Reading throughout the summer is the best way to prevent “summer slide” and go back to school ready to succeed. Plus, it is a really fun way to spend summer in the city!
A Minock Park Summer in the City Camper with the ever-popular Clifford.
This summer RX for Reading partnered with Summer in the City, which offers free, 8-week camps for local kids in seven Detroit locations–Northwest Activity Center, Latino Mission Society, Delray Recreation Center, Ford LaSalle Park and Focus: HOPE, Pasteur Elementary School, Hamtramck Community Center, and Minock Park. Campers get to read, play, do arts and crafts, sports, creative writing, and take Friday Field Trips throughout the city.
More summer reading at Minock Park.
RX for Reading provided a box of writing paper and new and gently used books for all seven Summer in the City camps–750 books in all. Campers got to read many of the books throughout the summer, and at “Finale Friday” kids chose whatever books they wanted to take home.
Summer in the City campers with some of their selections!
Our incredible RX for Reading volunteer and UDM School Psychology graduate student Beth Jordon.
Meet Mary Grahame Hunter–She said the highlight of her day was when a little girl chose “Mama Went to Jail for the Vote” (pictured here). When she asked the little girl if she was sure she answered emphatically, “Yes… I’m positive proudly”. Mary also loved giving a little boy a book on Willy Mays because he said he loved baseball. His grin stretched from ear to ear.
These girls are volunteers with Summer in the City. Yeva, on the right, immigrated from the Ukraine when she was 4. She said she had inspiring teachers that taught her the love of books, and that’s why today she is a Sociology & Pre-med Sophomore at Amherst. Mika, on the left, refused to read in grade school, but in middle school discovered Harry Potter and hasn”t stopped reading since. She is now a sophomore at Oakland university.
Lola loves stories–A Lola le encantan los cuentos!
This little boy, pictured here with his sisters and mother, said as they started to walk away, “Mama, can I go back and sit in the van because I want to read my book?”
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