!
9. Enjoy!
Then it was academic time. I stopped in to the 6th grade classroom to find them reading books. Some of them were reading about the rain forest, and some about different scents.
After academics, it was time to go. Here is the tennis group unloading the super cool blue tennis bus!
Then everyone had to load the buses. Here are some shots of everyone taking off today.
Oh, and Beacons is not over after most of the students get on the bus to go home!Today we had a meeting of Beacons After Hours (BAH). BAH is a group of Sheridan students ranging from grades 1-8 that acts as a type of student council.
Our group is planning a family event here at our beacon, but today we worked on a plan for a BAH Beacons Store. Here is our group brainstorming ideas.
Then we discussed all of our ideas. Our young people lead the discussion. Here you can see them raising hands to get a turn. We pass around a 'talking stick' of sorts in the form of a rubber shark. You can't really see him in the picture, but he is at each BAH meeting and is an honorary member of our group!
We will update on all BAH activities here, so check back soon!
So that's it for a (Tues)day in the life of Sheridan Beacons this Spring Session! We have lots of cool new groups this session, so stay tuned to check out all of the new stuff we are doing here at Sheridan!!
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