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Voluntary Pre-Kindergarten (VPK) – Waterset

VPK – Thoughtfully designed to prepare your child for success in Kindergarten and beyond

Our VPK Program sets your child up for success for Kindergarten and beyond. As your child is preparing for the excitement of starting school, we provide them with a foundation of fun, learning and development that will benefit them for the rest of their lives! The sounds of children laughing and playing are the sounds of children learning at Kids ‘R’ Kids.

Visit the ELCHC Website to obtain your child’s certificate of eligibility.  Bring that into our school to secure your child’s spot in our program. Hurry… spots fill fast!

We offer two program types:

• Part Time – 3 hours per day, 5 days per week.  This is a FREE program for all eligible students
• Full Time – Free VPK plus wrap-around full day care.

The Voluntary Prekindergarten Program (VPK) was implemented in 2002 in order to give ALL of Florida’s 4-year-olds access to a quality prekindergarten experience.

The VPK program is FREE to families and does not have any income requirements or restrictions.

Our accredited program ensures that every child receives an accelerated foundation for elementary school.

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What we Provide Our Active Learners

• Academic Introductions — These are group learning sessions where students will be introduced to the subject matter they are learning that day
• Independent Exercises — As your child is growing older, they will begin to explore the world around them independently. We provide plenty of opportunities for the children in our program to explore subjects, concepts, and ideas on their own to further develop their independent thinking skills
• Large and Small Group Activities — Along with independent learning, we encourage the children in our programs to work together. We have created small and large group stations where children will learn to cooperate with each other to solve problems and investigate new ideas and materials. Our small group stations focus on close engagement with peers while our large group activities focus on a community approach to learning
• Realistic Application — In each educational experience, children will learn to apply thought, imagination and creativity to real life situations and problems
• Center Opportunities:
  1. Language and Literacy Center helps children build their language skills
  2. Art Center presents free-choice art experiences that develop skills and imagination
  3. Construction Center develops spatial awareness through stacking, sorting, building, and recreating
  4. Dramatic Play Center encourages individual and group role play activities with realistic and imaginary props
  5. Math Center lets children apply math skills with a variety of materials and strategies
  6. Reading Center promotes independent reading and a love of books
  7. Science/Sensory Center allows children to experiment with materials
  8. Writing Center encourages beginning letter formation through a variety of materials and activities

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With mind, body and developmental skills growing at a rapid pace, your child is excited to learn more! Our program is designed to keep up with your child’s boundless need to absorb information and develop new skills. We provide your child with the environment, nutrition, safety, and tools they need to keep their active minds growing and learning.

Knowing your child is safe is crucial to your peace of mind

Safety

• Clean Classrooms: Include a personal place for your child’s belongings, organized learning centers, disinfected toys and play areas, and child-sized sinks for washing hands
• Certified Teachers in: Infant/Child and Adult CPR, and First Aid
• Glass Walls: Unlike typical day care centers or childcare providers, our classrooms feature tempered glass walls for maximum visibility and safety. This promotes an open, bright atmosphere, as well as a clean environment
• Safety Guard on Door Hinges: Our doors are padded at the hinges so that little fingers don’t get pinched when doors are opened and closed between classrooms
• Regular Drills for: Tornado, fire, hurricane and school lock-down

Secure environments provide additional monitoring

Security

• Electronic Security: Coded entry so only authorized visitors may enter the facility
• Hiring Process: All staff undergo extensive state-mandated background checks
• Front Desk: Our front desk is always staffed so that a watchful eye is supervising the facility, ensuring authorized entries only
• Security Cameras: Every classroom in our facility has security cameras that are monitored at the front desk. The owners and staff can easily observe classroom activities throughout each day. Families can login to a secure, password-protected website to check in on their child periodically (Sorry, Watch Me Grow Camera Access not available for Part Time VPK families)

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Proper nutrition serves as fuel for growing bodies AND minds

Meals

• Children eat all meals together using family-style seating in our kid-friendly café
• Teachers monitor all eating times
• Meals are prepared in our commercial-grade kitchen, which is kept separated from the classrooms
• Each day, our in-house chef prepares nutritious meals that exceed USDA guidelines
• All allergies are documented and kept in the front office with administrators
• Our school is a nut-free zone

Our programs emphasize the development of every aspect of rapidly growing Pre-K students through our whole-child approach! We facilitate Brain/Cognitive, Social, Emotional, Physical and Behavioral Development, while aiding in the enhancement of communication, language and literacy skills.

