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Finding a quality preschool is quite a challenge that most parents face.  Differentiating a quality preschool from a daycare center is also one of the main challenges that most parents face.

A quality preschool would:

• Develop self-identity of the child

* Develop a positive attitude of the child towards learning by experiencing success and by learning to deal with failure successfully

* Teach the children skills and give them practice in resourceful problem-solving and its corresponding benefits

* Make the students understand the unlimited potential of their own minds and their ability to build on what they have learned

* Develop the child’s mind for appreciation of peers, adults and community

* Help children develop creative expression through art, music, drama and their own unique forms of self-expression

* Teach children about their physical self through the development of fine and gross motor skills.

The main factors for choosing a quality preschools would be to consider whether the preschool provides  safe spaces for the children, whether they are comfortable and engaged in what they are doing, not easily distracted or wandering aimlessly; children feels happy, not distressed, bored or crying;  the teachers and other staff  are caring, sensitive (not harsh), responsive to children’s needs and requests, and involved in what the children are doing by helping children solve problems, accomplish projects and learn; time and space for active outdoor and indoor play as well as quiet time.

Parent Co-operative Preschools are run by the parents. In these schools there are various levels of participation available. You may choose to participate in the administration of the school by sitting on the board of directors or a committee. You can be in the class with your child once or twice a month. Or you can receive the newsletter and take advantage of evening social events with other parents. Research shows that parent involvement is a major factor in a child's success. The parents, who start participating with their children at the preschool or daycare level, continue to do so through elementary and high school.

Location:

Do you want your child to attend a preschool near your home or workplace? At this age, your child will have to be picked up and dropped off by you or another designated adult, so location is important.

Cost:

The cost of preschool varies greatly between schools. There are preschools that have costs subsidized by the state for low income families, preschools that charge monthly tuition, and others that charge tuition annually. If you have a budget for preschool costs, this will help narrow your options. If you cannot afford preschool for your child but do not qualify for state subsidized preschools, find out if there are preschools that offer financial aid. Some preschools offer financial aid or have a list of scholarships or grants for preschool age children.

Curriculum:

It is important to know what your child will be learning in school. Find out from different preschools what their curriculum is. There are some preschools that are really just day care centers, that do not foster academic growth and then there are other preschools that focus on preparing your child for kindergarten. If it is important to you that your child will learn their alphabet, learn how to write and read, learn basic math skills, then find out what your child will learn at a certain preschool.

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What kinds of things should my child know by age four?

I decided not to put my three year old in preschool this year (we are trying to resolve her issue with encopresis). I plan to put her in next year. What kinds of things should she be learning right now. I'm trying to come up with some lesson plans that I can do with her at home a couple days a week. We do a craft almost everyday (she loves to do them), we're working on cutting skills with safety scissors, working on number and alphabet recognition and we are practicing tracing. I also do felt board stories with her. I'm trying to keep it fun.

My 3-year-old learns alphabet recognition and phonics (he knows what the letters all "say"), numbers, a Bible verse and story per week (it's a Christian school), then they have two-week themes. He'll learn about the ocean, what kind of fish live in the ocean, etc. The next week, he learns about Autumn (the changing colors of the leaves - complete with appropriate crafts to solidify the point - how it gets colder and darker earlier, what months are in Autumn, etc.). In December, he learns about Christmas (several weeks, covering Christmas trees one week, Christmas traditions one week, and the birth of baby Jesus one week).

He also is learning about weather and days, weeks, and months. Every day in circle time, they look out the window and put the magnets in their room up to show what's going on (there are magnets for sun, clouds, rain, thunderstorms, windy, hot, cold, snow, etc.) and then there are also magnets showing what you would wear for diffrent kinds of weather (so on a cold, rainy day, they would put the "cold" magnet and the "rain" magnet up, along with a "coat" and "umbrella"). Beside the weather board, there's a calander, and they go through "What month is it?" and "What day is it?"

Music is used in several different ways. Some songs (Father Abraham, Head Shoulders Knees and Toes, and the Hokey Pokey) encourage movement (and the latter two also reinforce knowledge of body parts). The Itsy Bitsy Spider, The Wheels on the Bus, and Little Bunny Foo-Foo work on fine motor skills, and The Wheels on the Bus also works on recognizing people (they include the bus driver, mommy, daddy and baby).

They work on various "science" projects (easy things like watching a bean sprout and grow) and some very basic math (he knows three math problems: 1+2=3, 2+2=4 and 1+3=4). The math problems are done VERY slowly, and it usually takes about two weeks of going over it before he really remembers what the answer is).

Games like "Freeze Dance" get them up and moving, and they think it's pretty hilarious to "freeze" in strange or awkward positions.

Three-years-old is a wonderful time to work on a second language, so they have "Spanish classes" once a week (they learn how to count to ten in Spanish, and words like water, bathroom, boy, girl, please and thank you, etc.) He's also learned a few simple signs for sign language ("thank you" "I love you" and "I'm hungry", for example). I don't know about the sign language, but in addition to what they're learning in school, for Christmas Santa is bringing an InteracTV game system with some games, including a Dora the Explorer one that works on Spanish vocabulary. There are all kinds of toys/books/games that feature Dora and most of them include Spanish.

Have storytime, of course, but work it in to your curriculum. For example, if you're learning about snow, find a children's book that is about snow (at different times of the year, Barnes and Noble have themed tables for children's books, so in December, it's easy to find books about Christmas, Hanukkah, snow, etc.) Work in projects/snacks to match the story. If you read "If You Give A Mouse a Cookie", work with her to make and decorate cookies (you roll out the dough, then let her use cookie cutters to get the cookies.). If "Green Eggs and Ham" is read for storytime, have green eggs and ham for lunch (concentrated green food coloring in scrambled eggs works well).

One game my son likes is to match colors and items. There's a computer game on pbskids.org (a GREAT site, both of my kids like it, just carefully monitor what she's doing on there) where Grover from Sesame Street is trying to pick out fruits and vegetables that match certain colors. So the child moves the purple eggplant to the purple bin, the orange carrots to the orange bin, etc. That gives him a good opportunity to work on his colors, but also to learn about various fruits and veggies (they explain a little detail about the produce).

Encourage pretend play, using a toy kitchen or something similar. Assuming your daughter has a baby doll, show her how to "take care of it". Provide dress-up clothes of all kinds ("Princess" stuff, but also firefighters and doctors and stuff).

I know that's a lot, but I hope some of it has given you some ideas. I think it's awesome that you're doing all that with her at home.

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