Getting Your Child Ready for Kindergarten

You can help prepare your child for Kindergarten through your normal daily routines. Check out this great free app called Ready4K. 

Developed by educational researchers, Ready4K is an evidence-based text messaging program for parents of 3-, 4- and 5-year-olds provided at no cost. Each week, you will receive fun facts and easy tips to boost your child’s learning. Ready4K activities build on the things that you already do with your child -- like getting ready for school, eating meals together, and going to the store -- to make boosting your child’s learning fast, fun and easy. The research behind Ready4K shows that receiving fun facts and easy tips can significantly increase children’s learning.

(Taken from ready4k.parentpowered.com)

Signing up is fast and easy! Here is how it works:

• Enter your information to sign up
• Start receiving text messages
• Watch your child grow

Another resource is the link below which will take you to a video from the Minnesota Department of Education on Early Childhood Screening. This is required for children before entering into Kindergarten.  

Video by MN Dept of ED: Early Childhood Screening

Poison Prevention Week

Did you know that on September 26th, 1961, the United States Congress passed a joint resolution requesting that the President of the United States proclaim the third week of March National Poison Prevention Week? On February 7th, 1962, President John F. Kennedy responded to this request and proclaimed the third week of March as National Poison Prevention Week. The first National Poison Prevention Week was therefore observed in March 1962.

This year it is March 19th-25th. Please help us teach children about poison dangers. If someone may have been poisoned, call the toll free Poison Help Line (1-800-222-1222), which connects you to your local poison center.