🌞 RCS Summer SOAR: Final Week Highlights! 🌿

We wrapped things up in the best way possible during our final week of Summer SOAR! Our week ended with a healthy eating lesson at Spencer City Park, thanks to our partners from WVU Extension, Brandy Brabham and Kellie Rose. Students even planted their own herb gardens to take home!

We enjoyed a mindfulness scavenger hunt on Ben’s Run Trail, where we spotted a couple snakes 🐍, animal tracks, feathers🪶 , flowers 🌼, spider webs 🕸️, and so much more! All while taking a healthy hike and practicing mindfulness as a SOAR family.

☀️ 🏊‍♀️ Tuesday brought fun in the sun at the Spencer City Pool, although Thursday’s visit was rained out ⛈️ .

🧺 Indoors, the fun continued! A special highlight was working with Ms. Shrekengost and Ms. Beard to create our very own handmade baskets to take home as a reminder of the unique experiences we had during Summer SOAR. This was a challenging activity, but a student favorite by far.

📖✏️ Academically, we stayed engaged with iReady, real-world math lessons like measuring our ingredients for snack bags and money-counting 💵, and a science activity on absorbency at the pool. 🧽

✍️ 🖼️ Students illustrated and wrote about their favorite part of Summer SOAR as another academically engaging activity!

🧘‍♀️ We also completed our mindfulness books, adding additional illustrations, writing inserts, and thoughtful reflections.

😮‍💨 Students learned about a variety of breathing strategies, how to solve problems, resolve conflicts appropriately, and the importance of building healthy friendships and relationships.

🍨 I almost forgot we celebrated an amazing summer with ice cream sundaes and homemade pepperoni rolls, courtesy of our incredible SOAR cook, Melissa Strickland! 🧑‍🍳 🥖

It was truly the best last week EVER — and an unforgettable summer. 🥰

THANK YOU to everyone who made it special! 💛

Thank you to the parents for allowing us to spend the summer with your kids — they are great! 💛

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4 months ago, Melinda Parkins
Mindfulness writing
Herb Gardens
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Ben’s Run Trail for a hike
Ice Cream Sundaes
Our last pool day!

The Roane County Board of Education will meet in a Special Session on Thursday, July 31 at 5:00 pm. The purpose of this meeting will be to allow board members and members of the county leadership team to work through options to reduce the financial deficit and address concerns raised in the WVBE State of Emergency for Roane County Schools. The meeting will take place in the library of Roane County High School.

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5 months ago, Michelle Stellato
The WV Board of Education has declared a State of Emergency in Roane County Schools. You can view the entire segment (starts approximately at the 55 minute mark) using the following link.

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A heartfelt thank you to the City of Spencer for generously donating the pool passes and supporting healthy habits in our community!
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