Good after school programs are very, very sturctured.

If you do not structure your program you will feel the pain
after a short time.

Make the activities interestning and fun, and structured.

On 8/28/08, ch wrote:
> I just got a job as an after school program assistant with
> kids in my classroom ranging in age from 6-12. As part of
> our program we have to have a 30 minute lesson, 30 minute
> activity, and then snack, homework and free time. Our
> lessons need to be on math, science, reading, music and
> health.
>
> I am finding several obstacles here, the age rang of the
> children is very wide, there are between 18 and 30 children
> on any day, the children get done with 7 hours of public
> school and then come to the after school program and they
> really don't want anymore structure.
>
> I was wondering if you all could give me any tips or ideas
> as to what to do.
>
> For our activity we have a decent sized space to use, but
> not much equipment as far as balls and things go. Over all
> our resources are kind of limited.

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