In February last year I started meeting with a few other homeschool moms to organize a school group for our older students. It became the scholar school called South Valley Leadership Academy. I helped to gather a group of teens who would be our Youth Council and we started planning and preparing.
This is our first activity with the community, a hoedown youth dance at Datus Archery.
Fisher came!
After the hard work at one of our youth council meetings, we created an at home spa night.
Our first year youth council has four girls and no boys ;)
Some younger sister's included
Summer night-games activity
The younger kids usually found good friends and great things to do during our SVLA board meetings.
The youth council helped host a retreat for moms and scholars at the Harston Heartland Lodge during the second week of August.
We started our Tuesday classes and I helped to mentor a 4-H club as an elective with nearly 30 students! Gratefully I was able to recruit Grandpa's help with the woodworking project. He helped around 20 kids construct beautiful boxes with hammer, nails, stain, and hinges etc.
One of the other two groups we had going in 4-H was sewing.
2 benches constructed in a few hours! (with Jared's help this time)
Our friendly county extention agent, Vernon Parent, taught about portfolios.
field trip to woodcraft
I didn't take photos of students in our pottery unit, but this was an awesome field trip to Ben Behunin's studio.
The youth council coordinated a service project to the Road Home shelter in November. We brought lunches for the families and helped sort donations.
The new SVLA youth council took up their positions in November. (yea Michael!) They had a fun battle activity after the training meeting.
