Program Highlights

FKO celebrates National Summer Learning Week, a time dedicated to elevating the importance of keeping kids learning, safe, and healthy every summer, ensuring they return to school in the fall ready to succeed in the year.

Thank you to our amazing partner, Boston Landmark Orchestra, for bringing your Musical Playground to FKO Everett! What an incredible opportunity it was for the children to learn from professional musicians how to play real instruments of the orchestra.

Today, children and staff in Winthrop participated in The Ten Thousand Flowers Project. Thank you to lifelong artist Tim Gibson for bringing together different communities to create one giant mural stretching over a mile long, filled with ten thousand colorful flowers. This massive mural will be split into hundreds of interconnecting parts like a giant […]

“I love my new backpack!,” says an FKO participant. “I can’t wait to show my dad, grandma, grandpa, aunt and uncle!” Last Thursday, 30 volunteers from Encore Boston Harbor spent the afternoon taking FKO children on the best back to school shopping spree! All 200 children attending FKO’s Lafayette School program in Everett received a brand-new […]

FKO joins the Winthrop Chamber of Commerce at another wonderful Family Day at the Beach! FKO was so proud to see all the Winthrop children and families join in on our effort to keep the beach clean.

What fun nights we had celebrating an amazing summer with children and families in Peabody! We are so proud of all the kids hard work this summer. In their project-based learning classes, children opened their own ice cream shop, designed a sports stadium, created cultural cookbooks, planned an end-of-summer field day, created a newspaper and […]

What a great summer it has been for the children of Winthrop! Children entering Kindergarten through 2nd grade completed two outstanding projects this summer and showcased them at a special family event last week. ‘The Art of Emotion’ helped children learn about their emotions and how to handle them in a healthy way. In ‘Pollution […]

To wrap up a wonderful summer at FKO’s Youth In Motion program in Revere, children, staff, and families gathered for an End of Summer BBQ!

Yesterday was a day of celebration! Across all FKO program sites, children, staff and families celebrated Lights On Afterschool!, a nationwide event recognizing the important role afterschool programs play in the lives of children, families and communities. Children made clay lightbulbs, puzzle piece lightbulbs and mason jar lanterns, decorated pumpkins and cookies, and expressed their […]

This past week, FKO distributed a total of 40,000 snacks to 2,857 children in our communities! FKO is incredibly proud to support the tireless efforts of our dedicated community food and nutrition partners by contributing nutritious snacks to complement their existing meal distribution. We are grateful to the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education […]

With the CDC recommending outdoor play, we put our creative hats on to ensure that rain or shine, kids enrolled in our Summer Program will be able to escape to an outdoor oasis for enrichment activities, a picnic lunch, or even their morning discussion circles! A special thanks to Backyard Tent Rental for their quick response in […]

Today is a great day! FKO welcomed children and families back to our programs for summer! Although we are in different locations, being together and having fun is what matters the most! A special thanks to our partners in Winthrop, Everett, Peabody, Revere and Chelsea, for working with FKO to make it possible! And a […]