Early Childhood Family Education
Early Childhood Family Education (ECFE)
Our ECFE program in Hill City runs during the school year on Wednesday's from 9:30 am - 11:00 am. Jaime Hilton is our parent educator and Lauren Hidde is our child educator. The children get to meet other families, play, and interact with many different toys and materials.
If you are interested in ECFE contact Brandon Otway at botway@isd002.org. Registration forms are available at the school or you can print the form here.
2022-2023 Dates
ECFE Schedule
9:30 am - 9:45 am Arrival
9:45 am - 10:30 am Children Play while parents go to the parent group
10:30 am - 10:55 am Family Activity
10:55 am - 11:00 am Goodbye Group Song
Parents are encouraged to separate from their child(ren) for the parent group (9:45) to initiate separating for short periods of time. Snack will be served to children during arrival and play time.
Early Childhood Screening
2022-2023 Early Childhood Screening Dates:
October 5th
February 22nd
Connecting to Learn is our ECFE curriculum. The creators of this curriculum are Jennifer Sadlovsky and Beka Swisher. Both creators have teaching licenses in education as well as many years of experience teaching. The Connecting to Learn website states, "Connecting to Learn is a comprehensive ECFE curriculum, training, and consulting, designed to equip parent and child educators.
We provide research-based, adaptable, transformative and user-friendly lessons for new and experienced teachers.
Our early childhood family education curriculum empowers teachers, school districts, and community groups to build healthy families."
At Hill City Preschool we use a free smart phone app called Seesaw. This is our most popular mode of communication to families. You can also access it online. We are aligned with Hill City Elementary so families will use this platform throughout elementary school. It is a great way to get used to this app. If you do not have access to a phone or computer we will always offer other communication options.
Notifications will be sent through the Seesaw app when needed.
We also have a Facebook page for Hill City ECFE where we post information and upcoming projects!
