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June 02, 2008
Kids on the Road
Migrant Education provides for the children of families who work in our fields and groves. These children move with the seasons and the harvest yet they need an education. The folks in these programs make sure migrant children get opportunities for learning and school.
Last week I had the good fortune to work with a group of the Migrant Ed staff from our area while they were planning their summer program. Children of migrant families are involved in a number of summer projects-school, summer food programs, and field trips. There was one trip being planned for Turtle Bay and I was ready to go with them. I haven’t been there since they were still in construction. It sounded like fun.
My job for the day was to provide activities for parents to do with their children. We tried out a number of activities from my Parent Playbook series, played games, and made Dream booklets from magazines. All are activities parents can do, are easy, fun, and require little in the way of materials. Since the activities are matched to state learning standards, doing them will help the road based kids keep up with children who are in their neighborhood school. Now that the activities have been personally tested by the Migrant Ed staff, they can be shared with the parents.
They took this pretty seriously. There was a least one domino’s game where the winner got a Starbucks. I loved their involvement as they matched numbers and added scores. In the end we all agreed, the real winners will be the kids who can beat us!
Posted by Dr Joni at June 2, 2008 05:18 PM