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Event Recap: Volunteering at Camp WIN | October 24, 2017

By Hillary Doyle (ECC Committee Chair)

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The Early Career Committee recently put on a literacy event for Camp WIN, a summer camp for homeless kids at WIN shelters. Our group of 15 volunteers ran four different book-themed stations for the kids to try: a children’s-book-themed version of the “Heads Up” game, a coloring and bookmark-making station inspired by Princess Truly by Kelly Greenawalt and Amariah Rauscher, a comic-creating station inspired by Dav Pilkey’s Dog Man, and a puppet-making station inspired by Monsters Unleashed by John Kloepfer and Mark Oliver. We then finished out the afternoon with a group read-aloud of Billy Bloo is Stuck in Goo by Jennifer Hamburg and Ross Burach. At the end of the event, each WIN kid got to take with them a Children’s Book Week tote bag full of goodies and books for their very own. We had a ton of fun talking books with the kids at WIN, and were so impressed by their creativity, humor, and love for reading!

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