{"id":19395,"date":"2020-11-12T09:39:10","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T15:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/twincities\/?p=19395"},"modified":"2020-11-12T09:39:10","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T15:39:10","slug":"sophia-best-of-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/twincities\/uncategorized\/sophia-best-of-all","title":{"rendered":"Sophia – Best of All"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sophia participating in virtual GiGi’s Kitchen.<\/p>\n

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Sophia participating in GiGi’s at Home virtual programming. (With a #BestofAll shirt from Coach Karen’s marathon.)<\/p>\n

Meet Sophia, who is 13 years old, and has been actively involved with our GiGi\u2019s Playhouse Twin Cities community for a number of years. Sophia is thoughtful, helpful, kind, curious, and has a great sense of humor. For many years Sophia and her sister Zoe, have been very involved with Team G, GiGi’s Twin Cities Special Olympics Team. She also has been actively involved with GiGi\u2019s in person programming such as: Tutoring, Speech, Drama Troupe, Social Skills, Yoga, Kids Club, Teen Tastic, and Cooking Club. Then when we shifted to virtual programming after March 13th<\/sup>, locally and nationally, and Sophia has participated in: Teen Tastic, GiGiFIT Kids and Teens, and GiGi\u2019s Kitchen Teen.<\/p>\n

This fall, we received this note from Deb, Sophia\u2019s mom, and GiGi\u2019s Playhouse Twin Cities Board Member, written to us at GiGi\u2019s and leaders from Down Syndrome Association of Minnesota, \u201cI’m sitting here monitoring Sophia’s classes and realizing how much your summer virtual programs have helped her get ready for this distance ride!\u00a0 Thanks so much!\u00a0 Minneapolis completely revamped their distance learning from almost all asynchronous to almost all in real time.\u00a0 She is needing to use mute and chat and rocked at the scavenger hunt today — all that practice paid off! I wasn’t thinking of those benefits when we did the virtual teen classes, but am so thankful she had a safe place to try things out.\u00a0 Hope things are going well for both of you!\u00a0 Appreciatively, Deb\u201d.<\/p>\n

We are thrilled that our virtual Free, purposeful, progressive, educational and therapeutic programming has additional benefits in helping with distance learning that we hadn\u2019t considered!<\/p>\n

We are honored to have Sophia and her entire family \u2013 Deb, John, and Zoe, be part our GiGi\u2019s Twin Cities community.<\/p>\n

Are you interested in volunteering virtually at GiGi\u2019s Playhouse Twin Cities?<\/p>\n

The first step is to sign up:\u00a0HERE<\/a><\/p>\n

Are you interested in getting a family member involved with our GiGi\u2019s Playhouse Twin Cities Programming?<\/p>\n

The first step is to sign up for our local newsletter:\u00a0HERE<\/a><\/p>\n

Then, check out our Local calendar:\u00a0HERE\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Also, check out all the details for On Demand and Live National virtual programming:\u00a0HERE<\/a><\/p>\n

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Sophia participating in virtual GiGi’s Kitchen. Sophia participating in GiGi’s at Home virtual programming. (With a #BestofAll shirt from Coach Karen’s marathon.) Meet Sophia, who is 13 years old, and has been actively involved with our GiGi\u2019s Playhouse Twin Cities community for a number of years. Sophia is thoughtful, helpful, kind, curious, and has a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/twincities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/twincities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/twincities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/twincities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/twincities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/twincities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/twincities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/twincities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/twincities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}