“Kids Enjoy Sporting Heritage Youth Day at Wausau School Forest” plus 2 more |
- Kids Enjoy Sporting Heritage Youth Day at Wausau School Forest
- Arthur Ashe Kids Day Lets Children Improve Their Tennis Skills For Free
- Califon Kids Care Club helps many causes
| Kids Enjoy Sporting Heritage Youth Day at Wausau School Forest Posted: 28 Aug 2010 04:00 PM PDT More than 200 kids and their parents enjoyed the great outdoors on Saturday at the Wausau School Forest in Mosinee. It was all part of the Sporting Heritage Youth Day put on by the DNR. Any child 8 years or older could attend. DNR wardens have seen attendance double since the event first started six years ago. "It's just an event to spark an interest in the outdoors. So many kids today are involved in video games and tv and that kind of thing and we just want to try to spark an interest in getting them outdoors and see how much fun it is to be outdoors," Randy Falstad, a DNR warden said. Activities ranged from learning how to shoot a bow and arrow to cooking in a dutch oven. Children ten years or older could head out to the shotgun range. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| Arthur Ashe Kids Day Lets Children Improve Their Tennis Skills For Free Posted: 28 Aug 2010 02:32 PM PDT Updated 08/28/2010 03:38 PM  To view our videos, you need to Children of all ages showed off their tennis skills on Saturday at the annual Arthur Ashe Kids Day at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens, while their parents and other family members cheered them on from the sidelines. At the annual event, tennis professionals offered the children free games and lessons at the Billie Jean King USTA National Tennis Center. Organizers from the United States Tennis Association also set up a mini-version of the game for very young children called "Quick Start," with smaller rackets and balls. "I learned how to do my forearm, a little backhand, how to catch the ball on my racket," said one child. Among those who took part in the festivities were 30 homeless teenagers from Covenant House and pediatric cancer patients visiting from the University of Texas MD Anderson Children's Cancer Hospital.The event offered much more than tennis games. "I actually braided my hair and they put beads in it. I got this little tattoo and you also get a phone book and a free ringtone and you get your face painted," said a participant. The day's free events intended to get children involved with exercise and fitness at a young age. "This is such a wonderful experience because many of the children have never played tennis before or have never seen a live tennis match," said Jamilliah Anderson of the Madison Square Boys and Girls Club. "We think it's one of the great ways to learn, not only sports skills but life skills," said Michael Fiur, the executive producer of Arthur Ashe Day. "For kids to become leaders, for kids to improve their education, there are all kinds of scholarship programs. So it's really about combining sports and education through the USTA's community tennis programs." The event ended with a sold-out concert featuring the Jonas Brothers, Demi Lovato and other singers. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| Califon Kids Care Club helps many causes Posted: 29 Aug 2010 06:46 AM PDT CALIFON -- Students in Califon Kids Care Club took on a year-long schedule of community service projects to solve real world problems and to take active roles in communities they are members of. The club started started in 2004 with the mission "to promote volunteerism in the entire student body on the local, state, national and international levels." They have put their motto "Caring, Pride and Service" into action. Advisors, first grade teacher Cynthia Behrens and school nurse Linda Patterson, have seen the rewards of community service learning for their students during the 2009-2010 school year. In February students raised funds for "pop-up" tents for SOS Children's Villages in Haiti after the January earthquake. The school hosted a Hasbro Play-a-thon, where students collected pledges and spent an evening coming together to play games with their classmates and families. The group also collected donations from the student body to support "Christmas Trees for Soldiers" that supplied fresh, decorated Christmas trees to soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. The group was able to send four trees. The projects have required active learning on the part of the students, as well as the integration of the schools' academic subjects. Baking bread and selling the loaves was a service project that had students practicing math and science skills in the bread making process, and also involved the student in a higher level of personal engagement. The proceeds from the bread sale benefited the Open Cupboard Food Pantry in Clinton. The Califon Kids Care Club has initiated other projects this year such as a One Hundredth Day of School Can Collection to collect food items for the North Hunterdon Food Pantry in Lebanon Township; a Clean Ocean Action Plastic Cap Collection to promote clean water environment for our ocean friends; an annual Spring Sock Hop where the cost of admission was a pair of new socks for the Open Cupboard Pantry; and a Pennies for Pencils project that collected donations for schoolchildren in Ghana, Africa to purchase school supplies. Behrens said the support of the school community of parents, teachers, and administrators has contributed to the success of the Kids Care Club. "Parents generously contribute their time, energy and talent to all our projects and we always have enthusiastic support from our teaching staff," she said. Plans for the future include gathering more student-generated ideas as well as the inclusion of projects integrated into the schools' curricula that supports community and global issues. "It has helped us to realize how great things can happen if each community member, school or individual contributes their time and talent. Children are rewarded by the feeling they get when they help others. They realize that they, together, can make a difference," said Behrens. The Califon Kids Care Club will be featured on an International Kids Care Club Web site as "Club of the Month." The following are comments from the readers. In no way do they represent the view of recordernewspapers.com. We encourage your feedback and dialog, all comments will be reviewed by our Web staff before appearing on the Web site. RecorderNewspapers.com requires readers to register with an e-mail address to leave comments. Registered users: This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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