Are You Looking For An Afterschool Center That Is Like No Other? You have found it!
Little Sun People welcomes you to the opening of our new Afterschool Center, opening on Monday, September 9, 2024!
There's only one Little Sun People and we are it, with our long history of offering a thoughtful, practical, well-designed African centered curriculum that helps our children know and understand the importance of their own great history and out of that knowing, helping them to develop a strong, grounded, positive, self-identity and overall confidence. This is a place where they learn to believe in themselves and their people while at the same time getting a grasp on methods for navigating a system that has historically been unjust to them. At the same time, Little Sun People carefully understands and follows the guidelines of the New York State Education Department in regard to the cognitive domains that support our children's foundational skills for academic success.
In addition to our afterschool homework support system, we also offer the warmth, the love, the respect, and the understanding that only we know how to give to each other. We do our work in a clean, newly renovated, safe environment on the fourth (4) floor of our elevated building at 352 Classon Avenue, Brooklyn. Our hours are 2:45pm-6pm, Monday - Friday.
Our program design for each child is individually arrived at through consultation between the parent, the child, and the afterschool center director/teacher at a one on one meeting that takes place at the child's entry to program.
Our credentialed afterschool Director, Mama Stella, is here ready to welcome your amazing school age child to the best enriched, Black child-centered educational environment in Brooklyn.
Each class group at Little Sun People is named after historical and ancient peoples or place in Africa, but with a twist. The after school students are no exception!
Makonde (After School Program) – The Makonde are an ethnic group in East Africa located in Southeast Tanzania and Northern Mozambique. It is a matrilineal society (decent is traced through the mother and her ancestors) where children and inheritances belong to women, and husbands move into the village of their wives. The Makonde people are best known for their wood carvings and their observances of puberty rites of passage.
The Little Sun People After School Program is designed to assist working parents of Little Sun People siblings, as well as, children in grades K-3 attending nearby neighborhood public and private schools with after school childcare. In addition to assistance with homework assignments, we offer academic enrichment, french language immersion class, arts & crafts, dance and movement, a computer learning center, games and play for our participating students.
All students who attend our after school are encouraged and expected to participate in all of the center parties, celebrations, and special events. After School Program hours are 3:00 pm to 6:30 pm. On days when the public and private schools have ½ days, we pick up and take care of the after school students that attend our program. Students who attend our after school program must submit a current application, medical form and an application for Free and Reduced Priced Meals.