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After-School – Great for Every Kid!

Check the latest issue of the Playbook newsletter for information on programs and activities, plus how to register your child.

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After-School Program Overview

Grades K-5
Who says you can’t learn and have fun at the same time? Kids do it everyday in Decatur’s After-School Programs. Animal Crackers, Whiz Kids, and Project REAL are offered in collaboration with City Schools of Decatur. Animal Crackers serves kindergarten through3rd grade students. Its age-appropriate activities, combined with outside time and a caring staff, is almost like going home to milk and cookies (but with more friends and more fun.)

Whiz Kids at Glennwood Academy includes lots of kid-driven activities. Our 4th and 5th graders are involved in choosing and planning the program themselves. Project REAL at Renfroe Middle School gives its students a voice in planning special interest classes, field trips and community service projects. Kids at the middle school can be a part of the program every day or just be a part of what interests them most.
 

After school fees are due the 15th of each month prior to the beginning of each session. Session 1 fees are due July 15 and continue each month. There is a fee holiday in December.

Animal Crackers, Grade K-3
Hours: M-F, dismissal to 6:15 p.m.
Locations: Clairemont, Oakhurst, Winnona Park, Decatur Recreation Center

Whiz Kids, 4th/5th Academy
Hours: M-F, dismissal to 6:15 p.m.

Registration fee: $35

Full registration (M-F) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Resident $255/session, Nonresident $275/session

Part-time Registration -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Resident:

$60 one day/week per four-week session

$120 two days/week

$180 three days/week

Nonresident:

$70 one day/week per four-week session

$140 two days/week

$210 three days/week

Waiting Lists: The elementary school sites (K-3 and 4-5) will fill up. Parents may also place their K-3 students in the program held at Decatur Recreations Center until it is filled. Other children will be placed on a waiting list for the program. As children move during the course of the year, those on the waiting list will be placed at Decatur Recreation Center or their home school, depending on where they are on the list and their requested site.

For more information contact Marian Melton, call 404-377-0494 send an email.

3Project REAL
Grades 6-8
There’s lots of new things for you to do! Come every day or just sign up for a class. You can hang with Project REAL before and after your class. Kids who register for five days per week get a free class of their choice. See what works for your busy schedule. Fridays will feature youth-directed activities including monthly field trips (for additional fee), service learning projects, and special events. Get REAL at RMS.

Barrett Tibbetts is the new site director for Project REAL. Barrett is a graduate of Decatur High School. He is currently pursuing a degree in education, raising his son Brian with wife, Robin Tibbetts (a teacher at Renfroe), and working really hard to make Project REAL a program that will be engaging and fun for middle-schoolers.

Project REAL • grades 6-8

Renfroe Middle School

M-F, dismissal to 6:15 p.m.

Registration Fee: $35

Full Registration -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Resident: $170/session

Nonresident: $190/session

Part-time Registration -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Resident: $40 one day/week per four-week session

$80 two days week, $120 three days/week

Nonresident: $50 one day/week per four-week session

$100 two days/week, $150 three days/week

Class Registration Resident:

$45 per 4-week/4-class session

$90 per four-week/8-class session

Nonresident:

$55 per 4-week/4-class session

$110 per four-week/8-class session

All-Day Camps
Grades K-8
Teacher work days/most holidays

Animal Crackers -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Resident: $30/day ∙ Nonresident: $35/day

Whiz Kids and Project REAL -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Resident: $40/day ∙ Nonresident: $45/day

Children and Youth Services provide care for students on Teacher Work Days and other holidays. This allows parents to be at work and gives the children a day with friends from other after-school sites. Children not enrolled in the after-school program are eligible to attend all-day camps. Registration is limited.

Animal Crackers children (K-3) meet and play at the Decatur Recreation Center, 7:30 a.m.-6:15 p.m. Each day has a special theme. Students attending Whiz Kids and Project REAL (4th-8th) will meet at Decatur Rec and proceed on a field trip or participate in a service learning project that day. Children bring a lunch from home. Drinks and snacks are provided.

For more information contact Marian Melton, call 404-378-1082 send an email.

* Limited financial assistance is available for Decatur residents who demonstrate a need.