{"id":504188,"date":"2026-01-09T17:15:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T17:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/504188\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T17:15:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T17:15:17","slug":"kindergarten-bootcamp-for-phoenix-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/504188\/","title":{"rendered":"Kindergarten Bootcamp for Phoenix Families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.signalsaz.com\/audio-articles\/player\/audio-article-158544\" onclick=\"_paq.push([&#039;trackEvent&#039;, &#039;Article&#039;, &#039;Article Playlist&#039;, &#039;\/\/audio-articles\/player\/audio-article-158544&#039;]);\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Open Audio Article Player<\/a> \t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.signalsaz.com\/author\/City+of+Phoenix\" onclick=\"_paq.push([&#039;trackEvent&#039;, &#039;Author Byline View&#039;, &#039;City of Phoenix&#039;]);\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">City of Phoenix<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n<tr>\n<td id=\"amazon-polly-audio-tab\">\n<p>Text to speech audio articles made possible by CAST11 Talking Glass Media<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<p>Phoenix Public Library invites families with children entering kindergarten in fall 2026 to participate in Kindergarten Bootcamp, a free, interactive school readiness program designed to help children and their caregivers feel confident and prepared for the transition to school.\n<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-158546\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/shutterstock_2259586135-1.jpg\" alt=\"Kindergarten children playing with colorful building blocks. Healthy learning environment. Learning through play.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"665\"  \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Kindergarten Bootcamp is a seven-week series that meets once a week and gives families a preview of the kindergarten experience. Through hands-on activities, children and caregivers learn together while building the social, academic, and classroom skills essential for school success. Each session encourages families to grow, learn, and play together in a supportive, engaging environment.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"gofollow\" data-track=\"MjMzLDk3LDEsMTIw\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sunburstpatios.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-09-23-at-11.41.30\u202fAM.png\" width=\"1000px\" height=\"400px\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Families receive free take-home tools and activities to continue learning at home. At the end of the series, participants are invited to celebrate their accomplishments at a special Kindergarten Bootcamp Graduation.\n<\/p>\n<p>The program is offered at a variety of dates, times, and locations across the city. Registration is required, and families who register are expected to attend all seven weeks.\n<\/p>\n<p>Families whose children are not entering kindergarten in fall 2026 are encouraged to explore Tools for School, Phoenix Public Library\u2019s school readiness program for children ages 3\u20135 and their caregivers.\n<\/p>\n<p>Support for early literacy programs is provided by a grant from First Things First, which partners with families and communities to give all Arizona children the opportunity to arrive at kindergarten healthy and ready to succeed.\n<\/p>\n<p>Program highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For children entering kindergarten in fall 2026 and their caregivers<\/li>\n<li>Meets once a week for seven weeks<\/li>\n<li>Builds social, academic, and classroom readiness skills<\/li>\n<li>Includes free take-home tools and activities each week<\/li>\n<li>Concludes with a special Kindergarten Bootcamp Graduation<\/li>\n<li>Registration required<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To learn more and view available sessions, visit phoenixpubliclibrary.org.\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more stories from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.signalsaz.com\/category\/phoenix-4\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Phoenix Area<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.signalsaz.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Signals A Z.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.signalsaz.com\/subscribe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-157925 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/SignalsAZ_F2KTopBanner_SubscriberDriveV13-1.jpg\" alt=\"F1RST2KNOW banner, with child playing in snow on the left and people celebrating with confetti on the right \" width=\"1200\" height=\"450\"   loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open Audio Article Player City of Phoenix Text to speech audio articles made possible by CAST11 Talking Glass&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":504189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-504188","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-phoenix","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115866273616176987","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}