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  • Eagle Lake Elementary 3's Morning Preschool- CLASS IS FULL, REGISTRATIONS WILL BE PLACED ON WAITING LIST

    • Mankato Area Public Schools Preschool and Voluntary Pre-Kindergarten
    • MAPS Preschool 2024-2025
    Where It All Begins! Scroll down to see class options. Click on the class option or enroll to register. MAPS preschool is a fee based program that offers high quality programming and age appropriate learning for children ages 3-5 years old. Income based scholarship opportunities are available. For questions on tuition rates, please visit our MAP preschool website. There is a $25 non-refundable registration fee for accepted registrations. You will not be charged a registration fee if the class is full. MAPS preschool includes voluntary pre-kindergarten (VPK); a state funded/tuition free preschool option. To be eligible for VPK, you must reside within the Kennedy or Washington elementary attendance boundaries. Your child should be 4 years old before September 1st, but cannot be 5 and age eligible to attend kindergarten. Eligible and accepted VPK contracts do not have a registration fee. VPK funded seats are limited. Once full, you will be placed on a waiting list. Please reach out to our office if you need this information translated or need support with registration. Fadlan la xidhiidh xafiiskayaga haddii aad u baahan tahay in macluumaadkan la turjumo, ama aad u baahan tahay taageero luuqad kale oo diiwaan-gelin ah. Si usted necesita ayuda con la traducción de esta información en español o en otro idioma favor de llamar a nuestra oficina. ACES Early Learning is available at the Center for Learning location giving families the option for a half day or full day experience. Once registered for MAPS preschool, contact ACES for a additional information and separate registration. aces@isd77.org Mankato Area Public Schools Early Learning- 507-625-4620
    3's AM
    Tue-Thu, Sep 10 - May 29 2025
    8:00 - 11:00 AM
    Eagle Lake Elementary School
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  • Eagle Lake Elementary 4-5's Afternoon Preschool

    • Mankato Area Public Schools Preschool and Voluntary Pre-Kindergarten
    • MAPS Preschool 2024-2025
    Where It All Begins! Scroll down to see class options. Click on the class option or enroll to register. MAPS preschool is a fee based program that offers high quality programming and age appropriate learning for children ages 3-5 years old. Income based scholarship opportunities are available. For questions on tuition rates, please visit our MAP preschool website. There is a $25 non-refundable registration fee for accepted registrations. You will not be charged a registration fee if the class is full. MAPS preschool includes voluntary pre-kindergarten (VPK); a state funded/tuition free preschool option. To be eligible for VPK, you must reside within the Kennedy or Washington elementary attendance boundaries. Your child should be 4 years old before September 1st, but cannot be 5 and age eligible to attend kindergarten. Eligible and accepted VPK contracts do not have a registration fee. VPK funded seats are limited. Once full, you will be placed on a waiting list. Please reach out to our office if you need this information translated or need support with registration. Fadlan la xidhiidh xafiiskayaga haddii aad u baahan tahay in macluumaadkan la turjumo, ama aad u baahan tahay taageero luuqad kale oo diiwaan-gelin ah. Si usted necesita ayuda con la traducción de esta información en español o en otro idioma favor de llamar a nuestra oficina. ACES Early Learning is available at the Center for Learning location giving families the option for a half day or full day experience. Once registered for MAPS preschool, contact ACES for a additional information and separate registration. aces@isd77.org Mankato Area Public Schools Early Learning- 507-625-4620
    4-5's PM
    Mon-Thu, Sep 9 - May 29 2025
    12:00 - 3:00 PM
    Eagle Lake Elementary School
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  • Edible + Medicinal Plant Walk

    Plant walks are a great opportunity to become more connected with the plants all around you. These walks are interactive as we explore the plants to get to know them better through sight, touch, smell and taste. You will leave knowing visual identification as well as how to work with the plant and their benefits! This class will be hands-on (and in nature) with the plants themselves. No experience is necessary for this course, all knowledge levels are welcome! This walk will be held at Rasmussen Woods (555 Stoltzman Rd, Mankato, MN 56001). Rain day is set for July 23. We will notify you if course is moved due to weather. Classes are taught by Herbalist and Integrative Nutritionist, Kara Swenson of Thistle Patch Wellness.
    Tue, Jul 16
    6:00 - 7:30 PM
    Rasmussen Woods
    Min Age
    7 yr.
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  • Embroidery For Everyone (Adult)