Experiential learning expands your child’s mind infinitely

Brain & Cognitive Development

At the successful conclusion of our VPK Program, your child will:

• Understand and describe relationships using quantity and number; and communicate about distance, weight, and dimensions
•  Sort, order, classify and create patterns
• Explore spatial relationships; understand shape concepts; and use mathematical problem solving
• Demonstrate scientific inquiry skills and communicate scientific ideas clearly
• Demonstrate understanding of family, and their own culture and ethnicity, geography, and community economics
• Participate in dance, visual arts, voice and drama while exploring the use of instruments and objects to express creativity
• Demonstrate awareness of cause and effect; use prior knowledge to build new knowledge; demonstrate problem-solving skills

Lasting friendships are formed daily

Social & Emotional Development

With the aid of our highly skilled teachers, your child will:

• Develop self-awareness
• Engage in self-expression
• Demonstrate strategies for reasoning and problem-solving
• Increase capacity for self-control
• Develop relationships with adults
• Develop relationships with peers

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Playtime develops a healthy attitude towards wellness

Physical Development

Through a blend of engaging activities both inside and outside of the classroom, your preschooler will:

• Practice safe, healthy habits
• Participate in activities related to nutrition
• Demonstrate an awareness of the body in space and its relationship to objects in space
• Use senses to explore the environment and process information
• Demonstrate gross motor skills
• Demonstrate fine motor skills

Engaging activities encourage imaginations to flourish

Behavioral Development

Before moving on to Kindergarten, we’ll ensure that your child:

• Demonstrates initiative and self-direction
• Demonstrates interest and curiosity
• Sustains attention to a specific activity and demonstrates persistence
• Engages in a progression of individualized and imaginative play
• Demonstrates a cooperative and flexible approach to play

The art of expression is vital to your child’s development

Communication, Language & Literacy

By the successful conclusion of our VPK Program, your child will:

• Listen to conversations for a variety of purposes and demonstrate comprehension
• Acquire vocabulary introduced in conversations, activities, stories, and/or books
• Use nonverbal communication for a variety of purposes
• Use increasingly complex spoken language; Demonstrate increasing knowledge of the alphabet
• Acquire meaning from a variety of materials read aloud; Develop early phonological awareness
• Demonstrate awareness of print concepts; Use writing for a variety of purposes

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Voluntary Prekindergarten – VPK | Polk County Public Schools

Submit an Online Application for a Preschool Program

Application process open for Summer 2022 VPK and for Preschool Programs for the 2022-2023 School Year.

VPK/Title 1 PK Application

When completing the application, copies of the following documents must be uploaded.

• Florida Certificate of Eligibility VPK – signed and dated

• • Need to apply for a VPK Certificate of Eligibility? Click here: Family Portal: Login (floridaearlylearning.com)

• Official Birth Certificate (NOT a hospital record)
• Photo ID of enrolling parent
• 2 proofs of address

Applications and documentation will not be accepted in person or by mail. Please use the secured portal. 

VPK/Title 1 PK Online Application

Head Start Application

Head Start programs deliver services to children and families in core areas of early learning, health, and family well-being while engaging parents as partners every step of the way. Head Start achieves this through an emphasis in early childhood development education, family and community partnerships, and health services.   Learn more about Head Start and its program qualifications by visiting polkschoolsfl.com/headstart.

Head Start Application (English)

Applicación de Head Start (Español)

Individual schools cannot accept applications. For information on space availability, additional questions, and to submit the completed applications contact:

PCPS PRESCHOOL PROGRAMS – (863) 648-3051

VPK Locations

School	Address	City & Zip	Type
Spessard L. Holland Elementary	2342 EF Griffin Rd.	Bartow 33830	Full school day
Bella Citta Elementary	201 Bella Citta Blvd.	Davenport 33837	Full school day
Davenport School of Arts	4751 N. CR 547	Davenport 33837	Full school day
Horizons Elementary	1700 Forest Lake Dr.	Davenport 33837	Full school day
Highland City Elementary	5355 9th Street SE	Highland City 33846	Full school day
Lake Alfred Elementary	550 E. Cummings St.	Lake Alfred 33850	Full school day
Carlton Palmore Elementary	3725 Cleveland Heights Blvd.	Lakeland 33803	Full school day
Dr. N.E. Roberts Elementary	6600 Green Rd.	Lakeland 33810	Full & part day
Highlands Grove Elementary	4510 Lakeland Highlands Rd.	Lakeland 33813	Full & part day
North Lakeland Elementary School of Choice	410 W. Robson St.	Lakeland 33805	Full school day
R Bruce Wagner Elementary	5500 Yates Rd.	Lakeland 33811	Full school day
R. Clem Churchwell Elementary	8201 Park Byrd Rd.	Lakeland 33810	Full school day
Rochelle School of Arts	1501 Martin L King Jr. Ave.	Lakeland 33805	Full school day
Scott Lake Elementary	1140 E. County Rd. 540A	Lakeland 33813	Full school day
Southwest Elementary	2650 Southwest Ave.	Lakeland 33803	Full school day
Valleyview Elementary	2900 E. County Rd. 540A	Lakeland 33813	Full & Part day
Winston Elementary	3415 Swindell Road, Lakeland, FL 33810	Lakeland 33810
Willow Oak School	4815 Bailey Road	Mulberry 33860	Full school day
Laurel Elementary	1851 Laurel Ave.	Poinciana 34759	AM or PM
Chain of Lakes Elementary	7001 State Road 653	Winter Haven 33884	Full & part day
Frank E. Brigham Academy	601 Avenue C, SE	Winter Haven 33880	Full school day
Jewett School of Arts	2250 8th Street, NE	Winter Haven 33881	Full school day

For address information regarding each school, visit our School Listings page.

