By: Savitha Kowligy
Parent Volunteer
Daniel Boone Community School
Daniel Boone Community School collaboratively works with the parents, students and the Organization of the Northeast to provide a fulfilling educational experience for our students and parents. Our school welcomes parents to volunteer and participate in classroom activities that allow them to connect with their children to enhance the learning experience. Also, our students participate in fun and educational extracurricular activities that go beyond the classroom to teach them new and exciting skills.
Parent and community member involvement is an important feature of Boone Community School. The Parent Mentor Program assigns parents to different classrooms to assist the teachers and children. In ESL classes, the parent mentors speak Spanish, Urdu, Assyrian and Arabic, which help students feel comfortable. Among the classes for our adults, Boone Community School offers ESL as well as an exclusive class for parents of Burmese origin. Community members also enjoy Yoga for physical fitness and stress relief and this year we plan to introduce Basics to Computers classes.
Our school also offers a variety of programs after school for our students. For example, we have activities for students in kindergarten such as Stretch ‘N’ Grow, and Clap, Sing, and Read where kids learn while doing physical activities. For 1st through 8th grade students we offer a number of programs such as Homework Club and Hip Hop Yoga, a class where students spend time learning mind-body exercises to center and relax them and hip hop choreography to prepare them for an end of the year ensemble performance. In addition to the above programs we also offer Broadway Kids, Gymnastics and Volleyball for Girls. For our diverse community we have a language program involves Arabic, Assyrian, and Arabic ESL.
By providing these classes for students, parents, and adults we believe the entire community can grow and achieve together. If you have any questions about the programs at Daniel Boone Community School please e-mail Sandra@onechicago.org.
