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CMA Kids News
Updated May 12, 2013: CMA Kids News is now hosting a Summer Camp starting July 15, 2013. Please visit our calendar for all the details.
Original article published on 9/23/11: It all started with PressFriends, a non-profit organization launched in 2008 that helps elementary students write articles and produce a student newspaper. But what makes PressFriends truly unique is that it was founded by kids and is still run by kids for kids.
The young founding students all enjoyed editing stints running the school newspaper at Dapplegray Elementary in Rolling Hills Estates and decided to share this fun way of building important life skills with elementary schools serving low-income communities.
"We started in Title 1 elementary schools with a program to make writing fun" said Debora Chan-Southwell, a PressFriends board member and Student Advisory Board parent.
PressFriends has expanded from helping one elementary school produce a newspaper to seven schools, plus two organizations. And that's where CMA fits in. Chan-Southwell contacted CMA to find out if the Aquarium would be interested in jointly hosting a PressFriends workshop and CMA staff enthusiastically responded yes! What a great way to encourage writing and learn more about the ocean and marine life… CMA Kids News was born.
Check out a recent issue of CMA Kids News.
"We give elementary students some basic writing skills, but it's really about having fun," said Chan-Southwell. "We came to Cabrillo because after my son became a docent, we were strongly influenced by Cabrillo's teaching techniques. We started using a lot of games like Cabrillo does, anything that we could do to make writing fun."
As part of the new partnership between CMA and PressFriends, there will be three CMA Kids News workshops hosted each year for third, fourth and fifth graders. And the best part is that participants will have the chance to see their name in print in CMA Kids News, the newspaper produced after each event featuring at least one completed article by every student.
Post Date: Sunday, May 12, 2013
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