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Kids in Motion

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Kids In Motion will give up to 10% of the session fee’s back to the school. For example, if a school has 5 kids enroll in the fall 9 week session, Kids in Motion will give 5% of the dues back to the school. If there are 6 kids enrolled, then 6% will go back to the school. The complete breakdown is included below. The max we give back is 10%.

We charge $10 per week. Our afterschool programs follow the school’s 9 week schedule. If 10 kids sign up for the 9 week program, Kids in Motion will give the school $90 back, for example.

All of our instructors have passed a DHS state background investigation and we are all CPR certified.

Kids in Motion can be an additional revenue stream for your school.
Center Reimbursement:

  • 5 kids enrolled = 5% of tuition paid back to the school
  • 6 kids enrolled = 6% of tuition paid back to the school
  • 7 kids enrolled = 7% of tuition paid back to the school
  • 8 kids enrolled = 8% of tuition paid back to the school
  • 9 kids enrolled = 9% of tuition paid back to the school
  • 10 or more kids enrolled = 10% of tuition paid back to the school
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Preschool
Environmental
Education
Programs

OKC ZooThe OKC Zoo Education Department is pleased to bring you exciting programs designed to help child care centers develop a child’s sense of discovery and compassion for the natural world.

  • Age appropriate programs are presented at your facility.
  • Each program is only $75! (mileage fees may apply)
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Nature Inked

“Interpreting Nature for Kids Through Education and Design”

Did your childhood involve mud, free play, and adventure? Will your children or grandchildren be permitted the same opportunities? Globally the geography of childhood is rapidly shrinking. As kids spend more time inside and less time exploring they are much less connected to nature. They are not being allowed to develop the sense of place that fosters sustainability. Nor are they able to truly engage and fully develop their wonders. Their time, spaces, and consequently experiences, are throughly impoverished. This has tremendous physical, social, and psychological implications.
From birth to adulthood there are many positive benefits to spending time in nature. Children of all ages need movement and multi-sensory learning experiences. They need to make tangible connections through first-hand experiences. They need to build, create, explore, and imagine.
Nature is not only large game preserves or national parks far away. It is also in our backyards and schoolyards, our puddles and ponds. It is important for people to learn about their local environments because “in the end we conserve only what we love; we love only what we understand; and we will understand only what we are taught.” Baba Dioum, 1968

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Program Ideas that Really Add up

Looking for ways to creatively infuse math activities into your afterschool programming?
Click on the Mixing in Math (MiM) website, http://mixinginmath.terc.edu.

Within the site you will find over 150 math-related activities and variations along with training materials for staff-all available for free downloading and ready for you to add into existing program components, such as gym games and snack time.

Funded by the National Science Foundation, MiM is a collaboration among TERC and afterschool programs affiliated with the YMCA, Girls Inc., BELL, and the St. Louis Science Centers. MiM, currently in its third year, is poised to reach 50,000 to 100,000 children nationwide, most of them low-income, along with tens of thousands of afterschool educators.

“This project has already made a substantial impact, as afterschool programs build math into all aspects of their programming,” says Marlene Kliman. Mixing in Math Project Director (marlene_kliman@terc.edu, 617-873-9654).

“Afterschool staff report that the great majority of children are quickly gaining enthusiasm for math, along with skills and confidence.”

Posted at February 1st, 2011.

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