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Happy Holidays
to our FLOW Mentoring Community
We thank you for all the ways you have helped to make the holidays special for the students of FLOW.
Best wishes
for a happy, healthy NEW YEAR.
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FLOW STUDENTS IN SERVICE:
Many of our school FLOW programs have been energetically engaged in service activities in the past weeks and months. Here are some of them:
- The Spring Ridge Middle School FLOW group made blankets to offer as Christmas gifts to patients in the PICU at Johns Hopkins.
- Dynard Elementary FLOW sold Candy Grams to raise money for Hurricane Sandy victims in New York and New Jersey.
- George Washington Carver Elementary FLOW participants were involved in a gardening project in which they grew vegetables and greens to be donated to a local food pantry (more below).
- Hollywood Elementary FLOW took a trip to a Lexington Park food pantry to help prepare bags of food for needy families at Thanksgiving.
- Three schools - Green Holly Elementary, Chesapeake Public Charter School, and Mechanicsville Elementary - teamed up for a penny drive, with money sent to The American Red Cross for Hurricane Sandy victims.
Lynne Baker, our site leader who organized the penny drive, reports that her Green Holly FLOW students raised $650.00!! Congratulations!!!!
See below for pictures of her students at the start of the penny drive and at its successful end!
  You will see pictures of other FLOW groups
involved in their service activities below!!
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In the News:
FLOW MENTORING at George Washington Carver Elementary
Click on the link below to read a story in SoMdNews.com of a gardening project at George Washington Carver Elementary featuring the FLOW mentoring students.
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 FLOW Mentoring in Action
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Lexington Park Elementary
Mentors and Mentees got in the spirit with a holiday party.
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White Marsh Elementary
The FLOW group recently took a field trip to
the Charlotte Hall Library.
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Spring Ridge Middle School
The FLOW group at Spring Ridge has been making blankets to send to the PICU at John Hopkins for Christmas.
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Greenview Knolls Elementary
FLOW sessions have been varied and active these past weeks at GKES. In one, mentees attempted to bridge the generational divide by teaching their mentors some tips on the use of a Promethean (Smart) board. At another, mentors assisted mentees in making special invitations for their families to attend a holiday celebration on December 10. They were also busy celebrating the season by making festive wooden ornaments.
The final pictures are scenes from the holiday party: happy cookie-decorating and cookie-eating, with several special guest-parents getting to partake!
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Every year since the beginning of the FLOW program, Hollywood Elementary mentors and mentees have made a visit to the Food Pantry at the Church of the Ascension in Lexington Park where they have helped Mr. Jess Davis sort food and decorate bags. The bags are given out to needy families at Thanksgiving.
The group worked hard this year, and when the work was done, they all went out to dinner together at McDonalds.
In an earlier session, mentees and mentors got messy
with some pumpkin carving!
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Dynard Elementary
The FLOW group at DES recently spent sessions making magnetic clothespin turkeys and posters promoting Candy Gram Sales -- all money was sent to the American Red Cross to help families in New York and New Jersey affected by Hurricane Sandy.
FLOW Mentees participated in the Dynard News Morning Announcements reminding the community to buy Candy Grams to help the families in need.
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Esperanza Middle School
At EMS, FLOW mentoring groups recently spent a session painting wooden picture frames.
  
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Looking Ahead, Planning Ahead:
January is National Mentoring Month
2013 Theme is "Mentoring Works!"
THANK YOUR MENTOR DAY January 17, 2013
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Mentoring in the News
MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership Named to New Index of 100 High-Impact Nonprofits
The Social Impact Exchange has named MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership to the first-ever index of 100 top-performing, evidence-based nonprofit organizations in the United States.
click here to read more
Why Every Preteen Needs a Mentor
Read a personal article by the Program Director for the Friends for Youth Mentoring Institute about the importance of mentoring, especially for preteens.
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BECOME A MENTOR
We need you.
They need you.
How can I apply?
To apply to become a Mentor with FLOW Mentoring, we require that you complete a FLOW Mentoring Mentor Application and an SMCPS Volunteer Application (this is required of all volunteers in our school system).
Please click on the links below to view printable versions of each application. When you have completed both applications, please mail, fax, or email the applications to:
Sarah R. Tyson, FLOW Mentoring IRT FLOW Office Location: Dr. James A. Forrest Career and Technology Center 24005 Point Lookout Road Leonardtown, MD 20650 Phone: 301-475-0242 ext. 148 Fax: 301-475-0245 srtyson@smcps.org
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FLOW Mentoring
St. Mary's County Public Schools
Department of College and Career Readiness
24005 Point Lookout Road
Leonardtown, MD 20650
Phone: 301-475-0242 x.148
Fax: 301-475-0245
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