Early childhood word acquisition and literacy are critical to a child’s success in school and life.  Yet very few under-resourced preschoolers have adequate access to books outside of school.  We have established a preschool literacy program to address this need throughout Monterey County.


Our goal is to build personal libraries for our preschoolers.  Our approach is to visit under-resourced preschool classrooms, read a seasonal classic book to the students, provide a related activity and create a craft project to reinforce the book.  Each child is then gifted that book for their own home library.

 

We are pleased to announce that we have added 4 new preschool classes to our program since last year.  We now serve 140 students in 7 preschool classes throughout the Monterey County Area.  Our dedicated volunteers have engaged the imaginations of so many local children over just a few years!