If your LO has 3 years of preschool...

NJLH · December 2011

What days of the week do u send them? My girls will just miss out on kindergarten (fall birthdays). I started them in school this year twice a week, and they'll have 2 more years following. I'm trying to decide if I should stick to 2 days next year or go three (their school offers both options)I think their class friends will all move up to 3 days. Two days is much more economical but I'd hate for them to be on a different schedule than everyone they know. I'm sure the 3rd year, I'll do at least 3 days. Thanks for any input!

Spin313 · December 2011

My kids both have March birthdays and will only have two years of preschool, but I thought I'd respond anyway. This year, DS goes two mornings. Next year, he will go three mornings. The third year, he will do Kindergarten five days a week, mornings only.

If I were doing three years of PS, that is the same schedule I'd follow (two days, then three days, then five days of mornings only).

luvmagoldn · December 2011

At our preschool the 3's go twice a week, 4's go three times and the 5's (who missed the cutoff for K) go every day. Each of these are either three hours in the morning or three hours in the afternoon.

rsd12 · December 2011

My middle son will be going 2 +years. He started last April for speech and went 4 days, 4 days this year & because I am holding him out (end of dec cut off & birthday) he will be going 5 days next year. My oldest only went 2 years - 1st year 2 days, 2nd yr 3 days. I am most likely holding out my younget too, and he will only go 2 years (following my first childs schedule). My middle son is going to our town preschool for speech services.

daisyterp · December 2011

My DD went just 1 day a week at 2, she goes 2 days a week as a 3. If we choose the same school for DS he will have to do at least 2 days a week as a 2 y/o, as the school now only offers Tu-Th or MWF 2s. 3 yo also either go MWF or TuTh. The 4s class (aka Pre-K) is 5 days a week.

I am not sure if we are going to keep DD (and therefore DS) at this school next year. Ideally I would like DD to go to school 4 days a week (have Monday or Friday off,) but for a longer period than the 2.5 hours her current school runs.

franciscaz · December 2011

Harm started earlier. He will keep 4 days a week for these first two years and 5 his last.

Jen&Len · December 2011

DS is doing 3 mornings a week this year, 5 mornings a week next year and possibly 3 full days and 2 mornings a week the third year.

AgrippaRidesAgain · December 2011

We probably won't be sending DD until she is 4. I don't know that she needs 3 years of preschool. However, if we were going to do it, I'd probably do 2 days a week, then 3 days, then 5 days. That way the days build up and she'd be ready for 5 day a week full day Kindergarten the following year.

NJLH · December 2011

Thanks all....I guess it would make sense to increase to 3 days next year, but damn, its so expensive :-(

HarrietNJMommy · December 2011

2 days first year

3 days second year

5 days third year

We have full day K in my area, and I wanted an easier transition. It's working well for us.

Leila'sMommy · December 2011

DD goes to preschool MWF, all day. It will be like that until September 2014, when she starts kindergarten.

kittylove · December 2011

Our school has them go 2 days then 3days then 4 days. Or for kids who only go for 2 yrs, they go 3 days then 4 days. I feel like it works out well and all the classes are only 2.5-3.5 hours long.

malejos0226 · December 2011

I had this same scenario in my head too. Both of my LO will miss the TX cut off unless for some reason DH's job relocates us somewhere else. DS's birthday is Oct 7, and DD is Oct 2. DD will either be starting mother's day out in January going two days a week, and then I had plans to enroll her three days a week next fall in the school's Pre school program and then they have a kindergarten program for kids who miss the cut off which they have to go four days a week (the school is not open on fridays). They are open 9-2 so it's close to a full day at school. I think that is a good way to transition to what they will be doing once enrolled in Kindergarten through the school. (I am getting a degree in elementary education and masters in school counseling). My daughter has not been to day care so I do try and buy work books for her that we work on reviewing shapes, colors, counting, letters, etc. DS will follow the same plan as DD unless I am finished and teaching by the time it's his turn. The preschool mother's day out doesn't take children until age 1.

KristinKD · December 2011

We are doing:

First year: two-day 2s
Second year: three-day 3s/young 4s
Third year: four-day pre-k
Kindergarten: five-day morning

Our preschool also has the option of three-day 2s and five-day pre-k. The second year they split into 3s (with spring/summer birthdays) and young 4s (with fall/winter birthdays), but both are only offered three days.

I like the schedule we chose because it eases her into it a bit more, and even though DD2 has a spring birthday and could get away with two years starting with the 3s class, we are having her follow the same schedule as DD1.

ecoppins · December 2011

Dd1 is in the same boat, she misses the cut off by a month. Oh well. Last year, she went two days a week (she was in the two's class, but was three for most of the year.) This year it is three days a week, for the threes, and next year it is 4 days a week for the fours. The school also has a young three class that goes two days a week, and a 5 year old class that goes 5 days a week, but only in the afternoon.

I chose the three day a week class for her this year because she was ready for more, and as she is older I didn't want her in the younger three's class.

malejos0226 · December 2011

DD is staring what they call Parents Day Out in which the program runs from 8:30-3:30 and they have a choice of M/W/F or T/Th or even the choice of M-F from 8:30-11:30

We chose the M/W/F program because moneywise it made more sense. Plus my daughter has not been in a daycare or anything except once when she was a little younger than 2 and she was only in it for probably three weeks. Now that she is older I know she is ready because when we did a trial class she ran in and just jumped into doing activities and had already forgotten that I was still there.

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