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FAMILY CREATIVE LEARNING Workshop 1—SEPTEMBER 23

At the Intersection of Joy & Learning!

The signs were up, the table and food were ready, and the computers were tested as the Family Creative Learning Facilitators waited anxiously for the arrival of the families who IMG_0003signed up to take part in a learning journey! At 5:30 PM the families—parents & children filled with anticipation—arrived! It didn’t take long for the energy level to go way up as we began our work together.

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Eating & Meeting!

Each meeting is divided into 4 parts—Eat, Meet, Make, and Share. As food was eaten, members of each family filled out About Me and About Us papers. Some of the information about everyone was shared and will be referenced as we grow and learn together. After a roadmap of the sessions was discussed and the demo of the MIT programming language, SCRATCH, was shown, the parents and children went to separate rooms to begin the Meet and Make portions of the workshop.

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SHARE

Now it was time for parents and children to share their creations in a gallery walk! Congratulations, questions, and next steps were shared by creators and viewers!

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Okay, we’ll say it…”it was AWESOME!”

Read the Updates each week and…

Meet us at the INTERSECTION of JOY & LEARNING!

To find out more about the MakerSpaces, Family Creative Learning, and to follow our learning journey, go to: Programs, Activities, & Events and scroll to click: MakerSpaces, Family Creative Learning.

To view more pictures from our first FCL workshop, scroll to the bottom of this page or…go to:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/94586969@N04/sets/72157658672132410

September = New Learning!

FIRST DAY OF KINDERGARTEN

Annually, The Friends and Volunteers present a gift bag to each kindergarten child in bell-37464_1280the Ocean City School system. The Friends and Volunteers purchase the materials, assemble the bags, and deliver them to the primary school at the beginning of each school year. Each bag contains an age-appropriate book, a box of crayons, a pencil, a sketch or note pad, a bookmark, and tissues. Our goal is to encourage young students to enjoy reading. What better way than to have a book of their own!

FAMILY CREATIVE LEARNING

NEW THIS YEAR—The Friends and Volunteers of the Ocean City Free Public Library in collaboration with the Ocean City Public School District and the Ocean City Free Public Library will work with families in a 5 week workshop series designed by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab.

In Family Creative Learning, we engage parents and children [ages 6 to 12] in workshops to design and learn together with creative technologies, like the Scratch programming language and the MaKey MaKey invention kit. Just as children’s literacy can be supported by parents reading with them, children’s creativity can be supported by parents creating with them.

Look for more information and follow the learning journey mid-September.