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Pre-School and Daycare
Where does your preschooler go in the summer?
We were planning to keep DS at home, but a lot of families in my area send their preschoolers to summer camp once school is out. Is that pretty much the norm? For some reason, I always thought summer camp was for older kids (I never went, so I have no idea).
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Re: Where does your preschooler go in the summer?
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My DD goes to preschool through the summer - same schedule - 3x a week, 3 hours a day. I think I'd pretty much go nuts without it. She gets the consistency of school, sees her friends, gets some learning and crafts in that I don't have time for at school. I need to get stuff done - like chores and shopping - and I don't need to be dragging 2 kids with me - I think we both get great benefits from it. She is always asking when school is, so she definitely wants to go.
Also, I love summertime, but honestly there are plenty of rainy or extremely hot days, she can benefit from having an active day inside at school. I always think we're going to do so much in the summer, but we get plenty of miserably hot days where we don't need action-packed days!
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I'm a teacher, and they only go to preschool part time during the school year.
If money wasn't an issue, I'd probably have them in a class that goes 3 hours/3 days per week. We have a city Playcamp program that runs twice per week for two hours, so that will have to do. It will give me a short break-a very short break.
DD has been going to her current preschool since this past June, so this is all new to us. She was young enough at the start of the summer to be in their Early Childhood Program, which had more daycare-ish hours (even though it's a school and not a daycare). It was very flexible with drop-off and pick-up hours, and went from 7 am-6 pm every day. I noticed they had a daytime summer camp for the older kids called Kidventure, though, and that's what she'll be doing at least some this coming summer. Kidventure is its own company and not run by her school, but we're fortunate in that it comes to her school specifically, so it's very convenient for us
They also have a winter day camp during one of the two weeks DD is out of school during the Christmas break, so I'm signing her up for a couple of days for that
I would think there are independently-run summer camps like that all over the country. You might want to check into Kidventure...I have no idea whether that's a nationwide thing or just in Texas, but it's worth looking into.
Around here a lot of parents do week-long day camps, sometimes several of them throughout the summer. Our preschool offers two day camps the first two weeks after school lets out, and apparently they fill up quickly. I know our local Y offers a bunch of camps for preschoolers throughout the summer too.
Last summer we did a week-long half-day soccer camp in July, mostly because two of her neighborhood friends were doing it, and because it was too convenient not to do it since it's held in the park right next to our neighborhood. We'll probably do it again next summer. She also wants to start ballet classes, so she'll probably continue those over the summer too, although they're only once a week.
Other than that, we'll stay home and take trips to the pool and zoo and spend our weekends at the beach as usual. I might be convinced to sign up for other camps if her BFFs are doing them, but for now I don't have any planned.