We are just 37 days from Makom Community Afterschool’s opening day on September 3! And we’re so excited about it! Just like it takes a supportive community to raise children, it takes a supportive community to help Makom Community be prepared for our launch. And we need your help to make sure we have a high quality program ready to roll out in just over a month.
We’re starting small to focus on the quality of our learning experiences and all the services we offer Makom Community families. Our teacher to student ratio will typically be about 1:6 so that all our children attending afterschool and camps will get personalized attention while they are at Makom Community. In addition to that very low ratio, we’re also subsidizing our afterschool program by 40% so that we are affordable for more families. We need your help making sure that every family who wants to enroll their child at Makom Community can do so.
All our child-led learning materials are brand-new. We’re creating them throughout the year as our afterschool students show us what they are interested in. Being responsive in that way requires some flexibility in the budget to be responsive to the interests of our learners.
We’re setting up our space to support child-led learning. Imagine…
- A fully-stocked art center with changing projects related to our learning topic,
- Sensory tables where our students can explore curricular objects and Hebrew letters
- Child-sized podiums and puppetry stages for children to engage in story telling and dramatic play
- A kitchen stocked for kid-friendly cooking projects
- And much more!
All the right stuff could never be enough without our top-notch staff. Every day Beverly and our Lead Teacher will be there with all the students. Throughout the week, a variety of other staff with unique talents will join us to explore nature, spoken Hebrew, dance, and more! Each of these staff members are trained informal Jewish educators who are eager to build relationships with all our Makom Community children and families, ready to model their own love of Jewish life, and their own ongoing learning about Jewish traditions.
So join us! Donate toward our Indiegogo campaign for $15,000. It takes a village to raise thoughtful, curious children, and we’d love to have you join our village—from near or far—and help give Makom Community families THE BEST village to raise their children.