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SUMMER 2021 Brighter Days

DirectorySanta Fe is emerging from the long pandemic tunnel into the bright summer sun! Tumbleweeds embraces these changes with ideas for children's books, science experiments, day trips, baking, outdoor activities, kids' entrepreneurship, summer programs, a fat calendar of family events--and new owners! Come meet Jen and Justin Schroer in Claudette's editor's note.

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• Meet our New Owners: Jen & Justin Schroer!
• Infants: Young Families Face Pandemic’s Ongoing Impact by Abby Bordner
• Preschool: Let’s Raise the Change-Makers by Zoey Barnes
• Elementary: Growing Together by Juliana Ciano
• Art: Tails and Tales, Biscochitos and Bolos by Melanie LaBorwit
• Traditions: Honeybees and Chokecherry Trees by Laura Gonzales
• Daytrips: Make a Break for the ABQ BioPark by Susan Roth
• Nature: On Behalf of Birds, Bees, Bats, Beetles and Butterflies by Jessica Schlarbaum and Chase Spearing 
• Teens: YouthWorks is On a Roll at Age 20 by Melynn Schuyler 
• Money: My Youth Entrepreneurship Journey by Connie Tooker Nuñez
• STEM: There’s No Place like Los Alamos for Science Fun by Lauren McDaniel
• Kids Write: Serendipitous Poetry by K-8 children in ArtWorks Art & Poetry Anthology
• Tumbleweeds’ Summer 2021 Calendar of Family Events and
• Directory of Summer Programs

Our Program Directory in this issue features Summer Camps, sponsored by the Del Norte LOV Foundation.

COVER IMAGE:  Ahhh, Abiquiu Lake! Zooey and Pippa Weed are 11 and 8 years old, heading into sixth and third grade. They are both competitive gymnasts at Zia Gymnastics, lovers of the outdoors and playing in the wild, devoted siblings, animal lovers, talented fine artists, and happy Santafeans! They're so excited for the summer season and ready to get out into the wonders of New Mexico to celebrate! Photography in this issue by Tira Howard. 

​Check out Tira's show, Once Upon A Girl, at the  Rock & Feather Gallery on Canyon Road across from the Tea House until the end of June.

We have new owners!

Come meet Justin and Jen in Claudette's editor's note.

Tumbleweeds, after 25 years in print, is now the online resource for Santa Fe Families--full of news, views and to-dos for families living in or visiting Santa Fe and northern New Mexico.

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Artwork in this issue is by K-8 students whose images were selected for "Made With Serendipity: ArtWorks Art & Poetry Anthology 2020-2021." You can also find more on the Summer Directory page.

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Summer 2021 ARTICLES

Cherish summer in Santa Fe with good books, lush gardens, buzzing bees, a trip to the zoo, a science project or two, and the restorative balm of children's creativity.

ART "MADE WITH SERENDIPITY"

Artwork in this issue is by K-8 students whose images were selected for "Made With Serendipity: ArtWorks Art & Poetry Anthology 2020-2021." ArtWorks is an arts education program of the Partners in Education Foundation for the Santa Fe Public Schools. This year, the ArtWorks program went virtual to accommodate online classrooms. Teaching artists Melissa Briggs-Bransford, Wendy Chapin, Gregory Gutin, Claire LaRose, Esmé Olivia, Oliver Prezant, Estefania Ramirez and Lucy Ranney and poet Joan Logghe adapted to provide arts education to SFPS students across the district throughout virtual learning. For a copy of the anthology, which includes more artwork as well as spectacular poems by over three dozen Santa Fe students, email ArtWorks' Program Director Erin De Rosa at ederosa@sfpartnersineducation.org.

See more art on the Directory page!

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Announcements, awards, program and service launches, COVID updates and other information to keep Santa Fe families in the know.