Early Learning Neighborhood Collaborative-Kalamazoo

With the new school year, dropping off your little scholar may be an anxious event for both you and them. Need some tips on how to manage separation anxiety?

1. Develop goodbye rituals- Create a rhyme for you and your kiddo to do every morning or always give a hug before they enter their classroom.

2. Help your child make a smooth adjustment- Reassure your child that you will be picking them up at a given time and exit the room quickly to avoid the tears!

3. Get to know your teacher- You can relax more if you create a relationship with your child's teacher. They can reassure you of the transition, provide you with peace of mind with your child's schedule, and a safety net for your kiddo.

4. Reinforce the bond- When you are reunited after school, spend intentional quality time cuddling, reading, or playing a game together to make up for the missed time.

Comment a ❤ if these tips were helpful!

And just like that the first week of school has come to an end! ELNC parents sent in some “My First Day of Pre-K” photos to show off some first day excitement. ✏️🧠📚

Yesterday was the first day of preschool programming! Check out our smiling families at partner site Escuelita Nuevo Horizonte 🫶🏽✏️🧠📚

Our staff gathered for a professional development day this week! Any time you can strengthen your skills is a great day. 🌟

All of our ELNC partner sites have 3-year-old spots still available! If you are in need of quality early childhood education programming, look no further. Click the link below to learn more and enroll 👇🏾

https://elncgr.org/enrollment/

Who's excited for the first day of pre-k? Only 8 more days until our little scholars gather together to learn, teach, and grow! 🧠📚✏

Ready or not, pre-k here we come! Let's make this school year one for the books 📚 Our little scholars at Kalamazoo partner site Pre-K International started their first day of preschool today! Comment a ❤️ to send them love on their first day.

ELNC stands by 4 core values that support our mission to provide our community with educational resources that will increase early childhood education access to our youngest scholars. ✏🧠📚

Those values are:

Outcomes: Driven, results-oriented - We must ensure our children develop and are educated, not by our good works, but by evidence of their increasing knowledge, skills, and abilities.

Cultural Competence: Children develop and grow best in ways that are consistent with the cultural rhythms and patterns of their families.

Creativity and Innovation: Current efforts leave far too many children in under-resourced neighborhoods lagging behind in development and education. We must find and use new and different objectives, strategies, and activities to help our children thrive.

Place-Based: We are committed to the belief that the best environment for the early education of children is rooted in what is local-the unique history, environment, culture, economy, literature, and art of a particular place--that is, in a child's own “place”; or immediate schoolyard, neighborhood, town or community.

Is your little scholar struggling to prepare for preschool after a fun-filled summer? Check out this article to learn more ways to make the switch from Summer to school!
https://www.scholastic.com/.../10-ways-to-make-switch...