Keeping students active during the summer vacation

Cool Kids Club’s (CKC) partnership with the Cheyenne County Extension Office helps to keep students active during the summer.

Each day, Haley Zabel, a University of Lincoln student and intern for the Extension office, puts together a curriculum based program geared to keep youth active.

A scavenger hunt in the park Monday, helped CKC kindergartners learn about their five senses.

“Learning about touch, “ said Zabel, “we asked kids to find things that were, hard, soft, smooth, rough, sticky, squishy and small.”

Inside the brown paper sack students found items, from bark to dandelions, the items...