What's the difference between kindergarten and preschool?

Kindergarten


Definition:

  • (n.) A school for young children, conducted on the theory that education should be begun by gratifying and cultivating the normal aptitude for exercise, play, observation, imitation, and construction; -- a name given by Friedrich Froebel, a German educator, who introduced this method of training, in rooms opening on a garden.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The MontrĂ©al Longitudinal Study of Disruptive Boys, an experimental study, was designed to understand boys who were considered disruptive in kindergarten.
  • (2) Subjects were 464 children from two kindergartens and three primary schools, Grades 1 through 6 who completed these three types of tasks.
  • (3) Age was a critical factor, with significant improvements as age increased between the kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 3 and Grade 6 students.
  • (4) In 20 kindergartens of Baja 1462 children between 3 and 6 yr of age were investigated.
  • (5) 72 pairs of kindergarten children were each given a brief play session involving an object with which only 1 child could play at a time.
  • (6) Development in time of unconscious trace reactions as well as a change in the time of reproduction of verbal material in natural conditions was studied by the conditioned reflex to time method on 107 school children aged from six to seven years and on 35 subjects of the same age from a kindergarten.
  • (7) Infants between the ages of 3 and 24 months and kindergarten children aged from 2 to 5 years were tested.
  • (8) A total of 124 preschool children aged 5 to 6 years attending kindergartens or placed into children's homes were subjected to neurologic and neuropsychologic examinations.
  • (9) To assess the influence of housing upon the middle ear status in young children in the form of secretory otitis media (SOM), 210 children not looked after in kindergarten or municipal day-care were investigated.
  • (10) They were selected by a method to form a representative sample of all West Jerusalem compulsory kindergarten classes in 1971.
  • (11) Another ten infected people were found during separate investigations of outbreaks in a Kindergarten and in two families.
  • (12) Kindergarten and adult subjects were trained to remember the locations of 4 objects.
  • (13) There were no expanding childcare benefits or universal pre-kindergarten to deal with the influx of women in the workplace.
  • (14) A seroepidemiological survey was carried out in 5 kindergartens in Shanghai to determine the prevalence and risk factors of HBV infection in 520 preschool children, aged 2-6.
  • (15) Subjects were disadvantaged, regular, and special education kindergarten children (N = 140), and mentally retarded children (N = 20).
  • (16) Eight kindergarten classroom teachers with high generic teaching skill competence taught a 6-week overhand throwing unit to the children in their intact classes.
  • (17) Preschool and kindergarten programs have changed focus from an emphasis on play to an emphasis on formal academics.
  • (18) The Ss, eight males and eight females at each grade level from kindergarten through sixth, were read descriptions of other children.
  • (19) A new instrument was devised to investigate receptive phoneme-sequencing knowledge of a group of normally articulating children of kindergarten and elementary school age.
  • (20) Wenzhou, a city in the wealthy eastern province of Zhejiang, has banned all Christmas activities in schools and kindergartens, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

Preschool


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Both startle amplitude and onset latency showed significantly greater facilitation in the preschool children than in the 8-year-olds and adults.
  • (2) of age and based upon information about the dietary habits of the child could thus be of value to prevent caries in the preschool child.
  • (3) Because of the high rates of employment of mothers, a large and increasing number of preschool children receive regular care from someone else.
  • (4) Telemarketers, accountants, sports referees, legal secretaries, and cashiers were found to be among the most likely to lose their jobs, while doctors, preschool teachers, lawyers, artists, and clergy remained relatively safe.
  • (5) A detailed account of the progress of a preschool child learning to steer a powered wheelchair via a mouth-operated joystick is described.
  • (6) This observation suggests that biotype I may be related to the higher incidence of dental caries in our preschool children.
  • (7) Twelve non-atopic and 27 atopic preschool children were studied to determine the effect of pertussis booster vaccination on cutaneous histamine sensitivity and IgE antibody response to the naturally-occurring ragweed aeroallergen.
  • (8) Derived patterns of discourse between female adults and preschool children confirmed expectations that most discourse is based upon three fundamental speech act pairings: question--answer, statement--reply, and directive--acknowledgement.
  • (9) Forty handicapped preschoolers were randomly assigned to two language teaching methods (i.e., Milieu Teaching and the Communication Training Program).
  • (10) At day-care centers in which there was a second case during the follow-up period, there was a high prevalence of colonization with H. influenzae type b in both patient and nonpatient groups of preschool children.
  • (11) The development of cognitive and social abilities of preschool children in Basle is discussed.
  • (12) The main effects and interactions of speech and gesture in combination with quantitative models of performance showed the following similarities in information processing between preschoolers and adults: (1) referential evaluation of gestures occurs independently of the evaluation of linguistic reference; (2) speech and gesture are continuous, rather than discrete, sources of information; (3) 5-year-olds and adults combine the two types of information in such a way that the least ambiguous source has the most impact on the judgment.
  • (13) Preschool teachers from four different day care centers assessed four-and five-year-old children for deficits in gross-motor skill and self-concept.
  • (14) A nonverbal boy, enrolled in a special education preschool, was taught to imitate reliably six words in 46 15-minute sessions.
  • (15) Improved vitamin A nutriture alone could prevent 1.3-2.5 million of the nearly 8 million late infancy and preschool-age child deaths that occur each year in the highest-risk developing countries.
  • (16) This report reviews the literature on distance visual acuity in the preschool child.
  • (17) The domain of preschool testing has received considerable attention in recent years.
  • (18) The significantly higher serum 20:5 n-3 and 22:6 n-3 percentages in the preschool children should be due to direct consumption of these two n-3 fatty acids from fish intake.
  • (19) On the basis of the bulk of the available literature, it appears that in talking or reasoning about temporal sequences, preschoolers lack bidirectional flexibility and are limited to forward order, antecedent toward consequent movement.
  • (20) A total of 124 preschool children aged 5 to 6 years attending kindergartens or placed into children's homes were subjected to neurologic and neuropsychologic examinations.

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