    This class will teach the embroidery basics: choosing fabric and stretching it in a hoop, separating floss into fewer strands, threading a needle, transferring patterns to fabric, and learning a few stitches. Participants will be given a hoop, fabric, a needle, several colors of floss, and instruction sheets. At the end of the first class, you'll have the beginnings of a project that you can continue contributing to on your own. Then bring back your project for the second class, in order to learn several more complicated stitches!
    Tue, Jun 18 - Jun 25
    5:30 - 7:00 PM
    Lincoln Community Center
    Min Age
    18 yr.
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  • Embroidery For Everyone (Youth)

    This class will teach the embroidery basics: choosing fabric and stretching it in a hoop, separating floss into fewer strands, threading a needle, transferring patterns to fabric, and learning a few stitches. Participants will be given a hoop, fabric, a needle, several colors of floss, and instruction sheets. At the end of the first class, you'll have the beginnings of a project that you can continue contributing to on your own. Then bring back your project for the second class, in order to learn several more complicated stitches!
    Tue, Jun 18 - Jun 25
    3:00 - 4:30 PM
    Lincoln Community Center
    Ages
    10 yr. - 19 yr.
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  • Everybody Has A Story: Starting Your Memoir

    Many people have experiences that they'd like to share in writing with friends, family, or the public, but they don't know how to begin. In this course, we'll read short excerpts from classic memoirs and do writing exercises in order to help students isolate what stories they want to tell and how they want to tell them. We'll examine ways of organizing memories into a narrative, practice adding lively details, consider whether there are themes that should be highlighted, and noodle around with how to tell the whole truth when you don't know it. Students will end the course with writing that can be shared and with skills to continue writing and sharing. Whether you want to write about life on the old homestead, once-in-a-lifetime travel, military service, youthful hijinks, an admired relative, or a period of loss, this course can help you get started.
    Thu, Jul 25
    5:30 - 7:30 PM
    Lincoln Community Center
    Min Age
    17 yr.
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  • Franklin Elementary

    • ACES Elementary
    • Summer 2024
    If you are looking for ACES Early Learning - please choose the following link HERE
    Summer @ Franklin
    Mon-Fri, Jun 13 - Aug 16
    6:30 AM - 6:00 PM
    Franklin Elementary School
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  • Fundamentals of Diving

    Students will learn the basics of diving including approaches and different types of jumps/dives.
    Mon-Thu, Jul 29 - Aug 8
    11:15 AM - 12:00 PM
    East High School
    Min Age
    10 yr.
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  • Future Scarlets Basketball Camp

    The Mankato West girls basketball program is putting on an exciting, new, summer basketball camp for Future Lady Scarlets who are entering grades K-5. Athletes will learn basketball fundamentals such as dribbling, passing, shooting, footwork and play fun games. Whether you have played basketball before or are just giving it a try, this will be a great camp for you! Come give basketball a try and learn from current Scarlet coaches and players!
    Mon-Wed, Jul 8 - Jul 10
    10:00 - 11:15 AM
    Grades
    K - 2nd
    Mon-Wed, Jul 8 - Jul 10
    11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
    Grades
    3rd - 5th
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  • GRASP Math

    GRASP – MANKATO ACADEMIC SUMMER PROGRAM (SELF PACED, WORK AT HOME) It is time to UNPLUG! This workbook program is done at home and at your own pace. No computer or internet is needed to complete the lessons. Take your book with you on vacation, to the cabin, or work on it inside on a rainy day! GRASP is a correspondence program designed to reinforce math and reading skills learned during the school year just completed! This workbook program is designed for students who have completed any grade from K–8, to keep their skills current over the summer months. Students complete nine lessons in math, reading, or both over the summer. Each lesson takes about one hour to complete. The lessons are mailed in by the parent, scored by the GRASP company located in Grand Rapids Michigan, results recorded and earned awards sent to the children in September. Books will be available for students to pick up (locally) at Lincoln Community Center (110 Fulton Street) Books are ordered after registration closes on June 12. Once the books arrive in Mankato, families will be advised of pick up hours and special instructions for completing the lessons. Please make sure your correct email & mailing address is on file at Community Education, so correspondence can reach you in a timely fashion. Call the Mankato Community Education Office at (507) 387-5501 with questions. To review concepts just completed, register / order the workbook representing grade completed in spring of 2024. To work ahead on new concepts, register for workbooks representing your grade level in the fall of 2024 or beyond. Please consider carefully what grade level you want your child to practice. Once books are ordered, they become your property and are not returnable for a refund. GRASP Registration Deadline: Wednesday, June 12, 2024
    5252GRADE 1S
    5252GRADE 2S
    5252GRADE 3S
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  • GRASP Math & Reading

    GRASP – MANKATO ACADEMIC SUMMER PROGRAM (SELF PACED, WORK AT HOME) It is time to UNPLUG! This workbook program is done at home and at your own pace. No computer or internet is needed to complete the lessons. Take your book with you on vacation, to the cabin, or work on it inside on a rainy day! GRASP is a correspondence program designed to reinforce math and reading skills learned during the school year just completed! This workbook program is designed for students who have completed any grade from K–8, to keep their skills current over the summer months. Students complete nine lessons in math, reading, or both over the summer. Each lesson takes about one hour to complete. The lessons are mailed in by the parent, scored by the GRASP company located in Grand Rapids Michigan, results recorded and earned awards sent to the children in September. Books will be available for students to pick up (locally) at Lincoln Community Center (110 Fulton Street) Books are ordered after registration closes on June 12. Once the books arrive in Mankato, families will be advised of pick up hours and special instructions for completing the lessons. Please make sure your correct email & mailing address is on file at Community Education, so correspondence can reach you in a timely fashion. Call the Mankato Community Education Office at (507) 387-5501 with questions. To review concepts just completed, register / order the workbook representing grade completed in spring of 2024. To work ahead on new concepts, register for workbooks representing your grade level in the fall of 2024 or beyond. Please consider carefully what grade level you want your child to practice. Once books are ordered, they become your property and are not returnable for a refund. GRASP Registration Deadline: Wednesday, June 12, 2024
    5254-GRADE 1S
    5254-GRADE 2S
    5254-GRADE 3S
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  • GRASP Reading

    GRASP – MANKATO ACADEMIC SUMMER PROGRAM (SELF PACED, WORK AT HOME) It is time to UNPLUG! This workbook program is done at home and at your own pace. No computer or internet is needed to complete the lessons. Take your book with you on vacation, to the cabin, or work on it inside on a rainy day! GRASP is a correspondence program designed to reinforce math and reading skills learned during the school year just completed! This workbook program is designed for students who have completed any grade from K–8, to keep their skills current over the summer months. Students complete nine lessons in math, reading, or both over the summer. Each lesson takes about one hour to complete. The lessons are mailed in by the parent, scored by the GRASP company located in Grand Rapids Michigan, results recorded and earned awards sent to the children in September. Books will be available for students to pick up (locally) at Lincoln Community Center (110 Fulton Street) Books are ordered after registration closes on June 12. Once the books arrive in Mankato, families will be advised of pick up hours and special instructions for completing the lessons. Please make sure your correct email & mailing address is on file at Community Education, so correspondence can reach you in a timely fashion. Call the Mankato Community Education Office at (507) 387-5501 with questions. To review concepts just completed, register / order the workbook representing grade completed in spring of 2024. To work ahead on new concepts, register for workbooks representing your grade level in the fall of 2024 or beyond. Please consider carefully what grade level you want your child to practice. Once books are ordered, they become your property and are not returnable for a refund. GRASP Registration Deadline: Wednesday, June 12, 2024
    5253-GRADE 1S
    5253-GRADE 2S
    5253-GRADE 3S
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  • Girls Speed and Strength Training

    This program is designed specifically for girls to enhance the overall athleticism of those who participate. Focus will be placed on developing maximum speed and functional strength through sprint training, plyometric training, and strength training. Participants will be able to track their own progress throughout the program.
    Mon-Thu, Jun 10 - Aug 8
    10:00 - 11:30 AM
    East High School
    Grades
    7th - 12th
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  • Hand Building Ceramics

    Make a variety of objects from a lump of clay into something that you can utilize or give as a gift! Each class meets twice, once to shape the clay, once to glaze. You will be notified when your finished piece comes out of the kiln!
    Tue, May 21 - May 28
    6:30 - 8:30 PM
    Lincoln Community Center
    Min Age
    18 yr.
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  • Home Alone Safety (Parent & Child Class)

    HOME ALONE SAFETY Melanie Schmidt (Instructor) Grades 2-6 & parent (or adult guardian) 1 Session Staying home alone for the first time is an opportunity eagerly anticipated by most kids; but with opportunity comes responsibility. This course covers a variety of common scenarios and topics specific to youth preparing to stay home alone or stay home with younger siblings. Topics include, but are not limited to: sibling conflict, stranger danger, healthy choices, problem solving, and identifying emergencies. Each child is encouraged to attend with 1 adult.
    Thu, Aug 15
    6:00 - 7:30 PM
    Lincoln Community Center
    Grades
    2nd - 6th
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  • Home Alone Safety (Parent + Child class) - Summer Edition

