Fall Community Dinner

The teens and afterschoolers took a bunch of pictures at our Fall Community Dinner.  This slide show is a conglomeration of all the photos.  Be sure to join us on December 7th for our Holiday Community Dinner, sponsored by the Windjammer!

Preschool in the Free Press!

For the past 14 years, the King Street Preschool has benefitted from weekly visits to Shelburne farms where children learn about animals, farming, and the world around them.  The Free Press ran an article about it today.  Here's the link:  Kids Say Goodbye to Animals at Shelburne Falls.

More Photos from the Afterschool

King Street September Technostats

Our technology coordinator (that's me!) LOVES numbers, and I've been keeping track of the ways that the afterschoolers use the technology for a while now.  This month, I decided to add the numbers up, so here they are:

• In September, 41 Afterschoolers chose to use technology over the course of 14 recorded days (the actual number of days of program was higher, but I started recording after a week of school).  This includes use of computers, digital cameras, and the wii.
  
• That's a total of 77% of the children in the Afterschool program using technology this month.
• 70% of the girls in the Afterschool Program used technology one or more times.
  
• 69% of boys in the Afterschool Program used technology one or more times.
  
• The person who used technology the largest number of times chose to be in the computer room 12 days out of 14.
  
• The total number of technology 'touches' (one child using technology on a given day) was 171.

And, one final statistic:

• 20% of the 41 children who used technology at King Street Center have access to computers at home.