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for themselves and families at home. At the end of class, students received a cookbook to take home with them.

Drumming:Instructors: Wendi Sirat and Michael Phillips. Drumming was a great team building workshop, which, encouraged self-expression. This workshop allowed a creative and productive way to release stress and aggression.

They also got to make rattles from recycled vitamin bottles and aquarium rocks and they made drums from five gallon buckets. The rattles and drums are decorated with collages from magazines collected from the Flatwood Recycling Center.

Mask Making:Instructor Margaret Schadler demonstrated the use of clay, papier mache, paint and lots of individual craft materials, the children created their own masks. One of the interns, Billy Rechin, painted a big slug that was made out of paper mache by Margaret Schadler. Rechin said, “he was reminded of how much talent you can find in a young child, and was looking forward to next year.”

Drama: Instructor: Jean Elizabeth. Children wrote, directed and perform d in their own plays and musicals.

Tile Makipg:Instructor: Monica Bracken. Children were taught to express themselves through the use of clay and paint, along with intern Rocio Loya, who said, “she liked watching the children work .with tile making and enjoyed making things herself.” This workshop was also responsible for producing products which Headwaters will auction at the Taste of Rappahannock annual fundraising event in the fall.

Basket Weaving: Instructor: Harriette Rosenblatt. The children learned to design and hand weave their own baskets.

Working with Therapy Dogs:Instructor: Sally Petty. Children learned how to train, handle and use therapy dogs in our community. Activities included: Safety around dogs, grooming and bathing dogs, clicker and agility training and learning just “what is a therapy dog?” Children also learned about the “Books and Barks” reading education assistance dogs program (R.E.A.D.) and pet care with vet tech Vicki Wilkinson from Rose Hill Vets. Rappahannock’s animal wardens also paid them a visit.

Incredibly talented children

There are a lot of incredibly talented children in the community and given the chance to express themselves, they do. Headwater’s summer workshops give them that opportunity to shine.

All of this could not have happened without the countless hours of work provided by the Summer Workshops’ instructors , volunteers, interns and many members of the community who all helped to make the Summer Workshops such a huge success. , As the current committee chair for Summer Workshops, Lucille Niessen said, “I can’t express how amazing all the children are, and what talent they are have! Our instructors put together interesting, fun and educational programs for their workshop. All of us who participated feel the programs are very worthwhile.”

The Headwaters’ mission is to foster educational excellence by cultivating the cooperative spirit and resources of the whole community to benefit all students. They have lived up to this mission.

Headwaters summer workshops are open to all children of Rappahannock County from grades two to eight whether from public or private schools or home-schooled.

Headwaters’ summer workshops are made possible by the generous financial support of our community: businesses and private donors and Headwaters.

For more information, or if you’d like to make a donation to keep these summer workshops going for years to come contact: Headwaters at P. O. Box 408, Washington VA 22747 or call (540) 675-1819.

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