Articles tagged:day care & preschool

Posted: Tue Jan 25 noon by Melissa Boehling
A sign of the times? More kids can use a Smartphone than tie their shoes

A recent article posted by Great Start for child care states that more children can use a smartphone than tie their shoes. Here is the article: http://www.seattlepi.com/lifestyle/434010_kids24.html. As I read it a small part of me was surprised and intrigued, but then, the more I read and thought about it, ...

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Posted: Tue Mar 2 9:11 a.m. by Anna Mae Trievel Community Contributor
Schedule of preschool open houses around Ann Arbor

It's time to start looking for preschools around Ann Arbor for the 2010-2011school year. Following are open house listings sorted by date. Some schools do not offer open houses, preferring to offer individual tours. Contact information for them can be found below the listings.Here are some things to consider when ...

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Posted: Sun Feb 7 12:54 p.m. by April Scarlett Community Contributor
Lifelong benefits of learning a second language young

Enough research has been done over a long enough period of time to show there is absolutely a significant life-long benefit for children who learn a second, or even third, language at a very young age. Universities like Oxford, Cornell and Cambridge have done intensive studies, and their conclusions are ...

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Posted: Tue Jan 19 10:27 p.m. by April Scarlett Community Contributor
Perry Preschool Project segment on NPR worth checking out

So, per usual, I was tuned in to NPR on Michigan Radio last night while driving my oldest son around in my car. This week they are broadcasting a Winter Documentary series, and Tuesday night's was called "Early Lessons", about how and why preschool or Pre-K education was started in ...

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Posted: Fri Jan 15 5 p.m. by Anna Mae Trievel Community Contributor

Believe it or not, now is the time to start considering preschools for the 2010-2011 school year. It is important to start looking now to know what your options are and to have the most options available to you. You can find a list of open houses in my previous ...

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Posted: Wed Jan 13 6:45 a.m. by Anna Mae Trievel Community Contributor

Amazingly it is time to start looking at preschools around Ann Arbor for the 2010-2011 school year. It is best to start your search early to have the most options available to you, as classes can fill up. Open houses are beginning later this week. The open house listings are ...

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Posted: Sun Dec 6 6:08 a.m. by Jen Eyer Director of Audience Engagement
Working through painful preschool goodbyes

As I dropped Wes off at preschool yesterday morning, he ran off to play with a friend and didn’t even glance back. I walked to my car elated by my first guilt-free drop-off. Thinking back to the three-week period when they had to peel him off me every morning, I ...

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Posted: Fri Sep 18 9:56 a.m. by Jen Eyer Director of Audience Engagement

As Perry Nursery School gears up to celebrate 75 years of providing affordable preschool to at-risk children, proposed state budget cuts are threatening the program's future. This week House Democrats agreed to adopt all $1.4 billion in cuts included in Senate GOP budget bills. The bills, among other things, would ...

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