#prekindergarten

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[isaacsapphire]

Research Reveals Long-Term Harm of State Pre-K Program

In this first-ever controlled study of public pre-K, the control group did best.

Interesting article, worth reading for anyone who has influence over the childcare/education choices for a child, or anyone who cares about what their tax dollars pay for and want some science based programs that will produce better results.

[stopnplay-blog]

After School Day Care

If you need somewhere safe and comfortable for your child to stay after that final bell rings, Stop N Play offers an after school day care to keep them out of trouble. Once school ends, your child will have the chance to remain in a structured environment with other children until it's time to go home. For more information about after school day care or our other child care services, contact Stop N Play.

https://federalwaydaycarecenter.com

[thosesmithchildren]

My Dirt Cheap adventures today lead to me buying 300 (yes, THREE HUNDRED) trick-or-great buckets and I spent a grand total of (wait for it)........... EIGHT DOLLARS!!!

I was originally going to grab buckets for 5 classrooms (myself, my sister, her friend) needing only like 100 buckets total, I originally grabbed like 120 for safe measure. Then I got to thinking....

Aiden’s school is small, they teach ONLY pre-k and kindergarten and have not even 120 students. This is my 3rd year with them and they try so hard to do fun things for the kids, but often turn outs aren’t great or they can’t do things at all because of not enough volunteer participation (they’ve even canceled events bc of it 😕) and they’ll be doing a big fall event during school on Halloween day for the kids. Trick-or-treat buckets would be PERFECT for them, its literally nothing but 4 and 5 year olds.😂🖤

So, here I am, with 299 trick-or-treat buckets (I overlooked some broken ones, but that’s why you always buy extra!) for my 5 year old’s entire school (and then some) and what sounded like really excited office staff.😂

I’d also like to do a shout out to the lady patiently waiting in line behind me, as we counted out my 1st trip of buckets. I forgot my wallet in the car and she paid for 140 of these buckets!! I can guarantee a whole horde of small children thank you!!🖤🖤🖤🖤

(They’re doing daily Halloween deals on dollar store Halloween items. Thursdays are 20/$1, which is how I got so many!)

[theprettiestgirlattheparty]

90% of being a pre-k teacher is saying something to one of the kids and immediately rephrasing it slightly in your head for it to have been better for the child

[laughingprek]

Beginning of the year

Every year at this time as I’m lesson planning for the beginning of the school year, I always start to feel like I don’t actually know what I'm doing and have been faking it the last 10 years.

[yournintendogsaredead]

And what my kids teach me.

[thosesmithchildren]

DON’T👏🏻SLEEP👏🏻ON👏🏻DOLLAR👏🏻TREE👏🏻 Dollar Tree is an awesome place for educational supplies for at home, and items to make activities! Flash cards (they also had colors, shapes, multiplication, division) put into a photo book makes for great dry-erase workbooks. The flash cards came in packs of 52 and if you put a card in each side of a page, plus one on the inside of each cover, it holds 50. I made 1 book for each and cut the front of the boxes out, sticking them in the cover so I can easily tell which is which. HUGE assortment of PreK-2nd/3rd grade work books (probably higher and I just didn’t notice bc I wasn’t looking for those) for math, spelling, phonics, sight words, and reward stickers! The entire book/educational section is filled with great items to make your own little set up of at-home school work. I’d have gotten WAY more, but I also got a bunch of other items for other hacks/crafts. Which I will obviously be sharing at some point, as well.