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Community Peers Information for Preschool
5/9/2025
Dear Parents/Guardians,
Daniels Run will continue to have community peers in our preschool program. The early childhood special education staff members have been offering opportunities for our students to participate in integration activities with typically developing peers. This will involve teaching preschoolers with delays and without delays in the same classroom. It can provide young children with a more stimulating environment, teach skills for coping with different situations, and provide the opportunity to learn appropriate social skills.
Our program will invite a limited number of community preschoolers (2), who are age 3 ½ -5 years, to participate in our daily preschool activities. The children from the community will have the opportunity to make new friends and share experiences with current early childhood special education students. Our students will, in turn, benefit from being with community peers who can model appropriate language, motor, and social skills. Parents must provide transportation for these children to and from school daily.
All children learn through their play. Intellectual growth occurs in a social context, influenced strongly by the quality of social interactions. The goal of this program is to encourage active learning and promote social interaction and acceptance through shared experiences between the community children and our preschoolers with special needs. If you are interested in having your child attend a screening “play date” in our preschool classroom to determine if your preschool aged child might meet the criteria to be a community peer, complete both the Peer Model Interest Form and the Child Profile sheet no later than Friday, May 16, 2025. You can email the forms to mmbaker@fcps.edu or you can drop them off in the front office.
Sincerely,
Susan Mullen, Principal
Daniels Run ES
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