Room 29 at McManus School is a little different than other classrooms on the elementary school campus.
There aren’t any desks, but instead a table surrounded by colorful chairs. Across the room there are toys, a floor mat with different shapes, bright building blocks and a kitchen with toy utensils and food.
It’s different from any other room on the campus, designed to educate the young minds of 3-, 4- and 5-year-olds.
A group of excited youngsters filled the classroom Monday, the opening day of Chico Unified School District’s first preschool. For more than seven months the district has prepared to launch preschools at McManus, Chapman and Citrus schools after receiving $110,000 in California State Preschool Program Expansion Funds to start the program.
The program seeks to make preschool available to more children and allows the district to establish full-day programs, open 246 days a year, that serve more than 70 students at a cost determined by family size and income.
To continue reading this article by Dani Anguiano, go to: www.chicoer.com/social-affairs/20170109/chico-unified-opens-first-district-preschool
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