Sung Hui Lewis, Executive Director of Early Academics for the school system, also urged parents to get involved with their students’ educations and to join the Parent Teacher Association at their schools. “Just like feeding them to help their brains grow, you need to be reading to them to help their minds grow,” she said. And she encouraged parents to continue reading to the children at home. Geri Mullis, Director of the Marshes of Glynn Libraries, said the students collectively read more than 300 hours. Volunteers with the Reading Rockets program came each day to read to the students. The school system collaborated with the Marshes of Glynn Libraries and the Saint Simons Rotary Club’s Reading Rockets program, to emphasize literacy skills for the pre-schoolers. “When you think about the per-child investment, if this helps make these kids successful going forward, it’s a tiny, tiny drop in the bucket,” Hepburn said. “When this idea got just made sense to invest and give it a chance to be piloted.”Īfter including additional training and other costs, the foundation will have donated a total of about $50,000, Hepburn said, all directed toward improving early childhood education in Glynn County. “We have a long-standing focus on early childhood literacy and education for at-risk kids,” Hepburn said. The Communities of Coastal Georgia Foundation provided a $40,000 grant to fund the pilot program, said Valerie Hepburn, the Foundation’s President and CEO. They learned to identify numbers, shapes and colors, while also developing social skills and beginning to learn to read. Glynn County teachers worked with the students daily from 8 a.m. “We were trying to give them a jumpstart on kindergarten expectations,” said assistant principal Kathleen Hambright. The Glynn County Jumpstart Summer Pre-Kindergarten program aimed to help students who had no previous pre-school experience. 11, in a program launched this year to emphasize early childhood education. These four and five-year olds have spent the month of July preparing to start school on Aug. Smartphones were held high in the air, and some parents even stood on table seats to get a better view, as their children performed the classics.Īt the closing celebration of the first Jumpstart pre-school program on Friday, 30 soon-to-be kindergartners read “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” followed by a performance of “Brown Bear, Brown Bear, Where Are You?”
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