Activities and Special Events

A wide variety of fun, stimulating, enriching actives are scheduled each day. These actives are age appropriate and promote the development of all children in our program.

Recreational activities include art, cooking, music, drama, outdoor sports and games and physical education. Enriching academic programs may include reading, special tutoring camps, writing, computer technology and science.

Junior Achievement, a program that focuses on teaching children about our free enterprise system, may be an option at our programs. Several of our sites have also planed special events such as shows, carnivals and even a Haunted house for Halloween at their programs

Children receive a nutritious snack daily so there is no need for parents to send a special snack or money for the vending machines.

At After School Programs, we realize the importance of homework time and we strive to create a quiet supervised environment where children may do their homework. Parents may mandate that their children do their homework or it may be done according to a parent or child's choice. Many of our programs feature teachers using their classrooms and providing assistance during homework time.

After School Programs. Inc. is the only program that offers enriching, fun, full day field trips directly from the elementary schools on all school holidays and during winter and spring breaks. Past trips have included the Miami Seaquarium. Metrozoo. Museum of Science, IMAX Theater, Flamingo Gardens and Boomers Family Arcade. Our hours of operation on school holidays are 7:45 am to 6:00 pm. Summer recreation programs may also be available at many of our sites.

Entertaining shows that include magicians, ventriloquists, puppets, music and dance, as well as education activities such as hands-on science experiments, and shows spotlighting character education, Hispanic month, and African culture are all part of our Early Release programs featured at each of our after school programs on every Early Release day.