Pre k for 3 year olds: Preschool Programs for Ages 3
Part-Day Preschool Program – San Diego Unified School District
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SAN DIEGO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT – PART-DAY PRESCHOOL PROGRAM
San Diego
Unified School District offers a State-subsidized Early Learning program
(Part-Day and Extended-Day) for 3 and 4-year old children who qualify. Family
income must fall within the State income ceiling guidelines according to family
size in order to qualify.
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ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS |
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EARLY LEARNING OPTIONS |
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Eligibility is determined by the following State factors:
Age Requirements Income CPS/At Risk (Must provide letter/document from caseworker) Homeless (Must provide letter or referral from agency or self-declaration of situation)
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Part-Day Early Learning Program.
Extended-Day Early Learning Program. This program is available to 3 and 4-year old children for 6 hours a day, Monday to Friday, and this is offered at Central Elementary only.
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REQUIRED DOCUMENTS |
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SCHOOL SITES AND MAP |
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All documents that are required must be uploaded to the Online Scribbles Application in order to complete the enrollment process.
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The list of Early Learning school sites including hours of operation, program offerings and map are available at the following links:
List of Part-Day and Extended-Day Early Learning Sites 2022-2023
Map of Early Learning School Sites 2022-2023
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ECSE – Early Childhood Special Education |
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PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS |
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For Special Education inquiries including a request for assessment, please visit the San Diego Unified School District – Early Childhood Special Education Department’s website at this link: Early Childhood Special Education (ECSE) Services.
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Early Learning classrooms provide age and developmentally appropriate conditions for our youngest learners.
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APPLICATION FOR SCHOOL YEAR 2022-2023 |
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NOTICE OF ACTION (NOA) |
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We accept Early Learning Applications until May 15, 2023 for school year 2022-2023.
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Acceptance into the Early Learning Program is confirmed through Notice of Action sent to parents/guardian via email within 30 days.
If you received a Notice of Action but are no longer interested (e.g., relocation, private school, etc.), please notify our office via email at [email protected].
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EARLY LEARNING CONTACT INFORMATION
Phone: (619)
260-2410
Email:
[email protected]
Hours:
Monday to Friday, from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Palmetto Pre-K – ECAC
What is Palmetto Pre-K?
Palmetto Pre-K is a statewide initiative to serve families of 3- and 4-year-old children and system navigators with a parent portal to check eligibility, locate and access the free public Pre-K programs in the state, support families through the transition to kindergarten and provide high-quality trainings to early childhood professionals serving 4-year-olds.
What are the three pillars of Palmetto Pre-K?
Palmetto Pre-K Online Portal
Families are able to go PalmettoPreK.org to determine their eligibility for free (publicly funded) preschool and locate high-quality educational programs in their neighborhoods and near their workplaces. The web tool matches eligible preschoolers with an appropriate program slot.
Palmetto Pre-K Transitions
Family-friendly, accessible guidance and navigational tools to help parents and caregivers successfully support their children’s transition from Pre-K to kindergarten. Efforts will include additions and new features on the Palmetto Pre-K and First Five SC websites. The SC PreK to Kindergarten Transition Plan: Family Engagement, was developed by the Palmetto Pre-K Transitions Workgroup, which is comprised of state early childhood system leaders, state agency personnel, educators, administrators, community and family advocates, and other stakeholders.
The Plan demonstrates the state’s collective capacity and commitment to ensure that every child and family has the resources needed to learn, flourish and thrive.
Palmetto Pre-K Jamboree
The top-flight professional development conference offered annually to preschool teachers and administrators throughout South Carolina. A planning committee with representatives from the four agencies that provide publicly funded preschool in South Carolina (Department of Education, First Steps 4K, Department of Social Services, and Head Start Collaboration Office) collaborate to plan the day. Past conferences have offered top-notched sessions such as, Conscious Discipline, ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) Awareness, Powerful Play, Meaningful Early Learning Literacy Experiences and SC Early Learning Standards in 4K.
How did it come about?
In a historic collaboration, the SC Department of Education, Head Start, SC First Steps and the SC Department of Social Services envisioned, created, developed and launched the portal.
