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I think so. Not just because I taught preschool for three years before having DS, but because I can see how much my own child benefits from it.
Here is an article I found that may give you some further insight to this debate. One we hear talked about all the time
for the article!
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my dd was all excited to get to go to prek in Jan. but now they wont let her go because my oldest dd pays for lunch.....I wanted her to go so she is ready when it comes to getting her lunch back to her table and standing inline ...just things like that...so now she is heart broken that she cant go.
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Originally Posted by TracyB
my dd was all excited to get to go to prek in Jan. but now they wont let her go because my oldest dd pays for lunch.....I wanted her to go so she is ready when it comes to getting her lunch back to her table and standing inline ...just things like that...so now she is heart broken that she cant go.
Why does having her sister buy lunch affect her going? That just sounds strange.
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Yes i do think going to preschool makes a child better equipped for school. In preschool they learn so much. They learn the academic stuff like ABCs, colors, counting and etc....but they also learn the social part of being in a group. Having to listen to someone other t han mom and dad and getting along well with other children. I think going to preschool will make the experience of Kindergarten so much easier and imo better.
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YES! When I volunteered in my son's kindergarten class, it was VERY obvious at the beginning of the year who had been to preschool and who had not. It wasn't just academics either. Things like listening to somebody besides mom and dad, standing in a line, taking turns at the bathrooms, simple things. Plus academics. . .
Did it ruin the other kids? No, they caught up by around January for the most part.
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I really think it does. My kids loved it. I even remember going when I was a kid and loved it. Around here most kids go to some kind of program. It can be head start or 4year old kindergarten. Lots of people pay for their kids to go. I know one lady who didn't send her son, and he did ok too. So I guess it is up to the family.
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I think so. Ds started Montessori when he was almost 3, over two years ago. He has learned SO much! He wasn't even 4 when he knew all his continents, and was telling me he wanted to go to Asia to see the 'big flower' (the biggest flower in the world' in Indonesia.
Grace and courtesy to me was (is) a really big thing they taught in montessori too. I honestly can't imagine not sending him to some sort of preschool. He definitely needed the social stimulation. As for the letters, colors, numbers, etc., I taught that to him before he even entered school. But for the social interaction, and getting used to going to school every day before K is really important to us.
Ds has been going 5 days a week since he was 4. Next year it's 2 days a week 9-12 and 3 days 9-3:15. I can't imagine him only going a few days/hours in preschool then having to pull full days three days a week, I'm so glad we have the opportunity to ease him into it.
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Yes, it definitely helps!!! And I don't think that academics are the big part. Like the article says, it just has to do with getting along with others, being able to follow the routine, listen to teacher, etc!!!!
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Originally Posted by Claire
YES! When I volunteered in my son's kindergarten class, it was VERY obvious at the beginning of the year who had been to preschool and who had not. It wasn't just academics either. Things like listening to somebody besides mom and dad, standing in a line, taking turns at the bathrooms, simple things. Plus academics. . .
Did it ruin the other kids? No, they caught up by around January for the most part.
Claire, you wrote exactly what my thoughts were. All of mine have gone...or ARE going! It is an expense that we give up other things for, in order to let our girls go.
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Originally Posted by Jodie
Why does having her sister buy lunch affect her going? That just sounds strange.
Good question......they dont get the money for the kid if they pay for lunch like they do with a child that qualifies for free lunch....they come up with a bunch of mumbo jumbo crap to tell you ....if I would have started her the beginning of the yr she would have been able to go...the school even thought that she was coming....we was just waiting on the 6 prek teachers in the county or what ever to get together and do the testing on my little one when I got a call from the teacher that said KC could not come to prek because we have to pay for my oldest dds lunch....I was really mad and said a few things aboa\ut a working class family always gets put on the back burning for everything......and they said something about a new person came on board the beginning of the yr and is really going stricktly by the books....I can see if the class was full but this class only has 11 kids in it and it is allowed to have 20 and the head of prek said they was thinking about cutting it down to 15 students...the lady over it all said she was going to look into it more for me and it has been a month and she has not called me back....so now I have to prepare myself all over again in Aug when she goes to K...lol...I had already prepared for her leaving and now got to go thru it again...lol