Rebar cutting machine VPK Р-42 СР014232 in Moscow

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Reinforcement cutting machine VPK R-42 СР014232 is designed for cutting rebar and carbon steel bars. The equipment is widely used during the production of reinforced concrete structures. The powerful engine transmits rotation to the crankshaft and connecting rod through the flywheel and gearbox. Removable transport wheels make it easy to move the machine within the working area.

Equipment :

• Machine.
• Knives (stationary and mobile).
• Hex key.
• Gear oil.
• Instruction.
• Packaging.

Packaged goods parameters:

• Weight, kg: 410.00
• Length, mm: 1360
• Width, mm: 560
• Height, mm: 750

Benefits of :

• VPK P-42 CP014232 provides high cutting accuracy.
• Ability to cut 2-3 rebars at the same time.
• Cutting hot rolled steel bars and helical steel.
• The gear system has 3 transmission pairs and is in an oil “bath”.
• RCD motor protection system.
• Compact, vandal-resistant housing.
• Eye bolts for crane transport.
• Wheels can be removed for stationary use.
• High strength knife with 8 cutting edges (square).
• Protective screen for working area.
• Cutting rebar class A-I (A240) with a diameter of 42 mm.
• Cutting rebar class A-III (A400) with a diameter of 36 mm.
• Cutting rebar class A-500C with a diameter of 32 mm.

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What is the military-industrial complex really? | The world around us

One of the inappropriate words used today is the abbreviation “VPK”. This is such a “worn out” word that today few people remember what the meaning of the term should really be.

Definition of the term “VPK”

The Russian abbreviation “VPK” appeared in the USSR. It has two completely different and quite clear meanings:

1. Military Industrial Commission.
2. Military-industrial complex. Russian translation of an American term applied to the United States.

Assembling American B-29 bombers at a plant in Seattle
Photo: waralbum.ru

Military Industrial Commission and the functioning of the military industry and determined the policy in the field of development and production of types of weapons and other types of material and technical support for the Armed Forces of the USSR.

The first serial fighter LaGG-3 in the assembly shop of the Taganrog aircraft plant No. 31

Photo: waralbum.ru

The Military-Industrial Commission of the Russian Federation (MIC of Russia) was established in 1999, since 2014 it reports directly to the President of the Russian Federation.

American military-industrial complex

The term “Military-industrial complex” (MIC) is the Russian translation of the English-language “Military-industrial complex”.

This phrase was introduced into wide use by US President D. Eisenhower in his farewell speech in early 1961. It meant a powerful merging of the US military state structures with the military and aviation-missile industries, which, as is known, are in private hands in this country. That is, this merging is nothing but a permanent large-scale corruption conspiracy. Eisenhower expressed concern about the growing negative impact of the military-industrial complex on the American state and society as a whole.

USSR poster. Warmongers (detail)
Photo: Public domain

The fact is that the military-industrial complex serves the interests of arms manufacturers and corrupt government officials. It is the great evil of American society, giving rise to phenomena that not only do not correspond to the interests of the American people and state, but also bring great harm:

1. The concepts of advanced weapons do not quite meet the real requirements of the armed forces.
2. The choice of contractors for military government orders is very limited and largely dictated by corrupt collusion.
3. The amounts allocated by the state for the creation and purchase of weapons are incommensurably higher than the real costs of industrial corporations. In addition, there is no strict reporting on the spending of military budget funds (this is what we call “spending funds” today).
4. The design quality and manufacturing quality of weapons purchased by the state do not meet modern requirements.
5. The military-industrial complex influences US foreign policy, being a catalyst for unleashing hostilities around the world.

These phenomena are still progressing, although they have already reached colossal proportions.

The functioning of this completely formed extremely inefficient corrupt military-industrial monster is well shown in the American film “Pentagon Wars” in 1998 about the creation of the Bradley infantry fighting vehicle.

The “expletive” expression “military-industrial complex” was picked up by Soviet ideological propaganda and was widely used until the collapse of the Soviet system. It has been applied to the United States and sometimes to other advanced capitalist (“imperialist”) countries.

Domestic military-industrial complex

In view of the foregoing, it is clear that the military-industrial complex is the product of a certain economic system, a certain state system, with the addition of the specific specifics of a certain country. Therefore, this concept could not be used in relation to the USSR.

Despite this obvious fact, for some time now it has been actively introduced into domestic use.

The anti-Soviet political propaganda launched in the perestroika Soviet Union claimed that we also have a military-industrial complex, only much more significant, to which all life in the state is subordinated.

After the collapse of the Soviet system, the concept of “military-industrial complex” began to be misused, calling it simply the national military industry of any country.

Conclusion

The term “military-industrial complex” (MIC) originated in the United States and refers to a close mutually beneficial alliance between private industrialists and military government officials.

In the post-Soviet space, this concept began to be used for other purposes: the military-industrial complex began to be called only the national military industry of any country in the world.