The guide is a valuable tool that offers developmentally appropriate daily activities to enhance the skills needed for school readiness.  It is printed in English and Spanish by the Elgin Partnership for Early Learning (EPEL) through the sponsorship of: 

• Alignment Collaborative for Education
• Birth to Five Illinois
• Central Unit School District 301
• Centro de Información
• City of Elgin
• Community Unit School District 303
• Easterseals DuPage & Fox Valley
• Elgin Community College
• Gail Borden Public Library District
• Grand Victoria Foundation
• Kane County Health Department
• KCT Credit Union
• School District U-46
• Seigle Foundation
• Simplifying Therapy
• Streamwood Park District
• Summit School, Inc.
• U-46 Educational Foundation
• United Way of Metro Chicago
• VNA Health Care
• YWCA Elgin

Your child's preschool or day care provider may have copies of the calendar to distribute. You can also pick up a copy at Gail Borden, Bartlett, and Poplar Creek Public Libraries and many other locations in the community or download your own copy of the calendar using the links located on the right side of this page.