Head Start Family News News from Lorain County Community Action Agency Head Start • March 2024
Head Start Now Preparing for Kindergarten Enrolling for Fall Preschoolers spend lots of time child’s brain. Even if your child It’s time to register for Head Start for the 20242025 school year!
working on the self-help skills they need to take care of their body independently. School readiness skills are equally important.
If your Head Start student will be returning this fall, contact your family service assistant or home visitor to update your paperwork and reserve your child’s space. If a younger sibling will be joining us, your family service assistant or home visitor can help with that too.
Teachers expect students to respond when they are spoken to. Help your child practice by encouraging them to look up, make eye contact and/ or verbally respond so adults they encounter know they were heard.
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Help your child play with sounds by saying rhyming words and tongue twisters. Clap out the syllables in words and try to teach your child new words to build their vocabulary. Have conversations where you are asking your child to remember things that happened in the past and the order of events. Count going up
Young children respond better when they are given a warning before big Continued on page 3 transitions and this is common in preschool. In kindergarten, they will need to learn to change activities more quickly. You can practice this too. Try to get your child involved in an (non-screen time) activity that sustains their attention for a length of time (ex. books, games, or art projects). Then help them transition from that activity to a different one.
Head Start families must live at or below 130% of the Federal Poverty Line (FPL). Families receiving SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families) or SSI (Supplemental Security Income) are automatically eligible. Homeless children and children in foster or kinship (grand- The ability to hear and distinguish parents) care are also automatically the different sounds in words, also known as phonological awareness, eligible. is so important to develop in your Head Start also serves children with disabilities. Lorain City Schools is in the Registration can be started online at www.lccaa.net/forms. Packets are also available at all of our centers.
can’t identify any letters, they can still learn sounds.
process of changing its cut-off date for kindergarten enrollment. Always check with your school district for the best information on enrollment dates and processes.
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