It was great!!! Of course it was unfair because parents who couldn’t afford it were unable to send their children full time, but for me it was wonderful. That was when I did a little research on full time Kindergarten, and provided statistics on what was being done in our county, then I wrote a proposal to teach a fee based full time program, that was officially called half time Kindergarten and half time childcare. (Sorry – this is turning into a long story!) After teaching all day/alternate day for a couple of years the district dropped the half day so the children would come 2 days one week, 3 days the next week. But then they weren’t ready for bed that evening so they didn’t get to bed early enough on school days either. Another issue was that families sometimes failed to develop a school routine, they would often allow children to stay up late because the next day was not a school day and they could sleep in. We needed to fill every minute they were at school with meaningful activities because the next day they wouldn’t be there! If a child was absent, he essentially missed 2 days of school. Especially at the beginning of the year, the children were very tired in the afternoon. It was still half time Kindergarten but the children got the experience of having lunch at school, and riding the bus with older siblings both morning and afternoon. This was still a half time program but the children would come Monday, half of Wednesday, and Thursday OR Tuesday, half of Wednesday, and Friday. I taught half time Kindergarten for many years, then my district made the choice to change to all day/alternate day Kindergarten. Here is a little history of how I began using this program. Use an access code to create a new membership account.Īdd more time to an existing membership account with an access code.Most of you are probably familiar with the Starfall program, if you haven’t seen it, please go to and check it out. Refer to the following articles for detailed information about membership levels and using access codes: When purchasing more time for an existing membership, Starfall Customer Service (who generates the access code) will need the level of current membership in order to ensure the level of the new access code matches the current membership level. Membership levels are Home, Teacher, Classroom, and School.
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