Airport's offers three preschool sessions for children
who will be four by December 1 of the current school year. 

The sessions are Monday/Wednesday/Friday mornings,
Monday/Wednesday/Friday afternoons or Tuesday/Thursday afternoons. 

The preschool is located at:
Eyler Elementary School
Room 94
1335 Carleton Rockwood Rd.
Carleton, MI 48117 

Ms. Kim Weeg
Coordinator
734-654-4058
kweeg@airport.k12.mi.us  

Ms. McKenzie Swiontoniowski
Preschool Teacher 
mswiontoniowski@airport.k12.mi.us

Mr. Greg Roberts
Eyler Principal
groberts@airport.k12.mi.us


Preschool Registration Flyer

How Preschool Education Helps Brain Development

• Morning Greeting
  Whenever an adult speaks directly and personally to a preschool child, cascades
  of impulses go through the child's neurons (nerve cells), which are connected to
  one another by synapses. The repetition of these kinds of positive early interactions
  actually helps the brain reinforce the existing connections and make new ones.
  

• Fingerplay
  By a couple of months of age, babies can process the emotional contours of
  language (prosody), which means they tune in to the emotional variations in
  your voice. (In fact, toddlers can memorize nursery rhymes because rhymes
  have prosody!) As the preschool teacher raises her voice an octave and draws
  out her vowels, the child's brain responds by sending even more chemical and
  electrical impulses across the synapses. 

• Story time
  Early childhood teachers are careful to have small groups for story time so that
  preschool children are able to get involved and process information. Young children
  need real interactions in order to learn. As she reads, the teacher will use melodic
  voice tones to ensure children's involvement and learning. 
  
  
• Free play / Work time
  During free play, preschool children interact with one another. As they communicate,
  whether through beginning language or more sophisticated use of words, the neurons
  in their brains are making more connections, critical for reinforcing learning. 
  
  
• Snack
  Further opportunities for communication lead to the repetition of impulses sent
  through the brain. The more repetition that goes on, the more the brain grows sure
  in its understanding. Repetition of language sounds is crucial to brain development.
  
  
• Circle time
  As the early childhood caregiver focuses her attention on each individual child in
  the large group activity, the child must think about the topic for the day. The child's
  brain will be active as he/she retrieves from memory something special in her own
  personal history that she has learned. Each day children reap the benefits of
  preschool education.
  
  

 **Brain development information from an article in Scholastic Parent & Child, by Alice
Sterling Honig, Ph.D. April/May 1999


The Advantages of Preschool

We at Airport Schools feel the point of preschool is to teach children to understand and
respect the social structure.  

Play is very important, but the serious aspect is that we have to get along in a social
structure. In the preschool setting, ideas such as taking turns and non-violence are
reinforced in a setting with other children. It's hard for a child playing at home alone to
learn about sharing, and siblings are becoming less common. Even having one or two
siblings or playing with the same, small group of friends over and over isn't the
same as experiencing interactions with a variety of peers. 

Skills taught in preschool are skills such as language recognition, proper speech, the
alphabet, basic mathematical skills and much more.