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Getting Ready for Kindergarten
Check out Smart Beginnings. It's designed
to make the transition to kindergarten easier
for you and your budding scholar: http://
www.smartbeginningsra.org/
Use the Central Rappahannock Regional
Library. In addition to regular, free story
times for the little ones at each branch, the
CRRL website has a special section devoted
to its youngest patrons, including a great
site called Day by Day VA: A Family Literacy
Calendar with an activity each day to
encourage your child's early grasp of reading.
Even more sites for young kids are linked via
CRRL here: http://www.librarypoint.org/kidsjr
May is Early Intervention Month. Contact
the Rappahannock Community Services Board
(RACSB) for an free early assessment of your
child's readiness: http://www.racsb.state.va.us/
earlyintervention.htm
In Fredericksburg, we would like to be able to
provide preschool services to children starting from
0-3…similar to the Early Head Start Program in
Stafford County. At this point, we do not have
the resources (money, staff and facility) to ser-
vice the younger children. There are a number of
children in the 3 and 4 age bracket that would
like to be in our program…but due to the list of
limitations…we are unable to service them. At this
time, our staff are previewing new federal funds
that will be available (through the grant applica-
tion processes) under The President's Universal
Preschool Initiative.
Dr. Killough: [Caroline County] is pushing hard to
have every child on reading level by the second
grade, and that involves strong early childhood
programs. If you can't read you can't succeed.
We hope you are all very inspired to get your
child ready for kindergarten now. Whether it is a
simple board book or a chapter book, take the
time to read each day with your children (audio
books are also a great option, and all library
branches have many to choose from). Do your
part to ensure their success and then join forces
with Ready Freddie, and our wonderful school sys-
tems, which will partner with you come fall! No
matter if your child is 6 months old or almost
five, the first day of school will be here before
you know it!
Mary Becelia lives with her family in southern
Stafford County.
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