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Woodley Wonderworks If your child has gone to a preschool or child care center, kindergarten could be a “big change.”
- The kindergarten program will be more formal than preschool. Schools today have more teaching time to meet certain goals.
- Local schools are allowed to choose programs that meet those goals for learning. Schools also choose the daily routine in kindergarten.
- There are demands for English and math that state what children should have learned by the end of the kindergarten year.
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