    Summer is coming and it may be time for your child to show increased independence by staying home alone. The new season brings both opportunity and challenge for families navigating sudden severe weather, neighborhood safety, screen time, and keeping your home safe and secure. Join Melanie Schmidt for a special edition of Home Alone Safety where we focus on summer fun and how kids can be safe while experiencing the outdoors, neighborhood friends, and even vacation adventures at the lake or cabin. Parents or guardians should attend class with their child for no additional cost.
    Mon, May 6
    6:00 - 7:30 PM
    Lincoln Community Center
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    Horse Camp at Pinewood Stables

    Riding instruction, horse care lessons and fun horse-related crafts and activities. Parents must sign Pinewood Stables waiver at check in
    Mon-Thu, Aug 19 - Aug 22
    8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
    Pinewood Stables
    Grades
    2nd - 8th
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  • How to Draw Anime (Basics)

    A beginners course for those interested in learning how to draw characters and animals/monsters in the style of Japanese cartoons otherwise known as anime. The course objective would be to teach basic proportions and styles that go into creating these characters so that a person may be able to replicate similar styles seen in shows like One Piece, Pokemon, Dragonball, etc... By the end of the course, participants should have enough of an understanding to be able to create their own original character in a generalized anime style!
    Thu, Aug 8 - Aug 15
    6:00 - 7:30 PM
    Lincoln Community Center
    Min Age
    10 yr.
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  • Intermediate Archery

    Grades 4-8 A fun way for girls and boys to get involved in something new! Our program utilizes that NASP curriculum and equipment and will teach the basics of using a compound bow. Classes are taught by a certified NASP instructor, an provide a safe and fun introduction to the sport of archery. Commands, signals, techniques and shooting challenges are all part of the program. Learn about equipment and participate in a low-pressure and supportive environment! All equipment is provided. Must have completed Beginning Archery Class.
    Tue, Mar 5 - Apr 16
    5:40 - 6:40 PM
    Lincoln Community Center
    Grades
    4th - 6th
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  • Intro To Guitar Lessons (Adult)

    This course is three sessions of group guitar lessons. It will cover lessons in chords, tablature, and general maintenance of your guitar, including some method + theory. It is intended for beginners with no prior music experience required. You must provide your own electric or acoustic guitar, no amplifiers needed or allowed in class. There are multiple instrument rental organizations in the Mankato area, if you don't own a guitar or don't have someone to borrow from. This course will work to help holistically initiate beginners who want to take on the hobby of learning to play the guitar. The course will also cover fun varieties of topics like style differences between genres, the differences between types of guitars, tuning types, the functions of different styles of guitar throughout the ages. After the basics have been covered,students will work both as a whole group and in assigned pairs to break down and explore the fun aspects of working together to make rhythms, "Jam Etiquette" or good ways to respectfully play with other musicians, and trading off roles when it comes to soloing, jamming, and understanding ones responsibilities in the balance of band-work.
    Thu, Jul 11 - Jul 25
    6:00 - 7:00 PM
    Lincoln Community Center
    Min Age
    18 yr.
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  • Intro To Guitar Lessons (Youth)

    This course is three sessions of group guitar lessons. It will cover lessons in chords, tablature, and general maintenance of your guitar, including some method + theory. It is intended for beginners with no prior music experience required. You must provide your own electric or acoustic guitar, no amplifiers needed or allowed in class. There are multiple instrument rental organizations in the Mankato area, if you don't own a guitar or don't have someone to borrow from. This course will work to help holistically initiate beginners who want to take on the hobby of learning to play the guitar. The course will also cover fun varieties of topics like style differences between genres, the differences between types of guitars, tuning types, the functions of different styles of guitar throughout the ages. After the basics have been covered,students will work both as a whole group and in assigned pairs to break down and explore the fun aspects of working together to make rhythms, "Jam Etiquette" or good ways to respectfully play with other musicians, and trading off roles when it comes to soloing, jamming, and understanding ones responsibilities in the balance of band-work.
    Tue, Jul 9 - Jul 23
    5:00 - 6:00 PM
    Lincoln Community Center
    Ages
    10 yr. - 17 yr.
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