The Children’s Wellness Learning Collaborative

06/02/2026

Upcoming Audubon Society of Rhode Island events! 🌿

06/02/2026

🌻 Support Our Student-Led Micro Business at the Goddard Park Farmers Market this Friday from 8:30 AM to 12:30 PM🌻

We are excited to share that our student entrepreneurs from Kindness in Bloom, a micro business created through The Children’s Wellness Learning Collaborative, will be participating in the Goddard Park Farmers Market this Friday!

Our students have worked hard to design, create, problem-solve, market their products, and learn what it takes to run a business from start to finish. Through this hands-on experience, they are building confidence, creativity, teamwork, financial literacy, and real-world entrepreneurial skills.

If you’re at the market, please stop by to say hello, encourage our young business owners, and see the amazing products they have created. Your support means so much and helps inspire the next generation of innovators and community leaders. We are incredibly proud of their hard work, and dedication! ☀️👏

06/01/2026

Join us June 20th for our Youth Business Fair! ☀️Come and support our kidpreneurs!

05/28/2026

Our learning community’s Star Wars Cantina Café project was truly out of this world! ✨🚀

Our team of budding restaurateurs brainstormed the cafe theme, negotiated the name and menu items, taste tested and voted for desserts, designed the welcome
signs and floral centerpieces, set up the space, hosted, and served the food they prepared for their families. They poured so much imagination, effort, and enthusiasm into every detail of this project. Watching them collaborate, create, and take ownership of their vision was incredible. 👏

This project was about so much more than a themed café — it was hands-on learning, creativity, communication, leadership, and confidence-building all woven together in such a meaningful and memorable way. The pride they felt seeing everything come together was well deserved. 🎉

We are so proud of the investment and creativity each child brought to this galactic experience. May the Force be with these amazing young creators always. 🌟

Thank you to our amazing educators for organizing this wonderful experience, and for the ongoing support of all our collaborative families! 💝 ‘It Takes a Village’ ☀️

05/24/2026

05/21/2026

Our learning community has been hard at work planning something exciting….🌟 The Star Wars Cantina, Café Project.

We warmly invite our families to join us Wednesday May 27th for an Intergalactic Luncheon at 1 PM.

From collaborative brainstorming of designs for the theme, cafe name, menu items and 💵 prices, to creating personalized menu 📔covers and cafe 🎈decor, students are combining their imagination with real-world 🧾learning in meaningful ways. This project has encouraged teamwork, communication, ✏️creativity, and entrepreneurial thinking while bringing a little galactic fun into our environment. 💫

We love watching our community members take ownership of their ideas, work together as a team, and transform inspiration into something truly memorable. The force is definitely strong with this group. ✨🚀🌟

05/17/2026

“May the 4th Be With You Celebration”🌟✨

At the Children’s Wellness Learning Collaborative, we know that some of the greatest superpowers are kindness, empathy, resilience, teamwork, and courage.

Our learners are exploring important social emotional lessons inspired by the idea that true strength comes from how we treat others, work through challenges, and use our voices for good. 💫

From practicing positive communication and problem-solving to learning how to be upstanders and supportive friends, our students are discovering that every child has the power to make a difference.

Because just like in every great adventure…
the force of compassion, connection, and community is always stronger together. 🌎💛

May the 4th be with you! ⭐

05/16/2026

What an inspiring day for our Kindness in Bloom Micro Business team at the University of Rhode Island Maker Space! 🌿✨We worked on developing banners with our micro business logo printed on it. The Kindness in Bloom name was chosen by our community and our new logo which combines our program logo with the art work from one of our students. 👏🙌🏻

Our learners had the incredible opportunity to explore creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship in such a hands-on and inspiring environment. Experiences like these help bring our project-based learning to life while encouraging confidence, collaboration, and big ideas.

A heartfelt thank you to our educators, and to Keith Ranaldi and Cyrus at The URI Innovation Lab for your generous assistance, encouragement, and support throughout our visit. Your time, guidance, and enthusiasm made the experience truly meaningful for our students.

We are so grateful for community partnerships that nurture creativity, kindness, and innovation in our young entrepreneurs. 🪴💡

We will have a booth with our community designed and crafted merch👏 at The URI Farmer’s Market on May 30th from 830-1230. Come and see us! ☀️

05/15/2026

We are so excited for Horseshoe Crab Season! The aquarium won’t be open for another few weeks, we are still preparing our exhibits- but our first 2 Horseshoe Crab Tagging nights begin this Sunday, May 17th at East Beach and Monday, May 18th at Goddard Park! It looks like we will have gorgeous weather for these events and we always find so many crabs in the early-season. Please join us this weekend (or for any of our future events)! Registration is required, sign up below:
https://riparks.ri.gov/horseshoe-crab-event-signup
https://riparks.ri.gov/events

05/15/2026

This Saturday 2-5 PM!