Visalia Unified hosts 'TK Round-up' to prepare students and parents for the fall

VISALIA, Calif. (KFSN) -- The Visalia Unified School District believes mentation is cardinal erstwhile it comes to the youngest students starting school.

This summertime successful Visalia Unified, students are doing much than conscionable arts and crafts.

Nearly 200 kids are taking portion successful the archetypal ever "TK Round-up."

It's a a four-week programme giving students the gathering blocks for schoolhouse and teaching parents however to hole their children for Transitional Kindergarten.

Bianca Bitanga enrolled her daughter, Delilah, aft seeing it advertised connected the district's Facebook page.

"Everything that they described astir the programme conscionable seems truthful enriching and breathtaking for kids to attend," Bitanga said.

Children signifier moving alongside different students, however to rotate to antithetic enactment stations and however to instrumentality portion successful a structured day.

"We person a batch of students who enactment successful preschool programs, but a batch of students don't person that opportunity, truthful this gives them an accidental to truly get prepared earlier they really spell into a afloat time of TK," Dir. of Early Childhood Special Education Tina Shirley said.

Shirley says parents are besides being taught.

"So we are providing nonrecreational learning connected slumber hygiene, societal affectional learning, aboriginal literacy and aboriginal numeracy and toileting and kid improvement milestones," Shirley said.

This is the archetypal twelvemonth VUSD has offered TK Roundup.

Superintendent Kirk Shrum says it was created based connected feedback from teachers.

Those teachers shared ideas of what parents tin bash astatine location to assistance acceptable students up for success.

Shrum says it's besides successful enactment with the district's strategical plan, which aims to enactment students during cardinal acquisition transitions, similar starting school.

"I deliberation the feedback from our teacher was truthful integral successful this," Shrum said. "For teachers to accidental here's immoderate things we request to spot for our students, and past to equip the parents with however to bash that, I deliberation that's a large partnership."

Bitanga says she's already seen changes successful Delilah, and she feels adjacent much equipped to proceed helping Delilah hole for the fall.

"So it's helping maine grasp onto what the teachers are doing with her truthful that I tin bash astatine home," Bitanga said.

Any genitor who was incapable to marque it to the TK Roundup tin entree the virtual genitor academy.

It's disposable connected the Visalia Unified School District website. You tin find it by clicking here.

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