Read Ready Covington

10/29/2025

Funny and perhaps a bit extreme... but it really is never too early - or too late- to start readying with your children.
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Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

10/29/2025

Coming November 6th for all Covington, KY PreK- Grade 3 residents or students... it's the MAYOR'S WINTER READING CHALLENGTE using MyF2B.com (Footsteps2Brilliance).
Just 20 minutes daily reading and learning with MyF2B meets the weekly 75 minute challenge and enters your child for SIX CHANCES to win cool prizes! The reading challenge runs Nov. 6 -Dec. 10, 2025! Good luck, Readers!
At home, school, on-the-go- MyF2B on your child's tablet goes with you everywhere.

10/16/2025

🎃 The Latonia Business Association’s Halloween Block Party returns Saturday, October 18, from 2–5 p.m.

Enjoy games, treats, and community fun with our Latonia neighbors!

10/16/2025

Carve a pumpkin.

Something spooky is brewing tomorrow night at Randolph Park 👻

Join us Wednesday, October 15 from 5 to 7 PM at the David Housley Pavilion for Pumpkin Carving Night and Sparks in the Park 🎃
Come carve, create, and celebrate with us!

10/16/2025

Registration ends this Friday for the “Homeschool Cooks” series!

4 Cooking Classes for Ages 9-12
Tuesdays Starting October 14 | 9:30-11:30am

This class is designed for homeschoolers, and students will work through 4 weeks of menus, learning cooking and kitchen skills along the way. Class meets October 14, 21, 28, Nov 4.

Skills You’ll Learn:

Kitchen Safety
Knife Skills
Measuring Skills
Meal Prep

Menus:

Week 1: Knife Skills – Homemade ranch with fresh cut veggies, homemade bbq on baked chicken wings
Week 2: Reading Recipes – Veggies Skewers, Meat and Cheese Egg Bake, Garlic Bread
Week 3: Mise en Place – Asian-Style Egg Rolls, Dipping Sauce, Slaw
Week 4: Cooking Improv – Cheese and Chicken Quesadillas, Homemade Pico de Gallo

https://www.bakerhunt.org/events/homeschool-cooks-october-14-2025-486681/

10/11/2025

Children’s rhythm skills are strongly linked to early language and reading development. Studies have found that preschoolers who can clap, tap, or move in time with a beat tend to perform better on early literacy measures, such as phonological awareness and word recognition. This is because rhythm and reading share underlying neural processes involving timing, prediction, and auditory processing.

Brain recordings show that children with stronger rhythm skills have more precise neural responses to speech sounds, allowing them to segment words into syllables and phonemes more effectively.

In 2024, researchers extended this understanding by using a rhythm-based training game with elementary students. After six weeks, the children who practiced rhythmic tasks showed measurable improvements in reading fluency compared to a control group.

Scientists think this happens because reading is inherently rhythmic: the brain must synchronize to the cadence of language, anticipate upcoming sounds, and map them to meaning. Engaging in rhythm games or musical play seems to train these timing mechanisms, giving children a cognitive boost that helps reading come more naturally.

10/09/2025

Reading can taste delicious! Great life skills opportunity for kids.

Registration ends this Friday for the “Homeschool Cooks” series!

4 Cooking Classes for Ages 9-12
Tuesdays Starting October 14 | 9:30-11:30am

This class is designed for homeschoolers, and students will work through 4 weeks of menus, learning cooking and kitchen skills along the way. Class meets October 14, 21, 28, Nov 4.

Skills You’ll Learn:

Kitchen Safety
Knife Skills
Measuring Skills
Meal Prep

Menus:

Week 1: Knife Skills – Homemade ranch with fresh cut veggies, homemade bbq on baked chicken wings
Week 2: Reading Recipes – Veggies Skewers, Meat and Cheese Egg Bake, Garlic Bread
Week 3: Mise en Place – Asian-Style Egg Rolls, Dipping Sauce, Slaw
Week 4: Cooking Improv – Cheese and Chicken Quesadillas, Homemade Pico de Gallo

https://www.bakerhunt.org/events/homeschool-cooks-october-14-2025-486681/

10/08/2025

Audree’s Scholarship

Audree's Scholarship celebrates Audree’s life and art, the importance of artistic expression in the lives of youth, and the benefits of mindfulness in all aspects of life.

This scholarship provides youth students with tuition to a unique class titled “Art and Mindfulness” at the Baker Hunt Art and Cultural Center, a class designed to foster an understanding of our own thoughts and emotions, and to find a healthy way to express
them through art.

To apply for the scholarship, follow the link below and complete the application. To support this effort, please consider making a donation by following the link below.

AUDREE’S SCHOLARSHIP: TO GIVE OR APPLY
www.bakerhunt.org/audree

The class will be held on November 15 from 12:00-2:30 pm at Baker Hunt Art and Cultural Center. Class is for ages 12-16

10/07/2025

During times of change when adults are stressed and fearful and their children are also impacted. Using appropriate self-care and child-care models healthy coping skills. When trauma is experienced- responding with trauma-informed care helps children and adults overcome and heal. Family Nurturing Center offers FREE services by qualified providers for you and your family. Check out the upcoming offerings here... https://familynurture.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/wellness-schedule-fall-2025.png. .

An integrated approach to healing that offers innovative ways to reduce stress, build resiliency, and feel better.

10/07/2025

Join our Read Ready Covington Champions group to impact how families and community partner better and in more intentional ways to prepare our children for school and life. Individuals with children birth - grade 3, businesses, neighbors...all are welcome. Come help change the future for children in our city! Next Champions meeting is Thursday Oct. 9 at 1730 Russell St. (Cov Public Works conference room) at 11:30am- 1pm. We can give each child a stronger foundation and better tomorrow by accepting our call to action today! Questions? [email protected]