Community Kids Preschool

The Getting Ready Together program is a free 10-week summer intensive preschool opportunity with a focus on early reading and math skills. It’s intended to increase a child’s readiness to enter kindergarten and designed to serve children who have never had a preschool experience or who are entering kindergarten in the fall and would benefit from some additional classroom experience. 

Transportation is provided to and from school. Snacks and lunch will be served at no cost to families. New this year, Key Kids Child Care will be available at Goodview if families need care before and/or after the program. More information about Key Kids can be found here.

2025 information

• June 10-August 7 (No class June 19 and July 3)
• Monday-Thursday
• 9 a.m. to noon
• Goodview Elementary, 5100 W. 9th St., Goodview

Getting Ready Together provides

• Intensive instruction
• Opportunities to develop reading skills
• Opportunities to develop math skills

Who is eligible?

Students entering kindergarten who meet income requirements. 

APPLICATION

The core of our curriculum is the importance of play. While we do some "table work" in the preschool classrooms, we rely mostly on children's innate abilities to learn through play. This does not mean, as some may fear, that children run around the room all day with no schedule or direction. It does mean that they are given plenty of time to interact with each other, experiment, imagine, and pretend within a challenging, supportive, scheduled and teacher-facilitated environment. Lesson Plans for each week are posted on the classroom bulletin board.

The primary role of the teachers in the preschool classrooms is to interact with the children, extending play and acting on learning opportunities. In this way, classroom order is also easily maintained. Additionally, we strive to observe the children for assessment and planning purposes. We use the Creative Curriculum Assessment and Planning System; children are observed, not tested, to assess skills and needs. Lesson plans and classroom arrangement are then based on these assessments.

STUDENT HANDBOOK