Owatonna Community Education

A-B-C Alphabet Soup School will be starting soon and this whole week will remind us about letters and sounds and how much fun we can have learning to read. There will be creative play inside and out designed to explore how letters and sounds can be mastered through hands-on, mind stimulating activities. We'll learn how yummy alphabet snacks can be!

Twain's Tales includes five short stories by the master American storyteller- "The celebrated jumping Frog of Calaveras County, " "Science vs. Luck," "The Joke That Made Ed's Fortune," "The Belated Russian Passport" and "Is He Living or Is He Dead?" -as well as the fence-painting chapter from the Adventures of Tom Sawyer. The play takes place on the front porch of a general store in what could be Hannibal, Missouri in the late 1800s. The five locals- the storekeeper and his wife, a printer, a reporter, and a riverboat pilot-spend the morning entertaining each other by seeing who can spin the tallest tale. In his own lifetime, Samuel Clemens held all four of these occupations, and his ability as a storyteller may very well have been born while listening to such individuals spinning their yarns at the general store. Auditions are May 28 3:15-5 pm Rehearsals are June 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 from 8:30 am-12 pm Performances on June 13 at 1 pm and 6:30 pm Tickets are sold at the door only.

Dinosaurs Take a trip back in time. Become a paleontologist and go on a Dinosaur dig! This camp is about all things dinosaurs with tons of hands-on and creative activities involving dinosaurs and fossils. This week promises to be a prehistoric adventure!