About School-Age Care

Staff are available to assist children with homework. Sites have comfortable reading corners and libraries stocked with high interest books that encourage independent reading.

Children participate in service learning projects through out the year. Service projects promote teamwork, leadership, a sense of community, and empathy.

Active outdoor play is a regular part of the before and after school schedule. Children have various opportunities to participate in individual and group sports and games, such as soccer, basketball, golf, roller blading, skate boarding, ice skating, sledding, and swimming. When the Minnesota weather demands indoor play, the school gym is offered for organized games, sports and activity.

Children have the opportunity to socialize with their peers and friends. Parents have described Discovery Club as their child’s neighborhood.

Learning and using social skills is a natural part of the Discovery Club day. Children learn how to make and keep friends; they have the opportunity to learn and practice conflict resolution skills including empathy, problem solving and emotional regulation.

Discovery Club’s behavior guidance philosophy focuses on mutual respect and the involvement of children in problem solving and taking responsibility for their own feelings and behavior.

Encourage social development by providing opportunities for sharing, taking turns, making friends, resolving conflicts, problem solving, helping others, recognition and acceptance by others, cooperative experiences, and building self-esteem.

Encourage emotional development through use of oral language to express thoughts and feelings, through experiencing rules and limits, kindness, justice and empathy, and recognizing and accepting emotions in others.  

Develop responsibility for one’s own actions in self-help, health, safety, and interpersonal areas and to  exercise independence when appropriate. 

Facilitate intellectual development by offering many kinds of materials and experiences that enrich and support the basic concepts and skills learned in school. Homework time and/or quiet reading time is scheduled on a regular basis. 

Encourage physical development of large motor skills through outdoor and indoor games and activities, as well as fine motor development through use of a wide variety of manipulative materials. 

 Encourage creative development by offering many kinds of materials and experiences in music, visual and dramatic arts, literature, and oral stories.