D11 Preschool Connection

Updates and Information for Our Community of Families

December 2024

What's Happening in Preschool?

A few times a year, our teachers love having the opportunity to build in a few weeks to delve deeply into a topic that targets fun student interests! For the last two weeks of December, your teacher will be moving off of the planned curriculum and onto a teacher-selected theme. During these teacher-themed weeks, students continue to follow the regular routine, and academic concepts continue to be taught daily, imbedded in a fun theme! Regular curriculum themes will resume after the winter break.

Curriculum Highlight: Math

Preschool-age children are naturally curious about math concepts! They want to build, sort, count and measure. Our preschool classrooms provide young children with materials to explore math concepts during play, and teachers provide direct math instruction using the curriculum Developing Math Concepts in Pre-Kindergarten. This curriculum focuses on teaching number concepts, geometry, and patterns through hands-on manipulation and play.

Early math concepts taught in our preschool classrooms include:

counting objects by giving each object one number
understanding the concept of "how many there are" when we count a group of objects
introducing written numbers and the quantities of each number
identifying and labeling shapes, and describing features of shapes
creating and describing patterns

Enrollment for the 2025-26 School Year

AGE ELIGIBILITY

Children with a birthdate on or before October 1, 2020 will be eligible for kindergarten in the fall of 2025 and are not eligible to continue attending District 11 preschool next year.

PRESCHOOL ENROLLMENT:

If your child will continue with us in preschool next year (birthdate AFTER 10/01/2020), we will be sending more information about the application process ASAP. The Colorado Department of Early Childhood has announced that the Universal Preschool application for the 25-26 school year will be open around December 18. We have been told that current students and siblings of current students will once again be prioritized.

The District 11 Preschool Registration, for brand new students, will be available in January.

Watch our website, www.D11.org/Preschool, for updates and links to these applications!

KINDERGARTEN ENROLLMENT:

If you are interested in sending your child to a District 11 kindergarten outside your neighborhood school, you will need to submit a Choice permit between December 16, 2024 and February 15, 2025. That application is linked here: www.D11.org/choice .

More information about District 11's amazing kindergartens is here! https://www.d11.org/families-community/enrollment/kindergarten-enrollment/free-full-day-kindergarten-in-d11 .

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Resources for Families

D11 is here to help! We can get you connected to many, many resources. If your family needs a specific type of support, you can reach out to your child's teacher, your school, or the Early Childhood office.

The Early Childhood Office has a Community Liaison, Angie Boucher, who specializes in connecting families with community resources. Please call Angie to request information on any resources you may need at 719-520-2543.