Chancy & Bruce Forms Coming Home This Week
Dear Parents, 

Chancy and Bruce forms will be sent home in your child's bag this week, and are due by Friday, December 9. Although Chancy and Bruce testing is optional, we highly recommend it for ages 3-5. Also, if you are planning to enroll your child at Grace Christian Elementary School next year, Chancy and Bruce testing is required for acceptance. If your current Transitional Kindergarten student, participated in Chancy and Bruce testing last school year in January 2016, they do not need to retake it this year.

Testing takes place during normal school hours. Children are walked by a Preschool Aide to Room 112 where several tables are set up to accommodate up to 8 at a time. Testing is one on one with a representative from Chancy and Bruce. The Preschool Aide remains in the room with all children and adults, the entire time. These are not new protocols but have always been in place. 
Important Dates:
Forms & Payment* due: Friday, December 9, 2016  *checks not cashed until testing 
Testing Dates at GCS: January 3-6, 2017 
Developmental Workshop: Wednesday, January 18, 6:30 p.m., GCC Worship Center
School Readiness
child reading
School Readiness is defined as the "ability to cope, learn, and achieve without undue stress." Memorizing a list of facts is not the same as having the developmental processing skills and maturation needed for success in school. School Readiness and intellectual capacity (I.Q.) do not necessarily correlate. Each child is a unique human being who grows and develops at his/her own individual rate. 

Chancy and Bruce provides a 30-minute individualized, criterion-referenced screening. This means your child will be asked to perform age appropriate tasks in the skill areas of: 
  • Gross Motor Fine Motor 
  • Visual Discrimination 
  • Visual Memory 
  • Auditory Discrimination 
  • Auditory Memory 
  • Receptive Language 
  • Expressive Language 
  • Reasoning Comprehension 
  • Social-Emotional Maturity 
Results will be given out at the Developmental Workshop (Parents only), Wednesday, January 18, at  6:30 p.m. A representative will go over all the results and what they mean to you, including how to interpret the scores your child received, and why the developmental approach to learning is so important for your child. 

Chancy and Bruce screening is required for entrance into the Grace Christian Elementary Kindergarten Program. 
Facts About Chancy and Bruce
Founded in early 1980's Assessed over 135,000 children since 1984 and has completed two longitudinal studies Serves over 250 early childhood centers in the So. CA area. All screening personnel have degrees in education and are trained in the assessment of children Results of screening will give parents critical information in how their child learns, what type of play enhances learning, and how to begin to look at school readiness 

For more information about Chancy and Bruce, visit their website by clicking the link below: Chancy and Bruce Website 
What do Kindergarten Teachers Say? 
  
Chancy & Bruce recently asked Kindergarten teachers to respond to questions on readiness. Below are a few of their responses:   

"More often it is the younger child in my class who is asked to repeat."

"Social-Emotional maturity is very important in looking at readiness."

"Boys with summer/fall birthdays seem to fall behind quickly."

"I would rather have enrichment activities for the 'very ready' child than watch a child struggle and not want to come to school."

One teacher stated, "Children are born when they are ready, creep when they are ready, walk when they are ready, talk when they are ready, but start school when they are told to."

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