Kindergarten is a big step for both child and parent. Taking a few strategic actions will help ease the transition and help you best prepare your preschooler for “the big K.” 1. Teach concepts. While ...

Perhaps they had attended preschool, but if they did, they almost certainly didn’t have any summer tutoring to make sure they really were ready for kindergarten. Today, many children go to two or ...

The 4- and 5-year-old students in teacher Sarah Odom’s class are loudly chiming out numbers as she shows them the numerals on a series of flash cards. The children can recognize figures as high as 27 ...

When the school year began, Jana Newell’s assessments of the 20 children in her class showed that just four had the skills necessary for the busy pace of kindergarten at Sunnymede Elementary School in ...

Lori Kraut, an Adams Elementary School kindergarten teacher, talks with Marin Tarnowski, 4, about what she's most looking to in kindergarten. Tarnowski is one of Kraut's 44 students whose home she ...

So your kid is turning five this year? That means they, along with more than 38,000 kids in B.C., will be starting ...

When other kids their age started kindergarten last month, 5-year-old Caitlin and Jackson Pilisuk just waited on the sidelines. The Oakland twins were eligible, but their parents and preschool ...

When Dylan and Matthew Goode bounded into the Score Educational Center in Alameda, Dylan, 6, asked for a turn with the ladybug-shaped computer mouse. And Matthew, 4, wanted to know when he could shoot ...

School is quickly approaching, and for many 5- and 6-year-olds it’s a whole new world — kindergarten. The big enchilada, real school, homework, larger classes, longer days, and crowded hallways. Many ...