The Bear Creek School Hosts How to Prepare Your Child for Kindergarten

REDMOND, Wash. - Jan. 23, 2020 - PRLog -- Kindergarten is a new (and exciting) chapter in a child's life! Spend the morning learning how to encourage your child's physical, emotional, social, and intellectual growth at home. Bear Creek's V.P. for Academic Affairs Karen Blankenbeckler will also show you how to identify various factors that indicate kindergarten-readiness.

Bear Creek is excited to host Tools for Success: How to Prepare Your Child for Kindergarten on Wednesday, February 5, 2020, at our Bear Creek Preschool (19315 NE 95th St., Redmond, WA). Doors open at 8:30 a.m. for coffee and refreshments, and the presentation begins at 9:00 a.m. This seminar is free and open to the public.

Karen Blankenbeckler is one of the founding members of Bear Creek's teaching faculty and as the V.P. for Academic Affairs oversees the academic program from preschool through grade 12. She has served more than 25 years in steadfast leadership and has made major contributions to the development and success of the curricular and co-curricular programs at Bear Creek. She holds a B.S. Elementary Education with a concentration in Early Childhood Development from Oregon State University and an M.A. Curriculum and Instruction from Lesley University.

Register online at https://www.tbcs.org/success.

Tools for Success is a seminar series at which Bear Creek faculty will speak on a variety of parenting and academic topics. These sessions focus on subjects ranging from preschool to college planning.

About The Bear Creek School
Founded in 1988, in Redmond, Washington, The Bear Creek School provides a challenging academic curriculum taught from a Christian worldview. Our graduates qualify for acceptance into the finest colleges and universities and are prepared to engage the world with wisdom, compassion, and courage.

Celebrating over 30 years and recognized as a 2014 National Blue Ribbon School, Bear Creek serves students from the greater Eastside and is housed on two campuses. Redmond Campus on Union Hill serves kindergarten to grade 12 students. Valley Campus, also in Redmond, serves preschool students. The Bear Creek School is accredited by the Northwest Association of Independent Schools and Cognia (formerly AdvancED).