San Francisco Summer Learning Network: FREE summer weekday kids' arts activities @ Stern Grove! Call now

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

FREE summer weekday kids' arts activities @ Stern Grove! Call now

Check out these fantastic free activities at Stern Grove (19^th and Sloat, served by many Muni lines). Hurry and register while there’s still room!

Kids Days are interactive and fun arts education programs for children ages 4-13.

Kids Days are open to the public and admission-free. Pre-registration is required.

PLEASE NOTE: Groups of 10 or more, call Alyssa Stone at 415.252.6252 x108 or email astone@sterngrove.org to register.

74th Season Kids Days

Build a Band Kids Day with Magik*Magik Orchestra
June 28(Wed.), 29 (Thurs.), and 30 (Fri.)
11:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Sigmund Stern Grove, 19th Avenue and Sloat Blvd.

Cuban Dance and Culture Kids Day with Dance Mission
July 5 (Tues.), 6 (Wed.), and 7 (Thurs.)
11:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Sigmund Stern Grove, 19th Avenue and Sloat Blvd.

Modern Dance and Theater Kids Day with LEAP…imagination in learning
July 12 (Tues.), 13 (Wed.) and 14 (Thurs.)
11:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Sigmund Stern Grove, 19th Avenue and Sloat Blvd.

Kids Day with San Francisco Ballet Center
for Dance EducationJuly 26 (Tues.), 27 (Wed.) and 28 (Thurs.)
11:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Sigmund Stern Grove, 19th Avenue and Sloat Blvd.

Flamenco and Brazilian Samba Kids Day with Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
August 9 (Tues.), 10 (Wed.), 11 (Thurs.)
11:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Sigmund Stern Grove, 19th Avenue and Sloat Blvd.

2 comments:

Take My Word For It!May 15, 2011 at 10:45 PM
Caroline-

How can I add a post about our summer camps to this blog?

Sondra Hall, Director
"Take My Word For It!" - creative writing programs for kids
sondra@takemywordforit.net
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carolineMay 24, 2011 at 2:49 PM
Hi Sondra -- sorry I didn't see your comment! Please e-mail me at cgrannan@gmail.com. (Can you work with existing summer programs as an enrichment resource, or do you just enroll students individually?)
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A summer without enrichment is a summer with learning loss

“Deprived of healthy stimulation, millions of low-income kids lose a significant amount of what they learn during the school year. Call it 'summer learning loss,' as the academics do, or 'the summer slide,' but by any name summer is among the most pernicious — if least acknowledged — causes of achievement gaps in America's schools. Children with access to high-quality experiences can exercise their minds and bodies at sleep-away camp, on family vacations, in museums and libraries and enrichment classes. Meanwhile, children without resources languish on street corners or in front of glowing screens. By the time the bell rings on a new school year, the poorer kids have fallen weeks, if not months, behind. …

"And what starts as a hiccup in a 6-year-old's education can be a crisis by the time that child reaches high school. A major study by researchers at Johns Hopkins University concluded that while students made similar progress during the school year, regardless of economic status, the better-off kids held steady or continued to advance during the summer — while disadvantaged students fell back. By the end of grammar school, low-income students had fallen nearly three grade levels behind. By ninth grade, roughly two-thirds of the learning gap separating income groups could be blamed on summer learning loss.”

-- Time Magazine, "The Case Against Summer Vacation," Aug. 2, 2010

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FREE summer weekday kids' arts activities @ Stern Grove! Call now

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