Simon says: No stopping the possibilities for LINC's big summer
Tunneling fun marks some of the summer activities at LINC’s Caring Communities at Lee A. Tolbert Community Academy.
“Simon says . . .”
A giggling pod of grade schoolers in LINC’s summer Caring Communities program at Conn-West Elementary School in Grandview poised for the next directive. Frozen in anticipation.
“. . . do your favorite dance move!”
For a moment the children looked wide-eyed at each others faces, their minds racing with so many possibilities.
And then they were off all at once — a dazzling array of gyrations, spins and leg kicks — as varied and entertaining as LINC’s menu of summer recreational and educational fun.
Simon Says games helped get the first summer school after-school-day going at Conn-West Elementary.
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“Stop,” said the LINC staffer leading the game. And the dancers froze. And immediately they realized even as the game leader told them that she had not said, “Simon says,” setting off a laughing, groaning wail as they tumbled to the carpet.
Enjoying s’mores at Carver Dual Language Elementary
Whether Simon says it or not, there’s nothing stopping the possibilities of what LINC has in store for its Caring Communities summer school programs this year.
LINC is running 15 before- and after-school programs at all of the sites holding summer school in LINC’s partner schools in the Kansas City Public Schools, the Hickman Mills, Grandview, Center and North Kansas City school districts and Lee A. Tolbert Community Academy Charter School.
Playground fun at Topping Elementary School.
LINC is also running several summer clubs at elementary schools in the Fort Osage School District.
Summer programs are working once again with the many LINC partners like Mad Science, Kansas City Young Audiences, Fitness 4 Life, Urban TEC and Scouting. And field trips are back in business as many of the previous restrictions during Covid have been eased.
“In addition to the many enrichment activities, students will also attend field trips,” said LINC Caring Communities Administrator Sean Akridge.
Some of those events, he said, include trips to Lake Jacomo for fishing in partnership with the Missouri Department of Conservation, the Wonder Scope Children's Museum, the KC Zoo, I-Fly Indoor Sky Diving and more.
LINC is also partnering with Kansas City Young Audiences to provide scholarships for 100 LINC students to participate in a week-long summer camp in dance, music, theater and visual arts.
Photos and videos from the opening days of summer school programs capture the scenes at a collection of LINC Caring Community sites across several school districts.
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Art with geometric shapes at Ervin Elementary School.