Schools for 4 year olds: Preschool Programs for Ages 3

Calling All 4-Year-Olds: LAUSD’s Pre-K Classes Are Ready

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The Los Angeles Unified School District is growing its free pre-K program.

Calling All 4-Year-Olds: LAUSD’s Pre-K Classes Are Ready

Every child who turns 4 on or after September 1 can enroll in transitional kindergarten at the district’s elementary schools next school year.

LAUSD is expanding its program well ahead of a state mandate to open public school preschool to every 4-year-old by the 2025-26 school year.

“Why wait two years to empower students with early literacy, early numeracy [and] earlier socialization?“ said Superintendent Alberto Carvalho at a press conference Friday. “Why wait two years when we can do it now?”

The district aims to enroll 25,000 students in transitional kindergarten next school year. Right now there are about 14,000 students in the program across 317 school campuses.

LAUSD’s preschool expansion is years in the making. The school board voted in 2021 to create a plan for universal preschool by the time school started in 2024.

The district used state and one-time pandemic relief funding to equip new transitional kindergarten classrooms with 4-year-old-sized furniture, books, and other learning materials. Each classroom is staffed by a certified teacher and at least one other educator.

Carvalho said the district had the capacity to add thousands of more students this year, but that pandemic-related fear and a lack of information contributed to families’ reluctance to enroll. Districts also face competition from private providers, who may offer programs that put more emphasis on play, or that offer smaller classes and extended hours of care.

Statewide enrollment has also lagged. This school year just over half of eligible families signed up for TK, according to the Legislative Analyst’s Office.

“We just have to find a way to get the word out to communities that this is a safe and trusted opportunity for our families,” said California State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond, who also attended Friday’s press conference.

The youngest of Anderne Kinney’s three children started at Van Deene Avenue Elementary’s transitional kindergarten program last year.

“I wanted her to be somewhere where she felt like her sisters were there to keep her safe,” Kinney said.

Anderne Kinney, a parent of a transitional kindergarten student at Van Deene Avenue Elementary School.

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Her daughter Lydia’s first educational experience was through Zoom, and later in-person preschool was inconsistent because of COVID-related shutdowns.

“When she got here, she was very closed, she did not necessarily believe that she could trust everybody,” Kinney said. Now Lydia has a best friend.

Kinney noticed her daughter’s academic skills are growing too. Lydia has started to identify letters and a few words, including her sisters’ names, and “doughnut.”

“This is the stepping stone,” Kinney said, “to understanding the concepts of reading, writing, and arithmetic.”

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  Our 3-year-old preschool program is designed for children who turn 3 by July 31st of the year they will begin preschool.   Classes meet Tuesday and Thursday mornings. 

    

  Our 4-year-old pre-kindergarten program is designed for children who turn 4 by July 31st of the year they will begin pre-kindergarten.  Classes meet Monday-Thursday in the afternoon.

   

  Full-day preschool classrooms are located in each PK-2 building.  Students attend Monday through Friday and follow the normal schedule for PK-2 buildings.  Students are placed by attendance area in their home school.  

   

  Preschool at Little Creek is a unique program that provides an outdoor learning experience for children one day each week.  Students enrolling in this program would attend class 2 mornings per week (3-year-olds) or 3 mornings per week (4-year-olds) at Parker Road with one of those days being outdoors (weather permitting) at Little Creek.  Transportation is not included and would need to be provided by the parent.  The routine and schedule at Little Creek would be consistent with daily class routines and schedules.   Children will engage in centers and exploration, small and large group activities, music and movement, story time and snack.  In addition, children will go on explorations and hikes while at Little Creek.  Children enrolling in the Little Creek Program at Parker Road would also receive home visits by your child’s teacher as a part of our Parents as Teachers Program.  

   

                            

   

   

     

   

   

   

   

  To enroll in a full-day preschool classroom, students must be independent when using the restroom and able to communicate toileting needs.   

    

  Creative Curriculum and Teaching Strategies GOLD is implemented in all classrooms.  Creative Curriculum and GOLD align tightly to the Missouri Early Learning Goals that have been established by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE).  To find out more information about the Missouri Pre-K Standards, visit their website at DESE-Missouri Early Learning Standards.   To learn more about how Teaching Strategies GOLD aligns with the Missouri Early Learning Goals, click Missouri Early Learning Goals and GOLD Alignment.

   

   

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  Parents as Teachers

  An important part of the Ferguson-Florissant preschool and pre-kindergarten program is the regular personal visit with the teacher or Parent Educator, parent, and child.  Parents often tell us that the personal visits are their favorite part of the program.  These one-hour visits occur approximately every five weeks, and can be scheduled during the day or, if needed, early evening.  Parent Educators talk with parents about their child’s development and parenting issues.  Everyone does an activity together, learning about how children work in school.  In very special situations, these personal visits can occur in the school if no possible home arrangement can be made.

