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Metea Valley High School opens its doors to preschoolers
By Justin Kmitch | Daily Herald Staff
Published: 6/25/2010 12:00 AM
A whole new size of freshman is about to enter the rodeo at Metea Valley High School this fall.
School officials are preparing to open the new, three-day-a-week Mini Mustang Preschool on Sept. 20. About 17 Mini-Mustangs already are enrolled.
For the preschoolers, the program includes participating in activities revolving around a weekly theme and dabbling in art, science, the alphabet, a sensory table and other activities and skills. Students must be toilet trained and the program is open to families throughout Indian Prairie Unit District 204.
For high schoolers, however, the new program is a lab-class offered to juniors and seniors. They'll be developing lesson plans to teach curricular subjects and age-appropriate techniques based on strategies learned in Child Development and Early Childhood Teaching lab classes.
"Not many students are aware this will be offered in the fall, but we're really hoping the word gets out to both the community and our students," said Jill Hlavacek, chairwoman of the Business/FACS and Applied Tech department. "This is an ideal course for students who want to be teachers, doctors, and just about any other field involving children."
The preschool, open to 3- and 4-year-olds will meet from 9:15 to 10 a.m. three days a week and classes will follow the high school schedule with a semester break. Hlavacek said she hopes to increase the time slot for the class next year when the high school has both a full junior and senior class.
Teaching Lab instructor Sally O'Rourke, who has worked in similar preschools at both Neuqua Valley and Waubonsie Valley high schools, said she is confident her students will make the 45 minutes both fun and educational for the Mini-Mustangs.
"We're going to run a program very similar to the other two programs by incorporating the best of each," O'Rourke said. "We're going to focus on positive enforcement and student growth from both an educational and social level."
Tours of the facility will be scheduled in August for parents and preschoolers.
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one way to 'fill up' the school!
Metea Valley High School opens its doors to preschoolers
By Justin Kmitch | Daily Herald Staff
Published: 6/25/2010 12:00 AM
A whole new size of freshman is about to enter the rodeo at Metea Valley High School this fall.
School officials are preparing to open the new, three-day-a-week Mini Mustang Preschool on Sept. 20. About 17 Mini-Mustangs already are enrolled.
For the preschoolers, the program includes participating in activities revolving around a weekly theme and dabbling in art, science, the alphabet, a sensory table and other activities and skills. Students must be toilet trained and the program is open to families throughout Indian Prairie Unit District 204.
For high schoolers, however, the new program is a lab-class offered to juniors and seniors. They'll be developing lesson plans to teach curricular subjects and age-appropriate techniques based on strategies learned in Child Development and Early Childhood Teaching lab classes.
"Not many students are aware this will be offered in the fall, but we're really hoping the word gets out to both the community and our students," said Jill Hlavacek, chairwoman of the Business/FACS and Applied Tech department. "This is an ideal course for students who want to be teachers, doctors, and just about any other field involving children."
The preschool, open to 3- and 4-year-olds will meet from 9:15 to 10 a.m. three days a week and classes will follow the high school schedule with a semester break. Hlavacek said she hopes to increase the time slot for the class next year when the high school has both a full junior and senior class.
Teaching Lab instructor Sally O'Rourke, who has worked in similar preschools at both Neuqua Valley and Waubonsie Valley high schools, said she is confident her students will make the 45 minutes both fun and educational for the Mini-Mustangs.
"We're going to run a program very similar to the other two programs by incorporating the best of each," O'Rourke said. "We're going to focus on positive enforcement and student growth from both an educational and social level."
Tours of the facility will be scheduled in August for parents and preschoolers.
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one way to 'fill up' the school!
