I love themes! I believe they help us stay on track and incorporate fun and diversity in our Club experience. This school year I have revamped our daily schedule to be a group effort between our YDPs and our Unit Director at our Riverview Club (where we serve 1st - 3rd grade kiddos).
Our theme for Week One is All About Me. This gives the opportunity for Club members to get to know each other and reconnect with old friends.
Day One is a group activity where each member creates their own puzzle piece and we can use these to create a wall display featuring the members of each group. You can find this project on
Scholastic Teachables.
Day Two is part of the Healthy Habits program. We have created at pre/post test survey for use with grant monitoring. If you would like a copy of this to use with your site, just send me an email at jwood@bgcottawacounty.org.
Day Three is a Career Interest Survey that is part of our adapted Career Launch program. Since the national program is designed for older kids, we have adapted and created a program that fits with the age of Club members we serve. The survey that we use was created by College Foundation of North Carolina and is designed for elementary age kiddos. If you would like to use the same survey, you can find it
here.
Day Four is a project from the Youth for Unity program. We use this program along with Smart Moves for social / emotional learning.
Day Five is an adaptation of a project I have used during my days as a preschool teacher. I have found the easiest way to do this is to pair kids and have them work together tracing each other. If you have minimal space, you might opt to have members create a self portrait on regular size paper instead.
So, that's our first week in a nutshell. I'll be sharing our weekly program guides with our themes here as we go in case you want to adventure along with us.
