You’ve decided to offer a new after school program, or maybe an adult program. You’re pretty sure that enough people will be interested in taking the class. Now it’s time to create the curriculum.
Before you start you should make sure you cover my three E’s of programming – Entertainment, Education and Empowerment.
Its been raining off and on here in Northern California so I decided to dig up some of my reference books and find some rainy day activities that I knew were good and have used in the past. Below is an excerpt from a book called Camp Program Ideas, edited and compiled by Janet Gibson,…
The other day I was talking on the phone with a friend of mine, Susan, who is the director of an after school YMCA site. We were discussing programming, as we always do, and she mentioned that she started running a sign language program. I took a semester of sign language in college. I really…
A few weeks ago we started an after school program based around fitness. If you have ever tried to plan a fitness program for kids you know that it’s not as easy as having the kids run and do sit-ups. You want the kids to enjoy themselves so that they will continue to be active…
April 20th-26th, 2009 is TV Turnoff Week. Yesterday I told you that I would give you 20 ideas for programs you can put together for TV Turnoff Week. Well, here we go… Family Bingo Night Community Dog Walk Family Bike Ride A One Night Gardening Class Dodgeball Tournament Mommy and Me Arts and Crafts A…
The other day I responded to a posting on the YMCA forums. The post asked for suggestions of tot programs other than sports. I responded with a few thoughts and wanted to share one of them with you. If you’re doing tot programs you ‘re probably doing some Mommy and Me classes, tot sports classes…
