EllasMum
09-06-2010, 10:59 AM
My niece is starting kindergarten this year. Her school was chosen to be one of the trial schools for full-day kindergarten. I think it is a great idea, as do the parents, from what I hear from my sister. Here's the weirdness: they have a LONG phase-in period. The kids go one day this week, for half an hour - and then nothing for the rest of the week! Next week, they go one hour the first day, then 1.5 hours the next, two days in a row of half days, and then the weekend. The following week starts with 9-12:45 and adds an hour each day until the end of the week, when the kids will go a whole day. I have never heard of such a LONG phase-in period. My sister does not know why it is setup that way - a lot of the kids were already in preschool at the very least, and many of them were in full-day daycare. We are at a loss as to why there would be such a long period to acclimatise these kids. Has anyone encountered anything similar? I don't know of anyone else with DC in full-day kindy, so I am wondering if it is because of that? My sister's older son went through the same school, before the full-day kindy, and she does not recall a phase-in period like this. I wonder if other full-day kindergarten programs have a similar start? :shrug: