Male Sr. Mentors

Lady Sr. Mentors

Happy Holidays from Kidz Express!!

Dont forget to visit our official Kidz Express website
www.kidzexpress.org

and our facebook page which you can like above or visit at...
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kidz-Express/170317316318145

Kidz Express in 2010

Kidz Express Basketball Night

Rochell "Roro" becomes a Jr. Mentor

Roro began Kidz Express in 2001 at 5 years old. She has been apart of Kidz Express since then and earned her job as a Jr. Mentor now that she has just turned 14. Kidz Express would like to thank and congratulate Roro for her help and contribution to Kidz Express.

Kidz Express Haunted House Huge Success

A good 1 hr and a half of scared children walked through Kidz Express's haunted house at our building put together by the Kidz Express mentors. We'd like to thank everyone that helped out and made it a huge success. Lots of Scared kids and candy! What can get better!!

Man Man goofing around

Kidz Express Cafe NOW OPEN for business!!

The older girls open up Kidz Express Cafe to pass the time

Shamonte at Kidz Express

hi my name is shamonte and I come to kids express beacuse they care about your education and they give you food. You also play games like basket ball court pool table this is what we do. We also do our home work then we play and i dont like to see yall kids on the corner. Come to kids express they do some thing with yall lives. get of that corner and come to kids express.

Fall Program starts this Monday September 20th

Kidz Express staff is happy to welcome back the kids for a new year of Kidz Express. The fall program starts this monday September 20th.
The new schedule:

Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday -- 3:30 - 7:30 (snack and dinner will be served)
Wednesday and Friday -- 3:30- 6:00 (snack will be served)

Kidz Express staff is looking forward to a successful and fun-filled year

Shout

Getting to know the Mentors with Donny Baylock

Donny Baylock got involved with Kidz Express when he started coming his junior year of high school in 2007. He started volunteering his time as a mentor on saturday mornings and then worked the summer program. Donny has been working at Kidz Express ever since. He helps kids with their homework, loves to play knockout with the kids, and has started to teach a music class.

Today August 23,2010

This is the last week of the summer program for the kids.

We will be catching up this week by uploading videos and writing of the kids from throughout the summer and show all the fun things we did this summer.

Looking into the future: Kidz Express is teaming up with Junior Achievement to implement into our programming for the after School program

Diamonds in Chicago

Homeless Horror

Kidz Express productions presents: Homeless Horror

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q95XAooQsug

Its been some time so we have lots of catching up to do

Since our last post we have:

Made a Kidz Express movie ( soon to be uploaded on the blog)

The group "Diamonds" explored Chicago

Had plenty of fun playing games

Skyped with our friends from Quincy, IL

Kidz Express in Reverse

Kids took some footage from the past week of filming and turned it in reverse.

Kidz Express/Quincy group

Kidz Express would like to thank the Quincy group for coming down once again this year and showing us such a great time.
It is now looking like they will be back August 15th which the kids are very excited about!!

Darvon- Usher: gotta let it burn

Pictures of Kidz Express and Quincy Group

Pictures brought to you by Doug Low
http://www.pbase.com/dhlow/madison_park_take_three

Marissa and Tarayven photoshoot

Great Grades for Kidz Express kids

Tarayven and Julissa get A's and B's on Progress Report from Summer School

Dance Off!!- More fun with Quincy Group

Man Man and Ramarion show off their dance moves

Imani hanging with Quincy

I loved hanging with the quincy group because i get to do there hair, and we play fun games , and piggyback rides. I enjoyed all the games that we played with them, they were all fun! They were all nice people and hanging with all of them was amazing. I hope they come back soon because i want to do more great games with them. I miss them already!!

Kidz Express 6/28 - 7/1

Kidz Express would like to thank our visitors from Quincy, IL for everything they did this week for us at Kidz Express.

Pictures, and videos will be posted of the great activities dancing and fun the kids had with our guests.

Kidz Express dance class/ Quincy group perform "One Time"

Happy Birthday Tarayven

Happy Birthday to you!
Happy Birthday to you!
Happy Birthday to TARAYVEN!
Happy birthday to YOU!

Eric and Darvon riding the Roller Coaster

Eric and Darvon test out Photo Booth on Matthew's Mac Laptop

Flipping with Keelan

Keelan shows off flipping skills in the backyard of Kidz Express

The Sweet Life of Ukari

I am Ukari, I am 8 years old. My bestfriends are Marissa and Kiersha.I go to Goeger Lelend. My favorite subject in school is Math. I have a mom and a dad and three brothers. I have a grandmother and grandfather and one aunt. I love all of my family. My favorite thing to do at Kidz Express is Dance. I am apart of the dance class. My favorite song is One Love by Justin Beiber. My favorite sport is Basketball and i love playing it at Kidz Express.

Here at Kidz Express

Here at Kidz Express by Darvon and Eric

Man Man displaying his jump roping skills

Man Man back at it again showing off his jump roping talent.

Race Car Track

Man Man and his friends race around their cars through Kidz Express

My Life by Keelan

my name is keelan and I am 11 years old and I go to marconi school and my favorite colors are red and black. I Like to do flips and I Like to play pro streets: need for speed on my xbox 360. my favorite sports are basketball and football. my favorite food is chicken and my favorite restaurant is old country buffet. My hero is LeBron James. My favorite thing about Kidz Express is playing basketball during free time and going on the computers.