Both the Eastern and Linton Head Start programs have been very busy wrapping up the end of the year activities with their children and families. The Eastern High School Early Childhood Development Class invited the children to their classrooms where they worked with each child on individualized activities. The Linton High School Child Development Class visited the Head Start classroom to finalize their last round of activities with the children...

Children's earliest experience with school, including preschool, can be a critical determinant of their success in school. Specifically, research has suggest that strong positive relationships between children and teachers, children and peers, parents and teachers, and preschool teachers and kindergarten teachers help to build competencies in young children and ease the transition into kindergarten...

The Linton and Eastern Head Starts recently hosted M.A.G.I.C. week at their perspective sites. M.A.G.I.C. stands for Mothers, Aunts, Grandmothers, Inspirational Women, and Caregivers. This is a time we specifically invite women to participate in the classroom happenings...

Before our blog gets under way I thought I should explain to everyone how Head Start began. In January 964, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared "The War on Poverty" in his State of the Union speech. The War on Poverty program was led by Sargent Shriver, who Johnson appointed personally. In November 1964, Lyndon Johnson was elected President, and him and Shriver assembled a committee of academic and civil rights activists (Kagan, 2002)...