Gone are the days of kindergarten as an extended playtime with the alphabet and number games sprinkled in.
When children go to school this fall, they’ll learn how syllables and sounds come together to create words, count by tens to 100 and do simple math problems.
Some will attend a full day of school for the first time.
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