Kindergarten
Feb. 16th, 2010 01:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ste_noniI took a brief break from studying today to go pick up Ellie's kindergarten registration packet. Turns out that our "full-day" kindergarten here is really a half day kindergarten plus half day "enrichment" (but with her teacher in her same room). The difference is that we have to pay $1800 a school year for her to be in full day K that ends at 3:00. Do you see where I'm going here? There is no after care program at her school. So while I want her to do full day, I have to find someone to watch her from 3:00-4:00, which is when I'm usually done working, assuming I find enough work, but that is a different post.
I called Ft. Carson's after care program since we are so close. They do after care (only $140 a month so $1260 for the year) but they won't go get her because they don't bus outside their district. We could, perhaps, send her to school on Ft. Carson but we live in a better district and we are planning on staying her, so that's not really a long term solution.
Next up - meet our new neighbors and see if she can hang at someone's house for an hour after school. I actually have a possibility (our friends live two blocks away. Their son is 11 - will he still be in elementary next year, i'll have to check. I think Ellie could walk home with him and they have an au pair at home. Ellie loves being at their house (they have cats) and Ellie loves their son, but he's a little weirded out by the attention from a 4 year old girl.
I called Ft. Carson's after care program since we are so close. They do after care (only $140 a month so $1260 for the year) but they won't go get her because they don't bus outside their district. We could, perhaps, send her to school on Ft. Carson but we live in a better district and we are planning on staying her, so that's not really a long term solution.
Next up - meet our new neighbors and see if she can hang at someone's house for an hour after school. I actually have a possibility (our friends live two blocks away. Their son is 11 - will he still be in elementary next year, i'll have to check. I think Ellie could walk home with him and they have an au pair at home. Ellie loves being at their house (they have cats) and Ellie loves their son, but he's a little weirded out by the attention from a 4 year old girl.