What happens each day in the after-school program?
After-School care begins when the regular school day ends. Manhattan Youth staff members accept the children directly from their classroom teachers and bring them to their meeting places. Every child receives snack–usually consisting of apples, bananas, and pretzel rods. We separate the children into groups and our club teachers pick them up to escort them to an activity room, along with one of our counselors. After arrival and snack, the children participate in one of our “clubs,” which are the activities that you select on the registration form. These classes typically last for an hour and fifteen minutes, after which the club teachers and counselors escort the children back to their meeting places, where they break up into different groupings for what we refer to as “choice” or “variety” time, in one of our open play spaces, schoolyards, cafeterias or gyms. Activities during the second part of the afternoon are organized and supervised by our counselors, and include sports, games,
