Parent Resources - Early Learning

Learning and Growing

OSPI Early Learning supports parents as their child’s first and most important teachers with information about what children can do and learn at different stages of development. This webpage offers additional information to support parents as their children become students.

• Child Find Screening Notice
• Play
• Washington State Library - All Aboard for Kindergarten
• "Kid-Approved" videos
• Parenting videos
• OSPI Parent Engagement
• PBS Parents
• Colorín Colorado    En español
• Reading Rockets     
  • Reading tips for parents 
  • Reading tips for parents of children with disabilities
  • Reading tips in other languages 

Preparing for Kindergarten

Children love to look forward to the exciting big-step of starting school! To start kindergarten in the fall, your child must be five years old on or before the end of August. Every spring, Kindergarten registration is taking place at your student's neighborhood school. Please see this webpage for more information.

WaKIDS

As children enter Kindergarten, Wenatchee Schools welcome students and parents to their new community! Within the first days of school, Kindergarten students and their parents learn about WaKIDS. Click here to access our WaKIDS webpage.

Other Supportive Resources

• Washington State Department of Early Learning
  • Early Learning and Development Guidelines - Birth through 3rd Grade
• THRIVE Washington
• OSPI Early Learning Support
• North Central Regional Library online resources to support learning.
  • Get your free Library Card today!
  • Wenatchee Public Library
  • Daily literacy-building activities to share with your child | Actividades diarias de alfabetización para compartir con tu hijo. To access the calendar version click here.
  • 100 books every child should hear before Kindergarten | y 25 Libros para leer con su hijo antes del Kinder  

This page last reviewed on March 3, 2025. Please contact Karen Allen with comments.