The funding for the development process was provided through the Preschool Development Birth-5 Grant. The portal was officially launched in February 2020 and work continues to fully develop the site to include all locally funded Pre-K opportunities.
The public’s understanding of funding for the state’s preschool programs has often been misunderstood. The graphic above shows how South Carolina’s public preschool programs are funded.
Palmetto Pre-K Partner Agencies:
“The project described was supported by the Preschool Development Grant Birth through Five Initiative (PDG B-5), Grant Number 90TP0080-02-01, from the Office of Child Care, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.”
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Children perform tasks of an entertaining nature aimed at developing literacy, phonetic skills, knowledge in the field of mathematics and music. Classes under this program are held 3 hours a day, up to 5 times a week for 44 weeks. nine0016 
nine0016 Times… of life
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Basic vocabulary and 10 aphorisms about a person’s age.
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The theme of childhood, youth and old age will never lose its relevance: it inspires poets and prose writers, artists and filmmakers. The change of the “seasons” of a person, the transition from one pore of life to another is an exciting and mysterious process, unique for each of us.
Today we will learn basic vocabulary that describes different periods of a person’s life from birth to old age.
How old are you?
As we all know from school, when we first started learning English, the standard question about age is:
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– How old are you? |
– How old are you? |
And the answer looks like this:
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– I am __ (years old). |
– I am __ (years, years old). |
(The words years old and its equivalent years of age can be omitted).
If you don’t want to give your exact age, you can use general terms:
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– I am in my teens. |
– I am not yet 20. |
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– I am in my early / mid / late 20s (twenties)*. |
– I’m in my 20s / in my 20s / almost 30. |
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– I am in my twenties. |
– I am about 20. |
* thirties, forties, fifties etc.
(thirty, forty, fifty, etc.)
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Human age
Newborn – newborn
Newly born baby (under four weeks of age).
Infant / baby (first year of life)
A child of the first year of life who cannot walk or talk.
Toddler – child (2-3 years old)
Child, from the age when he begins to walk (about 12 months) up to 3 years.
Child (4-12 years of age)
Childhood is defined differently in different cultures: in English-speaking countries, childhood is defined as up to 13 years of age, after which adolescence begins. nine0007
Pre-teen / tween
Nearly ‘tween’: tween is short for in between .
Teenager – teenager, teenager (13-19 years old)
Easy to remember: teen is present only in English numerals from 13 to 19. nine0007
Young adult – young minor (18-24 years old), youth
It is difficult to define this age: earlier at 17-18 years old, “children” were already considered adults, but today growing up is a little slower. “Youth” refers to people aged 18 and up to “middle age”, but it is generally used to refer to young people between the ages of 18 and 24.
Middle-aged / over the hill
Human life expectancy is increasing, the definition of middle age is changing. Nowadays, the “middle age” is considered to be the age of 40-50 years. Expression over the hill , letters “beyond the hill” is a playful (and for some, rather offensive) definition of an elderly person.
Senior citizen – an elderly person (from 55-65 years old)
Depending on the cultural traditions of different countries, the age of old age can start from 55, or maybe from 65 years.
Elderly
Collective definition of the elderly.
And finally, we offer you 10 popular expressions about age, serious and not so, once heard from the lips of great people:
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. George Bernard Shaw |
Youth is wonderful. It’s just a crime to waste it on children. George Bernard Shaw |
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Middle age is youth without its levity, and age without decay. Daniel Defoe |
nine0126 Maturity is youth without its lightness and old age without fading.
Daniel Defoe |
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Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life. Friedrich Nietzsche |
Each philosophy is the philosophy of a certain period of life. Friedrich Nietzsche |
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Never too old to learn. nine0126 Latin proverb |
Live and learn. Latin proverb |
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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. Andrew Carnegie |
The older I get, the less attention I pay to what people say. Andrew Carnegie |
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We turn not older with years, but newer every day. Emily Dickinson |
We are not older than over the years, but newer than every day. Emily Dickinson |
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Regrets are the natural property of gray hairs. Charles Dickens |
nine0126 Regrets are part and parcel of gray hair.
Charles Dickens |
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Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative. Maurice Chevalier |
Old age is not so bad, if you keep in mind the alternative. Maurice Chevalier |
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Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. |
I look at what they are doing. 