Afterschool Activities

[Anonymous]

At what age did your child start afterschool activities? So far, we only participate in weekend programs. Curious as to when the afterschool stuff starts. A better question might be, how long were you able to avoid afterschool programs.

[Anonymous]

My 7 year old (just finished first grade) is pretty tired after school and refuses to try anything after school. My son is 5 and starting K in the fall and is desperate for after school activities... He'll have a full roster come fall. So, in my experience, it's kid dependent.

[Anonymous]

Mine started participating in after school enrichment activities at his school around first grade.

[Anonymous]

Are you doing these activities as part of an afterschool program, or you're taking your kids to lessons at different places?

[Anonymous]

Immediately. Kindergarten.

[Anonymous]

K - girl scouts every other Tuesday, swimming on Saturday

1st - girl scouts every other Tuesday, gymnastics on Wednesday and ice skating on Saturday.

Upcoming in 2nd - girl scouts, gymnastics and ice skating will continue and gong to try to add piano.

[Anonymous]

I think his age group started practicing soccer during the week when he was in second grade. He's always gone to after school care because I work full time (single mom).

[Anonymous]

Third grade. But then they choose gymnastics team so it has been almost daily practice.

[Anonymous]

Depends on the child...

my older child gets up at the crack of dawn, so before school activities at school are a great fit (sadly, no fitness but he's done chess since KG at his ES)
younger child stays up late, so after school activities are no issue; KG for her too

[Anonymous]

My kids have done most of their afterschool activities at the school, during Extended Day. DS does a sport program (they rotate through different sports) and theater. DD has done a variety of classes including Kid Fitness, art, programming.

Outside of that, each does one rec sport at a time that has 1-2 practices per week in the evenings, plus a weekend game or practice.

They stuck to this schedule throughout elementary school.

[Anonymous]

K-- nothing
First grade (now)-- one activity a week at the school (except for the past month, when swim team is every day)

[Anonymous]

3/4 is when we started. Did a few in K and in 1st. 1st was at times 3-4 days a week.

[Anonymous]

Our kids are in aftercare til 6 pm at their DCPS. Their old school offered nothing much in the way of after school enrichment, so we did ballet on Saturdays. A lot of parents I met at the playground were doing Stoddert soccer and Washington Ballet. Their new school has all kinds of stuff - karate, robotics, yoga, choir etc. so when we switched they started doing more activities. K and 2nd grade respectively.

[Anonymous]

Started in K. Finished 2nd grade today, still does after school activities: chess and soccer. Will add rocket modeling next year.

[Anonymous]

K: swimming lesson once per week, soccer on Sat

1st: soccer or basketball once per week and on Sat, cub scouts every other Thurs