Definition of preschool
: of, relating to, or constituting the period in a child's life that ordinarily precedes attendance at elementary school
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Your shy child is too busy with preschool friends to wave goodbye to you.
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The slate included everything from kung fu and taekwando demonstrations to K-pop and hip hop dance, and the performers’ ages ranged from preschool dancers to Malden Senior Center singers.
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The Bethune Early Learning Center, the district’s preschool site, will close at the end of the 2019 school year, Hinckley said.
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Higher preschool enrollment and changes in parenting styles, including the rise of the empowered child, also might contribute to generational improvements in kids’ ability to delay gratification, Carlson said.
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The group considered fighting the city's preschool levy in 2016, but took a pass.
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Requirements for the preschool directors include consulting with mentors, bringing children outside daily, establishing a daily schedule, and offering various centers for activities such as art, dramatic play and fine motor skills.
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And basically just started pulling reference images off the internet of preschool décors.
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The younger of the two, about to begin preschool, runs around the property chasing butterflies, demanding to be played with and thrown in the air.
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First Known Use of preschool
1914
Definition of preschool
: a school for children usually younger than those attending elementary school or kindergarten : nursery school
Examples of preschool in a Sentence
children excited about starting preschool
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Nobody should tell me whether or how my daughter should go to preschool.
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Nobody should tell me whether or how my daughter should go to preschool.
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Two are on either side of the Inderkum High School campus, one is near a large apartment complex off Terracina Drive and another is in a residential neighborhood and next to a preschool at Club Center Drive and Danbrook Drive.
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Jocabed Frausto, director of Future Leaders School, was surprised a national news story was playing out so close to her new preschool.
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Rasmus said bash organizers are also wanting to provide a variety of entertainment options that would appeal to any District 204 student from preschool through high school.
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High School Assistant Principal Terry Brownlow will move over to the preschool to become principal there.
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The first incident happened just after Thanksgiving at Safari Kid, a preschool and daycare in Union City east of San Francisco Bay.
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The institution includes an onsite preschool and charter school serving 400 children a day, after-school programming in Liberty City for 200 students, and programs for children with autism and special needs.
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First Known Use of preschool
circa 1925
preschool Synonyms
PRESCHOOL Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of preschool for English Language Learners
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: relating to the time in a child's life when the child is old enough to talk and walk but is not ready to go to school
Definition of preschool for English Language Learners
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: a school for very young children
PRESCHOOL Defined for Kids
Definition of preschool for Students
: relating to the time in a child's life that comes before attendance at school
Definition of preschool for Students
: a school for children usually under five years old who are too young for kindergarten
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