Skillbuilder Workshop

Skillbuilder workshops – learning through doing and reviewing

Skillbuilder Workshops, brain child of education/literacy advocate Maggie Rollings, is in its second summer at Copperopolis Branch Library. The workshop follows different ‘menus’ and approaches to learning, covering seemingly each possible learning avenue for a child. 

At the 7-19-12 Skillbuilder workshop the children were read a book with a moral based on the negative consequences of cheating. To reinforce the moral the children were then split into groups of their choice to create and perform a puppet show. The groups consisted of: actors, stage/set designers, puppet makers, and marquis creators. Each child chose their group and scampered off to create with a flourish. 

Skill Builder Workshop at the Copper Library

Summer Skill Builder Workshop

Summer Skill Builder Workshop

Skill Builder Workshop - Lets the Creative Juices Flow

When Maggie Rollings, long time education advocate and mother of two, saw the long summer months of lost learning time peering at her over the horizon, she began to plan. Her plan? To create a learning environment that is fun and "strengthens the mind."

Spending the past few years volunteering in multpile classrooms with varying age groups, along with conducting the Read Naturally program at Copperopolis Elementary, has allowed Maggie to "learn where kids need to connect the dots...and to use their talents to connect those dots." With this knowledge she created the 'Skill Builder Workshop' held at the Copper Branch Library every Tuesday this summer from
1-3 pm. This workshop is free and fun.