Jenks Community Education

Experience different cultures and learn to make and taste dishes from around the world! This is a hands-on cooking class where students will practice skills used in the kitchen and prepare food from Italy, Mexico, and China. Students will take the recipes home.

Students will explore and use different types of media and expand their creativity. They will paint a canvas, print with the sun, create with clay, and build cardboard sculptures. A $15 cash supply fee will be collected by the instructor at the first day of camp.

Students will participate in fun, enriching activities while being introduced to their new school. They will learn how to find sessions, open their locker, and stay organized while meeting teachers and making new friends. Students are encouraged to bring a water bottle. Enjoy daily snacks and a pizza lunch on the last day. Open to all incoming 5th grade and new-to-district 6th grade student attending East Intermediate in Fall 2025. Appropriate dress is shorts, t-shirts, sandals/shoes. Inappropriate dress is excessively short shorts, spaghetti strap tops, sagging pants. If your student needs a paraprofessional at Early Back Academy, please mark that on this enrollment form. Held at Jenks East Intermediate main building. Please enter from 91st Street next to the tennis courts. Drop students off in the front oval and pick them up in the back north car oval. Enrollment is limited. Early Back is a voluntary, tuition-based program.