Youth Programs

We are currently working on some programs with youth groups. One is a group of home schoolers from the Phoenix area. Another is a group of students from Beaver Creek School in Rimrock, an area just southeast of Sedona, Arizona. Another project, interestingly enough, is a mixture of some young girls from each group.

One of the home-schooled students, (or 'un'schooled as she likes to call it) involved with the Roots and Shoots program, wrote a neat poem that I wanted to share with you here.

Laura with a chicken

Here is some general information on the current programs we're working on.

RMS COOKBOOK

Skills Encouraged: Writing, team building, organizational skills, nutrition, healthy cooking and eating, communication- oral and written

Team: Members and affiliates of Roots and Shoots

BEADING FUND RAISER

Skills Encouraged: Team building, fund raising, hand-crafting,

Team: Twelve year old students under direction of Bella Donna and Denise Malavasi.

GIRL'S WILDERNESS LIVING CAMP - SUMMER 2008/FIVE-DAY PROGRAM

Chairperson- Laura Montero, 12-year old student of Beaver Creek Elementary

Skills Encouraged- Planning and leading, Community service, Organizational skills, organic farming, nutrition, healthy cooking and eating

Bella and the farm girls

Bella and the farm girls....
yes, Bella is in there somewhere....

School Bell,
No More!

No more school bell,

Or rushing crowds

Through the endless maze of halls.

No more grades, due dates,

Schedules or essays.

No more 'show and tell'

And definitely less stress.

Just living life the

Way I want

Even it if is in

A dress.

Walking through

A garden

One rainy afternoon.

Reading a book,

Savoring its pages,

of a land where there's

No hatred.

With no clock around

Me.

Afternoon dissolves into

Night. As endless

Opportunities that

Life gives me,

Skips those

Who

Have a school

Bell.

Who, unlike me

Aren't full of glee.

Every day.

For I am without

A school bell.

by Leah Atlee

We encourage parent involvement in all school activities!