Club Compass Updates – March 2025

🌟 Club Compass March Updates 🌟

Spring is in the air at Club Compass. It was a short month as most of the kids enjoyed spring break. Back at Club Compass, the programs keep on hopping.

Enrichment:

Thank you to our Enrichment Providers for sharing your skills, passions, and fun with the kids.

• Tia Mahr from the Girl Scouts had the kids learn about the strength of kindness using a chain craft project.
• Melissa Fisher Paoni, Ph.D. – Author of Dylan’s Hero. Read and led the kids in a superhero worksheet.
• Kristen Errett continued her program, Too Good for Drugs with the kids.
• Courtney Redmond from IDNR Conservation discussed water safety and let the kids check out her gear.
• Ebony Logan from Epilepsy Advocacy Network visited our McClernand site with Youth Seizure Recognition and First Aid Training
• Sarah Davis was busy leading an Illinois State Museum STEM project.
• Kimberly Dystra and friends with Therapy Dogs
• Autumn Gibson returned with a Club Compass kid favorite: Exotic Animals.

Field trips are always a hit with the Club Compass kids. This month our McClernand Club kids visited Papa John’s Pizza. They each were able to get into the kitchen and make their own individual-sized pizza! What do you think the most popular toppings were? Any pineapple surprises?

Social-Emotional Learning (SEL)

With the end of the school year approaching, the kids are near completing their “Leader in Me” program. Some of the topics covered this month included relationship building, kindness, integrity, and positive self-talk.

To explore the idea of positive self-talk, Club Compass kids created “strength chains.” Each child wrote one of their personal strengths on a strip of paper, which would later be used to build a paper chain. All the strips were collected into a pile, and one by one, the kids took turns reading a strength aloud. The group would then guess who the strength belonged to and celebrate with applause.

As the strips were linked together into a growing chain, the kids were able to see how each person’s unique strengths contribute to something bigger. It was a fun and powerful way to recognize, celebrate, and appreciate the strengths in themselves—and each other.

It is not too late to get involved with Club Compass! We have a few Enrichment Providers slots available! Sign up here: