YMCA’s Kids’ Club needs more participants
NORWICH – Currently in its third week, the YMCA’s summer pre-school program, Kids’ Club, is still accepting more children for the fun-filled, half day program.
According to instructor Kendall Johnson, the class has seen an average of five to seven children in the first weeks; however, they have the capacity to take up to 16 children.
Every day, Johnson and teaching assistant Nicole Wood prepare different activities for the children based around a weekly theme. This week, Johnson said, the theme is the ocean. Among the activities planned for the week, the children took a field trip to The Fish Bowl, went fishing using the water table in the pre-school class room and, on Wednesday, they enjoyed a water carnival in the YMCA’s community room.
The students who attended the program on Wednesday had the chance to play carnival style games, centered around an ocean theme. The carnival included games, like a duck pond, a bean bag toss and a knock down the fish activity. With the help of some community volunteers, students participated in the games for the chance to win ocean themed stickers.
While the program offers some structured activities, Johnson said a lot of the class is kid-directed. “We try to have activities that all the kids can enjoy doing,” Johnson said. “If they ask for something, we try to incorporate that into our day.”
Johnson said that everyday the students have time for free play and time in the Kids’ Gym and every week they take make crafts, go on field trips, work on gross motor skills and take a trip to the library for a special program, including stories, puppets and felt board activities.
With four weeks left in the program, Johnson hopes that more children will participate in the activities she has planned. Next week’s theme will be science, and students will conduct experiments to make things like play-dough, gak and bubbles, and the Roger’s Center will host a program on birds. After that, themes will focus on bugs, trains and cars, and finally fruits and vegetables.
Johnson explained that while the program is primarily a fun summer activity, it is also educational. “There is a good educational piece to this program. We make sure the kids are learning,” Johnson said. In addition, the program provides socialization and makes the kids feel a little more grown-up.
The Kids’ Club program is open to children between the ages of three and five who are fully potty trained. The program is offered from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. five days a week. The cost of attendance is $7 per day for YMCA members or $10 a day for non-members. Parents are asked to register their children at the front desk.
YMCA Youth and Family Director Bonnie Tiffany explained that both Johnson and Wood have years of pre-school experience. Johnson is currently working on her Masters Degree in Early Childhood Education and Wood has a degree in Early Childhood Education. “They are both great with the kids and extremely well qualified,” Tiffany said.
For more information about the program, contact Tiffany at 336-9622 ext. 28 or visit the YMCA’s web site at www.norwichymca.com.
According to instructor Kendall Johnson, the class has seen an average of five to seven children in the first weeks; however, they have the capacity to take up to 16 children.
Every day, Johnson and teaching assistant Nicole Wood prepare different activities for the children based around a weekly theme. This week, Johnson said, the theme is the ocean. Among the activities planned for the week, the children took a field trip to The Fish Bowl, went fishing using the water table in the pre-school class room and, on Wednesday, they enjoyed a water carnival in the YMCA’s community room.
The students who attended the program on Wednesday had the chance to play carnival style games, centered around an ocean theme. The carnival included games, like a duck pond, a bean bag toss and a knock down the fish activity. With the help of some community volunteers, students participated in the games for the chance to win ocean themed stickers.
While the program offers some structured activities, Johnson said a lot of the class is kid-directed. “We try to have activities that all the kids can enjoy doing,” Johnson said. “If they ask for something, we try to incorporate that into our day.”
Johnson said that everyday the students have time for free play and time in the Kids’ Gym and every week they take make crafts, go on field trips, work on gross motor skills and take a trip to the library for a special program, including stories, puppets and felt board activities.
With four weeks left in the program, Johnson hopes that more children will participate in the activities she has planned. Next week’s theme will be science, and students will conduct experiments to make things like play-dough, gak and bubbles, and the Roger’s Center will host a program on birds. After that, themes will focus on bugs, trains and cars, and finally fruits and vegetables.
Johnson explained that while the program is primarily a fun summer activity, it is also educational. “There is a good educational piece to this program. We make sure the kids are learning,” Johnson said. In addition, the program provides socialization and makes the kids feel a little more grown-up.
The Kids’ Club program is open to children between the ages of three and five who are fully potty trained. The program is offered from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. five days a week. The cost of attendance is $7 per day for YMCA members or $10 a day for non-members. Parents are asked to register their children at the front desk.
YMCA Youth and Family Director Bonnie Tiffany explained that both Johnson and Wood have years of pre-school experience. Johnson is currently working on her Masters Degree in Early Childhood Education and Wood has a degree in Early Childhood Education. “They are both great with the kids and extremely well qualified,” Tiffany said.
For more information about the program, contact Tiffany at 336-9622 ext. 28 or visit the YMCA’s web site at www.norwichymca.com.
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