Transitional Kindergarten
Offering the gift of time… when your 5 year old needs another year
What is a Transitional Kindergarten?
A Transitional Kindergarten (TK) program offers stimulating, academically challenging learning experiences that are more mature in scope than the four-year-old preschool program offers but are taught in a less structured, more relaxed environment than traditional kindergarten.
Goals of TK Program:
- Transitional Kindergarten is a "step-up" program with the primary goal of helping children who have reached the legal kindergarten age but are not developmentally ready for a highly structured kindergarten program. These children may not have had preschool experience.
- A quality Transitional Kindergarten serves as a "bridge program" for children who have completed preschool but are not ready to move on to kindergarten.
- Transitional kindergarten grants children the gift of time for developing greater independence, learning to communicate ideas, developing social skills, and exploring the world around them.
- Transitional kindergarten offers a challenging full-day academic curriculum taught in a less rigorously structured classroom than Traditional Kindergarten. Activities revolve around hands-on, activity-based programming.
- The Transitional Kindergarten would offer a classroom option rather than waiting another year, returning to preschool, or attending public school kindergarten for children whose Gesell test scores indicate a lack of readiness.
TK Plan for Bible Center
Two distinct TK programs are being suggested:
- TK Program: The TK program would operate with a teacher and an aide from 8:00 am-3:00 pm. It would follow the school calendar and be in session only when school was open. Lunches and snacks would be provided from home. The program would run during the regular school year. The cost would be roughly equivalent to the cost of kindergarten in the school.
- TK Plus Program: The TK Plus program would operate within the same classroom as the TK program, but would offer additional accommodations to parents who require extra care. The TK Plus would offer care from 7:00 am-6:00 pm, remain open on the preschool schedule, offer summer care, and provide lunches and snacks. The cost of the program would be the same as the preschool weekly rate.
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