Middletown Kindergartener's Go All-Day |
Monday, March 2, 2009 8:34:39 AM - Middletown Ohio |
By: Tara Kunkle
Wildwood Elementary School kindergarten has a full day of class time for the first time now. This school year Middletown has made it to where kindergarteners will go to school all-day. This almost tripled the time students will spend in school.
There are many benefits to having the kids there all day. There is the opportunity for a lot more teaching for students to comprehend what is being taught to them. The Middletown students take a reading assessment in September that gauges skill levels when they start school. In January they will take another test that can tell whether they are learning what they need to be and keeping up with other students. The results from 2007-2008 show that the students that have been going to kindergarten all day have had an upward trend in their performance.
Ohio Governor Ted Strickland would like for every Ohio school to be able to see and use these benefits of the students going to school all day. He has recently proposed a plan that would require every school district in the state to offer all-day kindergarten by the year of 2012.
Just because the students are their longer does not mean a nap time. The students will be around art, music and physical education during the full day. With the extra time in class many students have put more words together, sounding them out and writing
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