About Santa Cruz Preschools
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- A Savvy Primer: How to Best Use The Savvy Source in Your Preschool Search
- Beyond Savvy: What Else Can I Do?
- Beyond the Spirited Child: Behavior Challenges and Preschool
- Demystifying the Admissions Process
- Family Values and the Preschool Curriculum
- Finding the Right Preschool for Your Child
- First Steps: Beginning Your Preschool Search
- Great Preschools: Safety and Leadership
- Great Preschools: The Importance of Home-School Connection
- Great Preschools: The Preschool Mission Statement
- Great Preschools: What about This? What about That?
- Great Preschools: What to Look for in the Classroom
- Helping the Gifted or Challenged Preschooler
- Great Preschools: High Expectations for All Students
- How Schools Motivate the Preschool Learner
- Great Preschools: Individualized Teaching
- Learning Differences in Preschool
- Learning Goals for Your Child
- Learning Styles in Preschoolers
- Money and Education: Affording Preschool
- Music, Art & More: Preschool Extras
- My Child Is on the Waitlist! What Should I Do?
- Parent Involvement: What to Expect
- Practical Matters
- Preschool and Special Needs Children
- Preschool Community Yours and Your Child's
- Remembering to Make the Most of Any Preschool
- Safety and Leadership
- School Rules and Your Values
- Six Steps to a Successful Preschool Choice
- Teaching Methods in the Preschool Classroom
- Tools You Can Use: Preschool Search Worksheets
- Treats and Time Outs: Behavior Management in the Preschool Classroom
- Waldorf? Play-Based? Montessori? What Does It All Mean?
- What Does My Child Need? Cognitive Development and Preschool Selection
- What Makes a Great Preschool?
- What's the Right Age to Begin Preschool?
- What to Expect from Your Preschool Search?
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Trace around your child's foot, with shoe on, on a piece of white construction paper or card stock. Have child cut out the shoe print and add a spooky face. Glue it to a popsicle stick and you have a ghost stick puppet!
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