Category: Paso Robles

Soaring Through Spring

This month at the Almond Acres Club, members have been preparing for a paper airplane competition. Members have been watching videos of how to create various paper airplanes, and have been running trials to find out which ones work best. At the end of the month members will be putting their planes to the test… Read more »

Club Members Give Tours of Their Club

The Almond Acres Boys and Girls Club held their Grand Opening and Ribbon Cutting Ceremony on March 16th. This ceremony hosted many different community members, and the Boys and Girls Club members were excited to show them around their campus. The members led the visitors on tours around the classrooms as well as the outdoor… Read more »

Youth Development Professional of the Month–Emma Payne

Emma is a great member of our Almond Acres team! She always has super fun and well thought out activities planned for her group. Emma is amazing at taking initiative and is always optimistic. Thank you for all that you do.

Smart Moves Kicks-Off At The Shandon Club!

SMART Moves: Emotional Wellness is a targeted program that supports Healthy Lifestyles. It builds the foundational social-emotional and health skills that will enable youth to make healthy decisions. SMART Moves is a suite of health promotion programs, focused on building the key attitudes and skills necessary for youth to make decisions about their health. This… Read more »

Craft time at the Creston Club

Members from the Creston Club really enjoy doing crafts at our Club. Every Monday & Wednesday the kindergarten Members get to do a different craft. Members get to practice their cutting, gluing and coloring skills which they have been getting better at it. We make sure to give our Members the help and support they… Read more »

Almond Acres Club Has Ribbon Cutting and Grand Opening

On March 16th, a beautiful day in Paso Robles, California, community members, donors, and children gathered to celebrate the opening of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Mid Central Coast Clubhouse at Almond Acres Charter School. The event was marked by a ribbon-cutting ceremony, signifying the official opening of the new clubhouse and a new… Read more »

Club Members Complete Triple Play Challenges

Triple play is a progressive curriculum that focuses on building movement skills and positive attitudes toward physical activity. The program consists of diverse games, cooperative activities and sports that develop a young person’s ability, confidence and motivation to be physically active. Our members looked forward to their triple play classes which happened twice a week…. Read more »

Success at Flamson’s First Stollmeyer Challenge Workshop!

The Teen Center at Flamson had a successful first workshop for the Stollmeyer Challenge! Our members got to create beautiful rainbow art work for the Mixed Media Rainbow Art session and had a fun time doing it. Our YDP Mel ran it very well and we look forward to our five remaining workshops we have… Read more »

First Grade Group Expresses Their Emotions

To kick off Spring Programs at the Almond Acres Club, the first grade group is participating in SMART Moves: Emotional Wellness. This program supports healthy lifestyles through the development of social-emotional skills. In this activity, the first grade group partnered up and chose an emotion to display. The class practiced recognizing emotions, and how to… Read more »

Learning About Rain & Clouds

Our Members were super excited to learn about rain especially since it’s been raining a lot here lately. We decided to do a simple experiment with food coloring, mason jars, shaving cream, and water to simulate how rain works and how clouds form. Our Members learned that water vapor rises into the air, but when… Read more »