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At 12:00 noon on July 24, 1970, Rappahannock County’s Title 1 summer program came to an end. This program, funded by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, provided three weeks of readiness activities for children who would be entering the first grade in the Fall of 1970 and who had not previously had kindergarten experiences. About 75 children took advantage of the program.
The program had a three-fold purpose. The major aim was one of identification. The activities were structured so that the children’s strengths and weaknesses could be assessed in order to help in developing a program geared to the needs of the individual child.
The second aim of the program was one of orientation. The children explored the school in which they will spend so much time. They learned how to go through a cafeteria line, how to play in the gymnasium, how to ride a school bus, and how to find their way around the building. This limited period of orientation enables the children to become familiar with his environment in a relaxed atmosphere so that there is little fear when they come in the fall when all 800 elementary students descend on Rappahannock County Elementary School. The third aspect of the program blends and intermingles with the other two aids. This is readiness experiences. The children worked with colors, numbers, letters, and
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