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.

September at King Street

So, we've been a little quiet on the blog-front for awhile, but the school year has started back up and the Afterschoolers have been taking a LOT of pictures during technology time.

Here are just a few of them:

King Street Survey for the Children

please only click on this if you are with a King Street Staff Member.

Support King Street and Win a Trip to the U.S. Open

Time's running out to purchase raffle tickets to win a trip to the U.S. Open!  Visit the King Street Center page to find out all the details on just what you could win.

Our Teens Learning to Play Volleyball!

Volleyball is another new activity we're adding to our repertoire here at the King Street Center.  Here's a great video of our teens and one of our staff members trying it out with a tennis net we rigged up to be close to volleyball height.  It's certainly new to us here and we're hoping to develop a partnership with some local volleyball coaches to be able to build a good foundation for mastering volleyball!  And we love it already...  Enjoy!  Let us know if you'd like to help.