Houlton: SAD 29 extends pre-K
Bangor Daily News, April 6, 2007
(excerpts) Pre-kindergarten pupils are like "little sponges," anxious to absorb all of the information they can hold, said teacher Amanda Howe.
Now, officials in SAD 29 will take advantage of her analogy and the research behind it by extending the district’s pre-kindergarten program.
During a meeting earlier this week, the school board voted to approve a motion to modify the district’s program. Instead of four days a week, pupils will be in the classroom five days a week next year.
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"We need more time in the course of a day to get this done," Howe said. "We feel that an extra day would give us more time to help our children develop appropriate language and literacy skills, and we feel it would be more beneficial for preparing these students for kindergarten."
Howe said that teachers gauged how parents would feel about extending the pre-kindergarten week by sending out a survey. A vast majority of parents who responded said that they believed that a five-day week would be beneficial to their child’s education.
(excerpts) Pre-kindergarten pupils are like "little sponges," anxious to absorb all of the information they can hold, said teacher Amanda Howe.
Now, officials in SAD 29 will take advantage of her analogy and the research behind it by extending the district’s pre-kindergarten program.
During a meeting earlier this week, the school board voted to approve a motion to modify the district’s program. Instead of four days a week, pupils will be in the classroom five days a week next year.
...
"We need more time in the course of a day to get this done," Howe said. "We feel that an extra day would give us more time to help our children develop appropriate language and literacy skills, and we feel it would be more beneficial for preparing these students for kindergarten."
Howe said that teachers gauged how parents would feel about extending the pre-kindergarten week by sending out a survey. A vast majority of parents who responded said that they believed that a five-day week would be beneficial to their child’s education.
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