Kid’s Kollege offers fun learning opportunities
by LaJuan Tallo
5/01/2008

Looking for something educational and fun to start the summer? Northwest Mississippi Community College’s Kid’s Kollege may be just what you are looking for!

This summer’s Kid’s Kollege kicks off with four exciting classes in early June. Registration deadline for the summer’s first offerings is May 23. All classes will be held on the Senatobia campus.

Dino Dig will be offered June 2-5 from 9-11 in Yalobusha Hall, Room 12. The class is open to grades 5K- 2. Beginning paleontologists learn about dinosaurs and the techniques used in extracting fossils in this hands-on class. Students will go on their own fossil dig, analyze and assemble skeleton pieces, produce a fossil reconstruction, create a mural, and take home a movie of discoveries. The class will be taught by the Computer Explorer Staff, and the fee is $105.

Back by popular demand is the 007 Secret Agent Camp using Legos. This class will also be offered June 2-5 from 1-4 p.m. in Yalobusha Hall, Room 120. The class will be offered for grades 3-7. Kids become detectives going on missions to solve high-tech crimes and bring criminals to justice using Lego Spybotics. Participants will assemble a robot and use technology to save the world! Each student will be given a workbook and an 007 Secret Agent ID card. The camp will be taught by the Computer Explorer Staff, and the fee is $130.

Poetry Party with instructor Jody Jarjoura will be held in the Art Building June 2-6 from 9 a.m.- noon for grades 3-6. Just as form and color are used to create art, so are words. During this poetry writing experience participants will write poems using different patterns and poetry styles. They will incorporate the elements of art as they illustrate their final product. The class will conclude with a “Poetry Party” where students will have the opportunity to share the poems they have compiled into their own poetry books. The fee for Poetry Party is $80.

Jarjoura will also offer Imagination Celebration! June 2-6 from 1-4 p.m. for grades 2-4. Participants will engage in creative thinking tasks using fluency, flexibility, originality and elaboration. Students will discuss and illustrate topic choices. Tasks include creating a new game, designing a hat, building a leaning tower of pasta and constructing a protective container for an egg drop. The class will be held in the Art Building, and the fee for the class is $80.

The registration deadline for these classes is Friday, May 23. For more information, contact Patricia Lowder, coordinator of Continuing Education at 562-3349 or e-mail pwlowder@northwestms.edu.