Big Bend Cooperative Preschool teacher Stephanie Gregg shows the math center at the school’s new home at Immanuel Lutheran Church. On one side of the scale kids can put a weight shaped like a number, whose weight matches that number of smaller weights on the other side. This approach teaches kids number concepts more smoothly than mere memorization, Gregg said.
January 11, 2023
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Back in the game
Big Bend Cooperative Preschool re-opens in new digs
MOSES LAKE — The Big Bend Cooperative Preschool is back. The preschool, which had operated on the Big Bend Community College campus since the 1960s, was forced to shut down like so many other things in the summer of 2020. Now it’s found a new home at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Moses Lake. “We were part of the college,” said preschool Board Member Jennifer Hickock. “And then we leased a spot at the college and the college, right before COVID, canceled our lease. And so we had to find a new place to be. Of course, it was during COVID, where are you going to go? It was really hard to keep open. The previous board actually made the decision to close because there was nothing we could do.” ...