Please consider giving to a wonderful educational non-profit organization! Guided by Kids students are speaking, starting to research, and considering a community project to complete this school year. At our next class this Thursday, we will have high school speech competitors model original oratory and extemporaneous speaking so we can begin to prepare for our own speeches to take to middle school competitions in April and May. In upcoming classes, we will also learn some ba

After learning about events they will be able to compete in at local middle school competitions in the spring of 2018 (original oratory, extemporaneous speaking, declamation, and impromptu speaking), the students decided to give impromptu speaking a try at last night's class. No photos this time, but we were very impressed by the creativity, enthusiasm, and confidence shown by everyone who spoke on their randomly drawn topics. Each Guided by Kids student also demonstrated fi

Our November 2nd class featured four more excellent speeches about the role models in Guided by Kids students' lives. We also made real progress in narrowing down ideas for a community project to work on this year. Next class this Thursday, November 9th!