Kennedy Heights Community Center

On WEdnesday November 7th the Early Childhood and After School programs hosted Kennedy Heights Community CEnter's 3rd annual family literacy night. The Girls Inc. group and the Youth program middle school participants volunteered at the event. The family event. The family event attracted over 60 Kennedy Heights families to the center for an evening of community literacy activities. the community center provided dinner and a vareity of family literacy learning stations for all ages. Children created bookmarks, fished for words, played word BINGO, participated in a family story-time, and enjoyed misucal performances that included both pop songs and Hmong traditional music and dance.

United Way of Dane Couty provided early literacy bags to distribute to every child. the bags contained crayons, paper, glue, puzzles, a book, and a list of activities for families to do together at home.

A huge thank you to the staff, the youth volunteers, United Way, and all the families that attended to make the event a success and a new Kennedy Heights tradition.