  To learn more about the Parents as Teachers program, contact our Parents as Teachers office at 314-824-2077.   

  It is very important that all appointments for personal visits be honored.  This is one of the things that makes this program so successful in helping children be ready for kindergarten.  Teachers and parent educators have very busy schedules and appreciate being called if someone is sick and a personal visit must be missed.  Parents’ ongoing commitment to the full program is very important for children’s success.

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  Your child will receive a developmental screening as a part of the enrollment process for preschool.  All students must have a completed screening prior to enrolling in one of our Early Childhood preschool programs.   

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  Students are placed in a class location based on their home address.  All students are placed on a waitlist after receiving a free developmental screening.  Students are assigned to classrooms as space becomes available.   For more information, you may contact our office at 314-824-2074, or send an email to [email protected].

Activities for children 4 years old: what will be useful

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Three years before school, the child can already actively learn and begin to prepare for admission to the first grade. And at this age, it is important to pay great attention to the development of his oral speech and acquaintance with writing.

The development center “Pallada” has several programs and types of developmental activities for children 4-5 years old.

Get to Know is the Pallada Center’s developmental program for children aged 4-5 and is aimed at getting them ready for school. On the program, children develop competent and beautiful speech, work with a speech therapist to correct sound pronunciation and diction, get acquainted with mathematics and the world around them, express themselves in creativity and learn to communicate with each other.

In the “Know-ki” classes, children develop thinking and memory, intelligence and imagination. They learn to read, write and count, develop logical and spatial thinking, reveal their abilities and talents, learn to apply them.

“Know-ka” is a complex version of developmental activities for a child of 4 years old. This is an evening program, so it can be combined with a visit to a kindergarten for additional development.

Speech therapy classes for children 4 years old

Speech therapist of our center works with children 4-5 years old both individually and in groups, as well as within the school development program. In addition, we conduct interesting speech therapy classes for children 4-5 years old on the program “Beautiful speech” . In the process of learning from a speech therapist, the child develops not only the speech apparatus, but also imagination, fine motor skills, learns to communicate with other children, speak to the audience and answer questions. We conduct classes in a playful way so that the child does not lose attention and interest in the process. So he progresses even faster.

Classes for children 4-5 years old as part of a kindergarten visit

We use all training programs and methods of developing classes in the same volume in Kindergarten “Palladinki” . For children of 4 years old in our kindergarten, the program is aimed at preparing for school, and at staging speech, and at general development. In addition, the kindergarten is a place where children make friends with each other and join society. Therefore, by the time they enter the 1st grade, their fear of a new team and separation from their parents for the duration of classes decreases or completely disappears. Kindergarten teaches the child independence under the strict supervision of adults.

Child development at 4 years old: creative activities

The creative development of the child and the disclosure of his talents is another area that should be given great attention at an early age. In Pallada, we work with children in creative studios: they draw, sculpt and make applications, dance, engage in Lego construction, learn to play chess and all kinds of educational games.

Classes with a child at 4 years old at home

Home educational games and activities with a child of 4-5 years old are also an important part of his general preparation. We have collected some of the most interesting and productive exercises for homework with a child.

– You can use materials that are freely available on the Internet. For example, for the development of speech, you can invite the child to compose a story based on images.

First, think over the plot on your own, and then guide the child at the moment of his narration, pronounce new words.

– Mathematical thinking and logic are well developed by activities of this type:

Circle the image by numbers, find in paired pictures or match the number with the number of objects depicted, etc. :

In addition, it is recommended to actively develop fine motor skills in the child. For example, ask to sort and sort grains of different types.

Come to our program “Get to Know” and “Beautiful Speech” and develop with us.

Additional education of the New School

ADDITIONAL EDUCATION CENTER
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Open to everyone: preschoolers, students of any school, parents and teachers

Center for Continuing Education
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Open to everyone: preschoolers, students of any school, parents and teachers

Additional education at the New School is:

respectful, caring attitude towards students as the basis of our approach;

resourceful and enthusiastic teachers who are interesting for children;

not only walls, but first of all people – you feel comfortable at the entrance, where you communicate with a security officer, and at a lesson with a teacher, and after a lesson, when you can stay and play ping-pong with an employee or student schools;

developing educational environment in a new building built to meet modern requirements;

safe, protected area;

a place where they can see the child’s talents and find an approach to him;

free trial classes;

place of safe trial and error — the teacher will always give detailed feedback;

a delicious canteen where they do not heat up the semi-finished products they bring, but cook according to the recipes of their chef.