Kindergarten After-School Activities
Your kindergarten student is getting accustomed to daily school schedules, behavior modification in an instructional setting and being bogged down with academic material, and needs some release from structure. Engage the student in minimal amounts of after-school activities to keep his focus on becoming academically acclimated. Keep the activities unregulated and allow for creativity and versatility in his after-school plans.
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School-Based Activities
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School districts across the nation offer after-school programs for their students. School-based, after-school care allows children to participate in various interactions with students, games and physically challenging activities. Cooperating weather supports outdoor play on the school play ground and with equipment, such as balls, hula hoops and parachutes.
Religious-Based Activities
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Local churches offer after-school activities for their congregation and students outside the fellowship. Members of the church, either volunteers or paid caretakers, engage the kindergarten students in activities in line with school-based care in addition to religious teachings. The option of religious-based, after-school activities are appropriate for many families but not for everyone.
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Center-Based Activities
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Recreation centers and local YMCAs have activities for after-school care. These organizations often transport the children directly from the school to the center and parents pick up the children by a predesignated time. The ease of provided busing is attractive to parents with a later work schedule although most center-based associations require a weekly fee. Activities of a center-based program include swimming, recreational and team sports, homework help and activities involving the arts.
Sports and Recreational Activities
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Dance, soccer, midget or pee-wee football, cheerleading and basketball are common extra-curricular activities for kindergarten students. Many sports and recreational activities promote physical fitness, team loyalty, moral ethics and a feeling of independence for the student. Sports for children as young as five-years-old pose concern for parents regarding the sport-school balance.
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