Pritzker College Prep Visits Rowe

AmeriCorps teacher from Pritzker College Prep, Mr. Cella, escorted five freshmen volunteers to Rowe Elementary School’s After School Program on Friday, April 27, 2012. Pritzker students learned how to facilitate creative writing activities during sessions with 826CHI. The high school students guided scholars from K-4 through the process of creating their own characters and brainstorming unique stories about those characters. Overall, was a great time. The volunteers showed strong facilitation skills and genuine interest in working with Rowe scholars.

The Marvels of Marbles!

In the Glover room, once again, Mr. Zak showed the students a great and easy art activity! All you need is a few marbles, paper, a tray and paint to create a magnificent marble painting! Mr. Zak had the students tilt the tray in different directions to create unique patterns on the paper. The kids enjoyed watching the marble flow through the paint to create a new color. This creative activity can be done at school or at home, so have a ball!

Juniors Clean-Up Eckhart Park

 

The Juniors from the Northwestern Settlement were thinking about other children instead of themselves by cleaning up the playground area at Eckhart Park.  While cleaning the playground area, there were positive comments made by parents at the park with their children. One parent stated, ” Thank you guys for help cleaning up the playground area. Your doing a noble thing and that is wonderful.” – Parent at Eckhart Park

International Celebration

All School Age Programs came together for an international lunch on Friday afternoon. Each program has picked a country to represent for the upcoming Day of the Child Celebration and prepared a dish to share with the other groups.Needless to say, the food was delicious and every child was excited to be apart of this great event.

Sing a Song of England!

The Extended Day students had England as their country of choice for the upcoming event: Day of the Child. In practicing their knowledge of England, we invited a special guest named Keavagh, who is originally from England! Keavagh engaged the students in an English nursery rhyme, Sing a Song of Sixpence, which involved a lot of singing and dancing. She also made a coloring page for the students to keep, which included the nursery rhyme.

The Health Train 2012

The Health Train strives to teach children and parents about healthy food and healthy habits. There were 5 stations for the children to engage in. The activities invovled were physical activities, fun educational activities to do other than playing video games, drinking flavored water, and healthy snack eating. Jump on Board!

 

St. Patrick’s Day

Head Start was colored green this past week in celebration of St. Patrick’s Day.  They wore their favorite green clothes and St. Patrick’s Day gear to celebrate this Irish Holiday.  Extended Day made tostadas topped with green sour cream and green peppers cut in the shape of four leaf clovers. The children also made leprechaun hats and decorated them with clovers. These children will be all ready for Chicago’s Annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade. The Parade is on Saturday March 17 at 12:00pm and  starts at E.  Monroe and S. Columbus.

Pulaski Day Bazaar 2012

Who would ever think to come to school on a day off? Well the students came in and experienced a fun time at The Northwestern Settlement Bazaar on Pulaski Day. The students also celebrated the birthday of Chicago with a balloon release with notes in balloons.

 

Heating Up with Head Start!

It was a beautiful day and the Head Start students took advantage  of it by going to play at Eckhart Park.  It was a record-breaking 77 degrees this week and the only thing left to do was go outside and play! It is reflected on the children’s faces that all they wanted was some fun in the sun.

Jack and the Beanstalk

On Monday March 5, both Head Start classes will be going on a field trip to see Jack and the Beanstalk at the Chicago Symphony. In preparation for this exciting day each classroom has incorporated Jack, the Giant, and those magic beans into their lesson plans. The students have planted beans to make their own beanstalk, acted out the story with costumes and props, and created many arts and craft projects with beans and beanstalks. Also, two members of the Chicago Symphony came to each class to sing, dance, and to really get the students immersed in the story.