Mankato Community Education

Spend four days exploring Earth’s elements with your friends while creating and crafting! Use a variety of materials including wax, yarn, paints, and glass to make one of a kind, eco-centric creations to express yourself. Take some and share some! Monday: Earth. Glass and Cement Mosaics and Yarn Wall Hangings. Tuesday: Water. Watercolor Leaf Printing and Tissue Dyed Canvas. Wednesday: Air. Washer Wind Chimes and Faux Stained Glass Sun Catcher. Thursday: Fire. Mason Jar Luminaries and Beeswax Taper Candles. Sign up for the entire camp or choose your favorite projects and sign up for a one day experience!

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 Friday, June 13, 2025. 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 20, 2025, 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 2025. To work ahead on new concepts, register for workbooks representing your grade level in the fall of 2025 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 13, 2025

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 Friday, June 13, 2025. 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 20, 2025, 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 2025. To work ahead on new concepts, register for workbooks representing your grade level in the fall of 2025 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 13, 2025

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 Friday, June 13, 2025. 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 20, 2025, 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 2025. To work ahead on new concepts, register for workbooks representing your grade level in the Fall of 2025 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 13, 2025

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! Session 1: Monster Pot. Build a crazy monster to guard your prized possessions! Session 2: Create a dish in the shape of your hand to decorate with Henna designs and bold colors! Session 3: Animal Bobble Heads. Choose an animal to bobble around on your desk! These courses are for youth entering grades 3-12.

Join Lizzie from Smell The Roses Memory Creation, LLC this summer for a hands-on photography course designed for anyone wanting to learn about taking beautiful, meaningful photographs. We’ll explore key concepts of composition, lighting, and digital editing, covering techniques such as the rule of thirds, natural framing, and how to find the perfect lighting indoors and outdoors. Whether you’re using a smartphone or a DSLR, you’ll learn how to enhance your images through thoughtful shooting and simple editing tools. This course is perfect for beginners eager to document memories, express creativity, and see the world through a new lens. Bring your camera, your curiosity, and get ready to create!

Dakota Meadows Middle School Beginning Band Get A Jump Start On Your New Instrument MAPS Staff 5 sessions (each daily lesson is 50 minutes each) In five daily sessions learn how to get started on your band instrument safely and correctly before school begins. Intended for students entering 6th grade or attending Band for the first time at DMMS. Emphasis will be on the beginning elements of playing your instrument and learning how to care for it properly. Students need to arrive at camp with their instrument and Sound Innovations: Book 1, for each instrument. Parents are strongly encouraged to reserve this week for summer lessons if you plan on enrolling your student in band in Fall 2025. Lesson week is only for students enrolling in Band at Dakota Meadows Middle School. Attend lesson week at the school you are attending this Fall.