Key Center Introduces New Classes
Key Center is introducing two new classes during the 2013-14 school year to help students expand knowledge of their surroundings. Passport to Adventure will offer students the opportunity to become educated travelers. In an effort to learn about different countries, students will research specific travel destinations, including history, culture, famous people and events, and current events in each country. Classes will learn about famous and historical landmarks and experience aspects of each country’s music, food, and art. Also new is My Class, a course designed to strengthen students’ social skills while enhancing peer relations; encouraging self-management; and increasing academic, compliance, and assertion skills. Students will learn about personal development and care, healthy eating, and self-advocacy; living at home and leisure activities; how to handle money; the jobs done by community helpers; and job and career exploration. The class is designed to help them learn more about their world by exploring weather, nature, current events, and holidays. Students will participate in social skills inventories and self assessments at the beginning and end of the course to help measure progress.
Prevent Bicycle Thefts
Fairfax County police warn residents to take precautions to protect their bicycles from thieves. Crime analysts report an approximately 36-percent increase in the number of stolen bicycles over last year at this time.
Many bikes are taken when residents leave their garage doors open. Crime-prevention officers suggest bicycle owners take the following precautions to help prevent becoming victims: close garage doors; buy a hardened-steel U-lock; don’t leave bicycles outside for days or nights on end; consider installing motion-sensor lights or alarms on the property; and photograph the bike and record its serial number to aid recovery if it’s stolen.
Bikes may also be registered on the National Bike Registry at http://www.nationalbikeregistry.com/. Stolen bikes may be reported online at https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/police/crs/.