Weekly Media Roundup - June 5, 2013

Afterschool students from The Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami’s Fashion Design Class for middle and high school students showed off their various fabric-dyeing techniques at the Dye-versity fashion show last week. Check out a slideshow of the designs on the Miami Herald website. 

The Virginia Department of Education has created a new website – Virginia is for Lovers … of Summer Learning – with tips and links to a collection of resources to help promote summer learning. Resources on the site were developed by groups such as the Library of Virginia, the Public Broadcasting System, the Smithsonian Institution, the Virginia General Assembly, the Virginia Tourism Corporation, the Virginia Cooperative Extension Service, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and more. 

 

First- through fifth-grade students participating in the 21st Century Summer Program in Jamestown are learning how things grow and understanding the importance of vegetables in the diet this summer. The foods produced from the Junior Master Gardener Program, offered by the Stutsman County Extension Office, “will go into the summer school lunch program with any produce harvested after the start of the regular school year going into the regular hot lunch program,” The Jamestown Sun reports.

 

Students from the Keystone to Discovery After School Program in Hamilton visited the Bitter Root Humane Association to read a story to the dogs waiting inside. “Dogs are a totally non-judgmental audience to read to," Keystone Program Director Ria Overholt told the Associated Press. “We've found that it does help [students] build their reading skills and they have fun doing it.”