Sentences with phrase «regular kindergarten»

Because he received speech and occupational therapies before starting elementary school, he could attend regular kindergarten with minimal help.

Please keep in mind that children who are accepted into regular kindergarten are entering kindergarten a year earlier and will be expected to move to first grade the next year.

If press accounts are to be believed, the usually sensible California Legislative Analyst's Office declared this measure cost - neutral because the savings from having fewer kids in regular kindergarten will supposedly pay for the transitional program.

These children became ineligible to enter regular kindergarten in fall 2012 under the state's Kindergarten Readiness Act of 2010.

Option 2: Children who turn 5 between September 1 and December 31 may be assessed in order to qualify for acceptance into the district's regular kindergarten program.

Under longstanding California practice, they may enter regular kindergarten when they are still 4, so long as they turn 5 by December 2.

According to the legislation, in the following two years, some 80,000 additional students who were still 4 in September and October would also be barred from regular kindergarten, but would have the option of enrolling in transitional kindergarten.

In addition, it created a new program, called Transitional Kindergarten, which requires (and funds) an extra year of free, public schooling for children whose 5th birthday falls between September 2 and December 2 — those children who, under the old law, would have been eligible to attend regular kindergarten.

So, as a practical matter, districts (including ours) will likely choose not to serve children who turn 5 after December 2 until the following school year, when they can enter regular kindergarten.

In school systems that offer separate instruction for gifted students, children generally begin their schooling in a regular kindergarten classroom of mixed abilities.

These children have the opportunity to attend a year of transitional kindergarten, followed by a year of regular kindergarten.

A testing group of 77 participated in the self control ability enhancement program and a control group of 56 participated in the regular kindergarten program.