... for parents to fulfill their role as their child's first teacher, early childhood education and interactive parent and child literacy activities. ...

BEACHLAND ELEMENTARY

McClure Junior High School will hold a car and dog wash from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Sept. 11 on 43rd Street between Wolf Road and Johnson Avenue, just south of the school in Western Springs. The cost $5 for any vehicle or dog, rain or shine.

Find out what to do this week and beyond.

Find out what to do this week and beyond. Be a more mindful parent by joining the Brilliant Parenting Discussion Group at 7 p.m. on the fourth Wednesday of the month at Water's Edge Waldorf School, 150 W. Bonner Road, Wauconda.

Thursday marked the grand opening and the first day for Pre-K students at the Early Childhood Education Center (ECEC) at Thompson Lifelong Learning Center. ...

Students entering full day Kindergarten in Ontario will have both a teacher and an early childhood educator in each class and classes will be only ...

St. Joseph School — a K-8 school that also has a preschool program and an early childhood development center — first opened Sept. 9, 1940, and touts ...

Two hallmarks of the program are the low student to teacher ratio and teachers who hold degrees in early childhood, speech and language, occupational and ...

The couple have never had children in the preschool, but they have been volunteers for several years. “Early childhood education became a real passion of ...

Reading: Ask for volunteer class readers. The parents and child can choose a favorite book, and the parents can read to the class. Special interests: Does a parent have a fun job or special interest. Ask him or her to come in to ...

Participate in parent-teacher conferences where parents or children's guardians can speak one-on-one with a child's teacher to find out how he or she is going. Most districts have copies of the grade curriculum that outlines what children ... Become a PTA member and volunteer where and when you can. PTA members wind up knowing more about what's going on in school than non-members and have easy access to teachers and the principal. That's key, because teachers tend to give ...

Students at Falls-Lenox were greeted with warm smiles and welcoming words as parent volunteers from the Falls-Lenox PTA joined staff members to help guide our young bulldogs. With class lists in hand, parents and staff welcomed ... Thursday , September 9th: Olmsted Early Childhood PTA - 7 p.m. (@ Middle School). Tuesday, September 14th: Middle School PTA – 7 p.m.. Tuesday, September 21st: Intermediate School PTA – 7 p.m.. Monday, September 27th: High School PTA – 7 p.m. ...

The parent volunteer is not the teacher for a day. The parent volunteer is just that, a volunteer, someone to be supportive of classroom activities that have already been planned by the early childhood personnel. ...

But a few of Early Beginnings' parent-child education efforts will continue, thanks to money from the McDonough County United Way. Donnice Hamilton, Early Beginnings' parent program coordinator, said United Way has provided ... Although La Leche League breastfeeding support classes are taught by volunteer parent educators, some of the United Way funds will be used for informational pamphlets and the leasing of hospital-grade nursing pumps that are rented out to mothers. ...