Preschool Information
WILL YOUR CHILD BE 4 BY SEPTEMBER 1?
The Great Start Readiness Program (GSRP) is Michigan's state-funded preschool program for four-year-old children. GSRP programs use the HighScope curriculum.
HighScope’s goals for young children:
- To learn through active involvement with people, materials, events, and ideas.
- To become independent, responsible, and confident – ready for school and ready for life.
- To learn to plan many of their own activities, carry them out, and talk with other children and their teachers about what they have done and what they have learned.
- To learn to express their feelings and get along with others in rewarding relationships.
- To gain knowledge and skills in important content areas including approaches to learning; social and emotional development; physical development and health; language, literacy, and communication; mathematics; creative arts; science and technology; and social studies.
Parent Notifications
Home to School Connections
Preschool 101
Understanding preschool development.
Preschool Growth & Development
Ages & Stages of child behavior.
Learning Activities for Preschoolers
Meaningful Math
Hands-on experiences and activities are the best ways for your child to learn math. Math learning is the most meaningful for your child when she is allowed to explore, solve problems, and explain her thinking.
Living Literacy
Young children learn through active, playful and self-initiated activities. Your home can provide activities for language and literacy learning.
Simply Science
As young children explore their environment, they begin to notice relationships that are the foundations for science. Their curiosity pulls them into experiences with the natural world and makes them explore how things work.
Social Studies
Social studies helps students understand their heritage and acquire the skills and sensitivities basic to participation as citizens in our country.
Countdown to Kindergarten
In just a few months, your baby will be off to school! Ensure a seamless transition with our parent-tested resources.
Transition to Kindergarten
The resource is a culmination of many offices within MDE working together to develop Parent Guides, a series of tip sheets which highlight a variety of questions parents may have when their children are entering kindergarten.
Family Play Plans
Busy families often find it hard to set aside time for play, especially with the distraction of screens and technology.
TRUCE offers some seasonal, screen-free ideas, using everyday items, to inspire your whole family - whatever their ages - to play together.
CACFP
Community Unlimited participates with the Child and Adult Food Program
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Persons with disabilities who require alternative means of communication for program information (e.g., Braille, large print, audiotape, American Sign Language, etc.) should contact the responsible Agency or USDA's TARGET Center at (202) 720-2600 (voice and TTY) or contact USDA through the Federal Relay Service at (800) 877-8339. Additionally, program information may be made available in languages other than English.
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