Harvesting Swiss Chard!

Franklin Library Garden

Today we went outside to water the garden, in the hot sun. We learned a lot about what are vegetables and what are not. People helped each other water the garden. We really worked together good as a group. People they say nice things about the garden. the end.

Community Trip to Mill City Museum

J.P. was one of the students from the library and he went to the Mill City Museum. We took this picture in the train and it was fun.

When we were in the elevator some people were scared because it was too tall. Nur and Vianna thought being up that high didn't feel good. The rest of us were busy looking out the window and seeing the view!

When we were up on the 7th floor the Mississippi River looked beautiful! We learned that the waterfall is smooth and it makes wheels turn and push the flour up to the 7th floor.

The Mill City Museum is fun and you will learn something about Mr. Washburn (think of Washburn high school! It was named after Mr. Washburn!) so you should visit the museum too.

First Community Trip of the Summer!

(Brianna looking innocent as always...)

(Bri and Vianna hanging out by the bikes)













(Lily, Killian and Khalid on a bike)
(Creepy horror movie guy standing in front of waterfall)


The Franklin Teen Center went to the minnehaha falls today & explored & rode bikes a little. I thought it was pretty fun(more fun than I thought it would be). Khalid said "I'm hungry, that's all". Obviously he worked up quite an appetite. Killian said "It was pretty fun". & I said "WOOOOOOOOOOOH! that was fun!"

Different Talents bring culture to the Teen Center

In the enclosed video, was the winning act, Michael Reed reading an original peom penned by him. The talent show had many other acts , which wow many individuals. The talents had many culture compiled together. The show brought many talents such as singing, acting, magic tricks, as well as public speaking skills. This event open young individuals to many cultures: American, Native American, and Somalian. Here is the list of performers who contributed to talent show.

1. Hassan- secret handshake
2.Fadumo- singing Happy Birthday song
3.Angela- texting and calling at the same time.
4.Michael Reed- reading an original peom.
5. J.P. -Dance.
6. Mo- mo - Improv
7.Somalian Student Association (Abdikadir Hassan, Abdiasis Diviye, Adan Ahmen, Abdiwali Salad)- Traditional Somalian Dance.


I would like to say thank you to all those young individuals who participated in making this talent show.

Tomaine and Leon help with garden.

Improv Performance

Here are the members of the Teen Center's first improv acting troupe: The Unknowns











This is 2 young teens named Bri and Jarvay they are improving a short scene Of a Artist and A person who wants a picture painted of her. this was just one of many scenes performed last Thursday May 20th in the teen center. we had an audience of 20 or 25 people watching us.

The best scene in the show, in Bri's opinion, was "The Robbery." In this scene there were TWO robbers in the same house, then they ran into each other, then when the home owner came back they had to hide. the scene got a lot of laughs from the audience.