GIG HARBOR "Gig Harbor is home to a small well known classroom where the ABCs of dreams are engineered.
The Early Childhood Education and Assistant Program (ECEAP) operates a preschool out of an Artondale Elementary School portable, with an continuing assignment of assisting low-income family groups with early infancy development, in a fun, protected and severe environment.
The state-funded ECEAP has been a segment of the Peninsula School District (PSD), assisting youngsters and family groups on the Gig Harbor and Key peninsulas for more than 10 years.
According to Karen Ragan, a family encouragement dilettante at the Artondale-based preschool, her campus takes PSD and home-schooled 4-year-olds (on the Gig Harbor side of the Purdy Spit) in to its program, whose family groups validate beneath sovereign misery guidelines.
"The principal concentration of our module is to learn amicable romantic development. We learn young kids how to correlate with their peers, how to complaint solve, and how to fool around smartly," mentioned Jen Kimble, lead teacher.
She mentioned that a few preschools are more educational oriented and concentration primarily on learning the simple 123s and ABCs.
"We learn that here at the ECEAP, but in a not similar way. we do not do send teaching; 'this is the e-mail A, this is an apple, apple starts with A,' and that type of stuff. The kids learn their ABCs and 123s by games and by interactive fool around with their peers," she mentioned recently.
Kimble peppers her students with "thinking questions" to help them find answers and (empowering) conclusions on their own.
The multi-stationed classroom looks and feels more similar to a friendly home, then a normal white-walled college environment.
"I try to give them lots of opportunities to try not similar things, not similar textures, not similar smells, not similar tastes, and with a accumulation of toys to fool aroun! d with. And we do a lot of art.
"The objective here is to agree to our emotions, and to learn how to composed ourselves down so we can finish problems without the conventional hitting, biting, scratching, and screaming at any other," she added.
Kimble mentioned that as segment of the curriculum, she moreover teaches illness and nutrition. "We speak about great foods, bad foods, and strong foods."
Ragan mentioned the ECEAP is unique for a preschool, since its umbrella of services offers life-changing solutions is to whole family. Ragan serves as a relationship with outward agencies that offer family groups opportunities and a uninformed citation of encouragement and empowerment.
If a family comes to the module without medical insurance, or can't means food and are not reception assistance, she mentioned that the ECEAP walks them to the resources.
"I help them apply, and go to meetings with them to figure all this things out, and set them up for success," Ragan added.
Within the initial month in its system, family groups normally obtain illness insurance and dental insurance for their child. They might moreover be reception possibly TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Family), a money grant, and validate for food stamps as well, she said. The ECEAP moreover provides illness and nourishment screenings is to children.
Ragan mentioned that she doesn't wish the program's gift routine to be a stumbling inhibit for people to attain out to the ECEAP.
"We've seen a lot of family groups that have had a actual downturn of income. If you have a buddy or a family associate that you regard would validate is to program, greatfully impute them to us and we will help them by the process," she said.
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