ALLENTOWN, Pa. — April 21 is National Kindergarten Day.
The day highlights the importance of early childhood education and learning.
69 News visited one Allentown classroom to see how they’re celebrating the holiday.
“We like to have fun in Kindergarten,” said Jessica Hughes, a Kindergarten teacher at Jackson Early Childhood Center.
Each day, Hughes’ classroom is full of excitement from the rainbow of colors to the lessons themselves.
“We do a lot of play-based learning throughout our curriculum. It’s the foundation for the rest of your learnings,” Hughes explained.
Student Quentin Young has been keeping his eye on the classroom incubator where he and his classmates are studying the life cycle of baby chicks. It’s a spring tradition in the Allentown School District.
“Day one it looked like a regular egg with yolk. The start of the second day it starts to form a little bit of its veins. On hatch day it’s going to look like a cute baby chick like this,” Young told us.
For Hughes, shaping the minds of the next generation comes naturally. She told us she has wanted to be a teacher ever since she was a child and watching her kids grow is rewarding.
“When they start, they are these very rambunctious lovable little kids and then they turn into students by the end of the year. We do a lot of work to get them there but it’s a wonderful transition,” Hughes stated.