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Summer Pre-K at Mexico Schools

      Success By 6 Summer Program aids Mexico Youth

 

 

Pre-schoolers in the Mexico school district area are preparing to make the transition to kindergarten as successful as possible thanks to the United Way’s Success By 6 pre-K Summer Program.

 

Administered by the individual schools, the Success By 6 Pre-K Summer Program is in each of the 9 school districts in Oswego County and has total of 15 classrooms.  The Summer Program features a well rounded curriculum which includes special guest readers, a sun safety program taught by the Oswego County Cooperative Extension, and basic social skills such as how to sit and pay attention and how to properly conduct yourself in a school environment. 

 

Melissa Hull, an AIS teacher with the Mexico school district, has been with the Success By 6 pre-K Summer Program for the past 10 summers.  She is impressed with the program and enjoys seeing the children she teaches in the summer begin their school year in September.  “This is an important program as it provides children with the opportunity to enjoy and learn from a preschool experience.” 

 

According to Program Coordinator, Bonnie Holmes, the Success By 6 pre-K Summer Program has been well received by both the children and the teachers.  “The school districts and the teachers recognize that it is an excellent learning program.  It is designed to properly prepare children with the tools and skills they need to succeed when they begin kindergarten and implemented in a way that is educational and fun for the children,” she said.

 

Holmes said that while the goal is the same, each district achieves it a little differently.  In Mexico, Ms. Hull is preparing children by getting them to know the school environment and getting them into a routine that is similar to what they’ll follow when they begin school in September.  Ms. Hull’s class has been learning about their school by following clues to find their missing cookies that were taken by the “Gingerbread Man.”

 

Supported by the United Way, the Success By 6 program strives to increase the effectiveness of the community to meet the needs of children up to age six and their families.  By sharing information and exploring new collaborations for service delivery, Success By 6 seeks to mobilize resources to ensure all children are physically, socially, emotionally and behaviorally able to learn when entering school.

 

Cut line for photo:  Students in the Success By 6 pre-K Summer Program are enjoying school this summer as they prepare to begin kindergarten in the fall.  Pictured above are members of the Mexico pre-K Summer Program at the Mexico Middle School.  Seated in front from left are: Dylan Stacy, Ashley Abbot, Felicity Cornell, Paul Kazmierczak and Sarah Bouck.  Seated in the second row are: Director of the Success By 6 Program, Bonnie Holmes, Ethan Teller, Shaun Huggins, Calista Keefe, and Mikayla Abbott.  Standing from left are: Aden Davis, Teacher’s Assistant, Claire Shoults, Alexis Halstead, Brianna Davis, Haylea Hull, Mariah Hoey, Patrick Hull, Ameri-Corps Members, Maggie Abbate and Ted Jackson, and Teacher Melissa Hull.  

 

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