Join us! Please register to receive a Zoom link to a virtual forum on Tuesday, May 11, 7:00pm, to meet Minneapolis Park Board candidates seeking DFL-endorsement within Senate District 61 borders, including:
District 6: Cathy Abene, Risa Hustad, Mary McKelvey, Barb Schlaefer
At-large: Meg Forney (incumbent), Londel French (incumbent), Tom Olsen, Alicia Smith
Fun Soccer Games Program for Young Children – Ages 4-8
Located at MLK Park, in the field near Nicollet Ave. & 42nd Street
Wednesdays: starting June 23 and continuing through August 18, 6:15-7:30 PM
$20 a season for Minneapolis residents
Contact or call 612-370-4908 for assistance.
The Little Kickers Program uses “teaching-games” led by 2-3 trained, volunteer parent-coaches to small groups of kids divided by age: 4-year-olds, 5-6 year-olds, and 7-8 year-olds. The games are about teaching skills and behaviors core to soccer, but the games are generally not soccer games. We also don’t do “drills”, we don’t form organized teams for the summer, and parents don’t commit to being team soccer coaches for the entire summer. Parent coaches don’t need to be athletes, nor need to have experience playing organized soccer. The program is designed around soccer basics and soccer balls, and lots of action. The highest priority of the program, however, is that the kids have fun and want to come back the next week, enthusiastically, to play the games with soccer balls again.
Besides registering your children, we are also seeking additional “official” parent coaches. We will provide training in June at a two-hour workshop from a college-level soccer coach who actually uses these games in their professional roles.
Interested? Send an email to Michael Vanderford, at .
This summer, on Wednesday evenings from 6:15 to 7:30 PM, on the grass of ML King field #1, the Minneapolis Park Board and the Kingfield Neighborhood Association will again host a program for 4- through 8-year old boys and girls, of all nationalities and backgrounds. The program is designed around soccer basics and soccer balls, and lots of action. But the highest priority of the program is that the kids have fun; have fun playing games with soccer balls, and want to come back the next week, enthusiastically, to play the games with soccer balls again.
If you can imagine; dads, moms, aunts, uncles, and grandparents, (you!); joining in to play the games with your 6-year-old son, your 4-year-old daughter, and the the other 15-20 kids in their age-group, on the field. The adults are regularly invited to join in games kicking the soccer balls, and pretending with the kids for: “Ouch!”, “Allegators”, “Go Get It”, “Islands”, “Bandits”, and “Buffalo Hunter”. There is the occasional soccer scrimmage for the older groups at the end of session, but mostly it’s about teaching soccer through these other, “silly”, games.
The Little Kickers Program uses these little-kid teaching-games, led by 2 or 3 parent-coaches trained in a bunch of the games, to groups of a dozen to 20, or so, 4-year-olds, 5-6 year-olds, and 7-8 year-olds. The games are about teaching skills and behaviors core to soccer, but the games are generally not soccer games, and we don’t do “drills”, we don’t form organized teams for the summer, and parents don’t commit to being team soccer coaches for the summer. Parent coaches don’t need to be athletes, nor need to have experience playing organized soccer.
If you want to be one of the “Official” parent coaches, we will provide training in June at a two-hour games-learning session from a one of several college-level soccer coaches who actually use these games in their professional roles, working with their upper level youth programs and their college varsity soccer teams. But they are fun, kid games. Not serious soccer drills.
Sign up here to indicate your interest in serving on a community team forming this Spring whose task will be to bring information on the various Candidates and Races to Our Community. Whether through debates, interviews, or written information, the job of this Team will be to help educate other neighbors about the people, the process, the charter amendments, as well as the dates and details of this year’s election.
Archery in the Parks Demo, Monday April 5, 3:30-4:30 PM #119545
Archery in the Parks Distance Challenge, Thursday April 8, 6:16-8:00 PM #119546
All Boys Volleyball Drills, Tuesday & Thursday, April 6 & 8, 4-5:30 PM #118677
Spring Break Open Gym, Monday – Friday, April 5-9, 12:00-3:00 PM #118549
All Girls Hoop Drill, Monday April 5, 6:00-7:15, #118675
…and more programming options. Check out www.minneapolisparks.org/register
