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Participation in Pre-K Classes Can Prevent Learning Difficulties Later in Life.
Home » Early Learning » Importance of Pre-K Classes » Participation in Pre-K Classes Can Prevent Learning Difficulties Later in Life.Posted by Your Guide on March 15, 2006 5:35 PM
Participation in Preschool and Pre-K programs have been proven to related to high school graduation rates and college enrollment. The foundation provided in a strong early learning experience will serve the child throughout their formal education experiences.
Robert Fulghum wrote a book called, “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten.” In that book he outlines some of the really important things children need to learn very early in life to be able to function in an adult world. Some of the things he lists include:
• Share everything.
• Play fair.
• Don't hit people.
• Put things back where you found them.
• Clean up your own mess.
• Don't take things that aren't yours.
• Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
• Wash your hands before you eat.
• Flush.
• Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
• Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
• Take a nap every afternoon.
• When you go out in the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands and stick together.
• Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup: the roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
• Goldfish and hamsters, and white mice, and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we.
• And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned - the biggest word of all - LOOK.
Source: "ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN" by Robert Fulghum
Mr. Fulghum has hit the nail on the head. Kindergarten and the Pre-K programs that prepare us for it prepare us for life.
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