Mankato Area Public Schools

If you love science experiments, this is your camp! Join the STEAM Team and your friends to get messy and create with projects and play!! This camp will be both indoors and outdoors. Monday: Underground Adventures Tuesday: Gross Side of the Body Wednesday: Whether the Weather Thursday: To the Skies Sign up for the whole camp or choose your favorite subject for a one day experience.

Spin and splatter, bead and bend! Use a variety of materials including wax, yarn, paints, and glass to make one of a kind creations to express yourself. Take some and share some! Sign up for the entire camp or choose your favorite projects and sign up for a one day experience! Monday: Prints + Patterns Tuesday: Beads + Baubles Wednesday: Swirls + Splatter Thursday: Reclaim + Recycle

Explore our natural world with science and art! Join your Pre-K friends for an exciting camp to discover facts about water, plants, the air around us, and all sorts of critters. Sign up for the entire camp or pick your favorite day and jump into the fun! Monday: Stream STEAM. How do changes on land affect the way that water moves? Splashes will happen! Tuesday: Flower Power. Pull, paint, and plunge all sorts of plants to see what they're made of. Wednesday: Whether the Weather. Learn how to identify clouds and what type of weather that they bring with them Bonus: create your own weather forecast video! Thursday: Creepy Crawly Critters. Snake skin, reptile eggs, and spider silk! Play with ways to better understand our not-so-furry friends.

GRASP – MANKATO ACADEMIC SUMMER PROGRAM (SELF PACED, WORK AT HOME, NO INTERNET, NO SCREENS) 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 Thursday, June 4, 2026. 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. Workbooks are anticipated to arrive in Mankato by Friday, June 19, 2026, but you should wait for a confirmation email that assures you that the books are ready for your pick up. 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 2026. To work ahead on new concepts, register for workbooks representing your grade level in the Fall of 2026 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: Thursday, June 4, 2026

GRASP – MANKATO ACADEMIC SUMMER PROGRAM (SELF PACED, WORK AT HOME, NO INTERNET, NO SCREENS) 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 Thursday, June 4, 2026. 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. Workbooks are anticipated to arrive in Mankato by Friday, June 19, 2026, but you should wait for a confirmation email that assures you that the books are ready for your pick up. 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 2026. To work ahead on new concepts, register for workbooks representing your grade level in the Fall of 2026 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: Thursday, June 4, 2026

GRASP – MANKATO ACADEMIC SUMMER PROGRAM (SELF PACED, WORK AT HOME, NO INTERNET, NO SCREENS) 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 Thursday, June 4, 2026. 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. Workbooks are anticipated to arrive in Mankato by Friday, June 19, 2026, but you should wait for a confirmation email that assures you that the books are ready for your pick up. 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 2026. To work ahead on new concepts, register for workbooks representing your grade level in the Fall of 2026 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: Thursday, June 4, 2026

Transform a lump of clay into beautiful, functional objects or unique gifts! These step by step art courses will teach you to create themed pieces of art that you can bring home. Each class meets twice: once to shape your creation, and once to add color. You'll be notified when your finished masterpieces emerge from the kiln, and are ready to take home! Please note the time differences for the two meeting sessions. Session 1: Wacky Birds Session 2: Bobble Heads Session 3: Lit Luminaries These courses are for youth entering grades 3-12.

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 common scenarios and topics specific to children preparing to stay home alone, or stay home with younger siblings. We ask that a parent or adult guardian attend class with the child.