Late Birds at JFKS

Dear Parents of incoming EC children,

Last Chance!!! We have a few openings left for our EC camp starting Monday!

We invite you to join our Late Birds Entrance Class Camp from 8:30-15:00 (August 21-31) that takes place right before the official EC start of school. Our camp provides a wonderful opportunity for the new EC kids to get to know their first friends and get acquainted with the John F. Kennedy School campus in a warm, fun and gentle environment.

In our small group we will explore the EC playground and school grounds, practice daily school and hygiene routines, eat together, do tons of arts and crafts, learn about nutrition read to the children, sing outdoors and play an array of indoor and outdoor games.

Late Birds is one of two childcare options at the JFKS. Please don’t hesitate to contact us at [email protected] if you need more information about our camp or the Late Birds after school program.

We are back on Facebook at Late Birds. Happy 2022! Thank you for your patience. Welcome all new families to our page and feel free to leave some potential topic suggestions below! Take a look at all of these new and fabulous photos.

Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there. Today and every day you should be celebrated.

Thank you to all the families who have been joining us for our emergency care here at Late Birds.

The kids love making their own snacks in the morning. We try to be as creative as we can. From making our own sushi rolls with a twist, Earth Day pots, cream cheese with fresh herbs on homemade bread and more, we try to inspire the children to use their own hands to find their love for food.

Welcome back to distance learning and we hope you all had a great Winter Break! Thank you for those who joined us online over the vacation.

Here are our Late Birds Skype times for this week:

Tuesday, 9 February @ 14:45-15:15
No Bake Red Ice Box Cake for Valentine’s Day
Cooking Corona Style with Debra

Wed., 10 February @ 13:45-14:15
Reading in English with Lucy

Thursday, 11 February @ 15:00-15:30
Virtual Valentine’s Party with Hearts and Crafts and a Scavenger Hunt
with Tina and Hanna

We are now online and had such a fun session today making snowmen/women with Tina and Hanna.

Please see our online Skype schedule for this week below.:

Monday, 25. Jan. @ 15:00-15:30
Snowman poems and How to make a Sock Snowman

Tuesday, 26. Jan. @ 14:30-15:10
Cooking Corona Style: Making homemade body scrubs for boys and girls with food from your own kitchen.

Wed., 27. Jan. @ 13:45-14:15 for EC-2nd grade
Reading picture books in English

Wed., 27. Jan. @ 14:20-14:50
Tell your favorite joke and Show & Tell

Thursday 28, Jan. @ 15:00-15:30
Winter and Frost themes: Jack Frost and a German poem about frost and How to make a winter collage using different materials

Friday, 29. Jan. @ 14:00-14:30 for EC-4th grade
Reading time in German

Email us with your Skype name or for a link if you want to join.

Our poems today:

A cute little snowman,
had a carrot nose,
Along came a rabbit,
and what do you suppose?
The cute little rabbit,
looking for his lunch,
ate that snowman's nose,
nibble, nibble, crunch!


S is for snowman
round and fat.
Sitting outside,
wearing a hat!
I brought him inside
and sat him on the mat.
Before very long
this snowman
was flat.

Der Schneemann wartet
Möhrennase
und Augen aus Kohlen.
Schneeweißer Kerl
vom Kopf zu den Sohlen.
Grellroter Topf
auf seinem Kopf,
steht er im Garten,
kann's nicht erwarten,
dass du bald kommst
und nach ihm schaust
und ihm ganz rasch
eine Schneefrau noch baust.
© Elke Bräunling

Happy New Year to our amazing Late Birds family! May this year bring new happiness, new achievements and may 2021 be the year of hugs! Wishing you all a year full of health. We can't wait to see you all again.

Happy Halloween! Our Late Birds kids were in the spirit and our Halloween party was a real treat.
We had a fang-tastic afternoon filled with ghost stories, apple decorating, musical chairs, eating treats, making ghost lollipops and our famous pumpkin toss game. Don't be a scaredy cat to look at some photos. We witch you a Happy Halloween!

Happy Fall Break dear families. We made it! Please take a look at some of our Late Birds photos. What are your plans this vacation? Please share if you'd like!

If nothing changes corona-wise we look forward to seeing you on October 26th. Stay healthy and safe!

Our clubs are back in action!

Please email Late Birds if your child is interested in one or more of our weekly clubs and if we don't hear from you, sign up is on the same day for anyone interested.

If a staff member who is leading the club for that day is sick, the club will be canceled.

Mondays: 2:10-2:50 pm
Community Magical Helpers with Hanna outside. All grades. We start the hour with helping clean up our campus and end it with some self-made magic tricks.

Tuesdays: 2:10-2:50 pm
Creative Cooking during Corona Times with Debra. We will use the hallway tables to ensure our grade appropriate groups will have fun preparing and cooking Corona style! All hygiene rules will be followed.

Wednesdays: 2:10 -2:50 pm
Library Club. Lucy will take weekly trips to the library to check out books and read to the children as a group. EC will start and other grades will follow later on in the Fall.

Thursdays: 2:10-open end
Nature Club with Tina. All grades. Outdoor fun with herbs, gardening and planting.

Fridays: 2:15-open end
Open Art with Tina outside or in the Art Room. All grades.
Children may use our materials freely to do what inspires them. (Maximum number of participants is 12 and all will be distanced with masks.)

Nature Club News:
Planting a garden can affect not only your child's body but their soul as well. Here's to our happy gardeners!

We are thrilled to see so many new faces at Late Birds this 2020/21 school year. What a start it has been! Here is a sneak peek of what we've been up to.

Labor Day fun at Futurium with Late Birds!