Casimir Pulaski - Women and Families Center

Students who attend the Casimir Pulaski Before and After School Program will participate in lots of exciting activities! Two staff members are available to assist students with homework and reading. Daily snack is provided by the cafeteria and usually consists of fresh fruit, cereal or crackers. Our location in the gym allows us to play lots of teambuilding games such as "Steal the Bacon" and Volleyball. For those students who do not wish to participate in recreational activities, we provide time for dramatic play and arts and crafts. "Free painting" is a favorite activity along with a variety of card games and building manipulatives. Students will also participate in enriching science projects throughout the school year based on monthly themes.Check out the S.T.A.R. News from Pulaski!

Our Daily Schedule:

6:45-8:00 Free Play

8:00-8:15 Breakfast

8:15-8:30 Gym Time

8:30 Dismissal

2:50/3:20-4:00 Homework/Reading Time

4:00-4:15 Snack Time

4:15-4:45: Project of the Day

4:45-5:15: Gym Activity

5:15-5:30 Boardgames, Computer Time

Students have recently learned how to sew in the Before and After School Program! It's turned into a favorite morning and afternoon activity for boys and girls of any age!

First grader Nevaeh with her hand sewn bear

Teddy bears made by first grader Madison(left) and third grader Olivia (right)

Fifth graders Alex and Jordyn working on their sewing projects

Students learned how to make a healthy after school snack by making strawberry banana smoothies!

For the start of school this year, students got to know each other by making "Silhouette Collages." The outline of their heads were first projected on a wall using a flashlight. Then the outline was carefully traced on to black paper. Students then cut out pictures from magazines of some of their favorite things and glued them on to their heads. Can you tell who's who?

Students created a series of self portraits in the style of Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo and Andy Warhol. Several were entered in the CT After School Network art contest " Faces of After School." The selected finalists Jordyn and Zoe were able to see their original artwork on display at the New Britain Museum of American Art!

Xylia Grade 5 Chalk Relief Portrait	Xylia Grade 5 Pop Art Portrait
Zoe Grade 5 Frida Kahlo Portrait	Zoe Grade 5 Pop Art- Finalist!

Jordyn Grade 4- Finalist!

Jordyn Grade 4 Pop Art

Angelina Grade K Picasso Portrait

Angelina Grade K Frida Kahlo Portrait

Students recreated a gumball machine after learning about cartoonist Rube Goldberg and simple machines. The objective was to use household materials to make a "gumball machine." The machine that took longer to export the gumball wins! Here are the results...

The boys team won with a time of 4.02 seconds!

STATIC ELECTRICITY EXPERIMENTS!

Paleontologists for a day!

Homemade fossil made with glue!

Students discover the process of revealing fossils.

We celebrated "make a hat" day by creating our own hats! (9.15.10)

In honor of International Day of Peace, we created our own "Pinwheels for Peace." This is a worldwide project to promote peace. The pinwheel symbolizes the peace, simplicity and joy we all knew as children. (9.23.10)