CLUBS GIVE YOUNGSTERS FUN PLACE AFTER CLASS.Byline: Ann-Marie Sanchez Daily News Staff Writer Christopher Beruney, 4, literally ran circles around his new kindergarten kindergarten [Ger.,=garden of children], system of preschool education. Friedrich Froebel designed (1837) the kindergarten to provide an educational situation less formal than that of the elementary school but one in which children's creative play instincts would be friends during a game of duck, duck, goose. Under the shade of large trees, Christopher and 14 other children took turns chasing each other during their daily bout of fun and after-school activities. It's a time Christopher and his friends look forward to after a tough day of ABCs inside classrooms at Madera Elementary School elementary school: see school. . ``I like coming here better than a baby sitter because they're not that fun,'' said Christopher, dressed in white shorts and a colorful T-shirt. ``They have old toys and here they have new ones.'' Sports, games, and arts and crafts arts and crafts, term for that general field of applied design in which hand fabrication is dominant. The term was coined in England in the late 19th cent. as a label for the then-current movement directed toward the revivifying of the decorative arts. are just a few of the activities offered by the Rancho Simi Rancho San José de Nuestra Senora de Altagarcia y Simi is one of the land grants in California by the Spanish government. The name derives from Shimiji, the name of the Chumash village here before the Spanish. Recreation and Parks District's See-Me Before and After School Clubs, which officials say has doubled its enrollment since last year. During the first week of school, waiting lists are growing as parents hustle hus·tle v. hus·tled, hus·tling, hus·tles v.tr. 1. To jostle or shove roughly. 2. To convey in a hurried or rough manner: hustled the prisoner into a van. to make day-care arrangements for their children around their work schedules and budgets. At Madera, 116 children are signed up for the recreation program, with about 450 students participating districtwide. The program starts at 6:45 a.m. and runs through 6 p.m., when parents pick up their children. ``It's the first time we've had a waiting list,'' said Rick Johnson Rick Johnson may refer to:
With sites located at seven elementary schools, the program offers parents and children a convenient alternative to private day-care facilities or baby sitters, officials said. ``On the average, we have 70 to 80 kids a day,'' said Madera Elementary site coordinator Emily Yates. ``It's not a classroom type of activity and kids get to mainstream with other grades.'' Snacks, nap time and an opportunity to do homework are also part of the recreation program that costs $190 a month for kindergartners and $150 for other elementary school children. An added benefit for parents is that the sites are located at elementary schools - Crestview, Garden Grove Garden Grove, city (1990 pop. 143,050), Orange co., S Calif., a suburb of Long Beach and Los Angeles, on the Santa Ana River; founded 1877, inc. 1956. Many of its residents work in nearby aerospace and defense installations, and there is light manufacturing. , Knolls, Mountain View, Township and Vista. CAPTION(S): 3 Photos Photo: (1--color) Kindergartners play a game of duck, du ck, goose Wednesday at Madera Elementary School's after-school day-care program in Simi. (2--color) A friendly game of soccer keeps students at Madera Elementary's after-school club busy. So far, 116 children have signed up for the program that costs between $150 and $190 a month. (3--color) Minh Nyguen, 5, relaxes after a tough day in the classroom by making his way steadily across the monkey bars monkey bars pl.n. A three-dimensional structure of poles and bars on which children can play, as in a playground; a jungle gym. . Andy Holzman/Special to the Daily News |
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