Saturday, March 3, 2012

First work, then play after school; Trinity Institution offers free program in Albany to help children ages 5 through 12.(Capital Region)

Byline: JIMMY VIELKIND - Staff Writer

ALBANY - The boys wanted to play basketball, but first they had to do their homework.

Sitting at a table on the second floor of the Trinity Institution, they each explained their assignments.

"Tonight I'm putting my words into sentences," said Tyiquaveis McGill, a sixth-grader at the Thomas O'Brien Academy of Science and Technology, showing his spelling list.

"I'm learning about the biomes that animals and plants can live in," said Nizere Stephens, a fifth-grader at the North Albany Academy. He flipped the pages of his textbook to show each: from tundra to deciduous forest, which he struggled to …

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