A preschool also known as nursery school, pre-primary school, playschool; kindergarten (outside the US and UK) is an educational establishment or learning space offering early childhood education to children, usually between the ages of 2 and 5, prior to the commencement of compulsory education at primary school. They may be privately operated or government run, and one option is to subsidize the costs. The grades include daycare, preschool, pre-kindergarten and kindergarten.

Terminology varies by country. In some European countries the term "kindergarten" refers to formal education of children classified as "ISCED level 0" - with one or several years of such education being compulsory - before children start primary school at "ISCED level 1".

The following terms may be used for educational establishments for this age group:

In an age when school was restricted to children who had already learned to read and write at home, there were many attempts to make school accessible to orphans or to the children of women who worked in factories.

In 1779, Johann Friedrich Oberlin and Louise Scheppler founded in Strassbourg an early establishment for caring for and educating pre-school children whose parents were absent during the day. At about the same time, in 1780, similar infant establishments were established in Bavaria In 1802, Pauline zur Lippe established a preschool center in Detmold. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What is the focus of the article?
2. What is the name of the school?
3. Is it known as a different name?
4. What is that?
5. Are they all state run?
6. Can they be owned by private entities?
7. Do children have to be able to read and write to attend?
8. Are they all state run?
9. What ages attend?
10. What grades attend?
11. Who is credited for founding early childhood education?
12. In what year?
13. In what city was it founded?
14. Why was it created, for whos benefit?
15. What was established in Detmold?
16. Who founded it?
17. What year was this?
18. What county was Detmold in?
Answer: 1. Schooling for children between 2-5
2. preschool
3. it can be
4. nursery school, pre-primary school, playschool; kindergarten
5. no
6. Yes
7. No
8. No
9. 2 - 5
10. daycare, preschool, pre-kindergarten and kindergarten.
11. Johann Friedrich Oberlin and Louise Schepple
12. 1779
13. Strassbourg
14. children whose parents were absent during the day
15. a preschool center
16. Pauline zur Lippe
17. 1802
18. Bavari

CHAPTER III.

FRANCO

Franco followed the boys all that forenoon, as they went back and forth for their wood. At dinner, they did not say any thing about him to the farmer, because they supposed that he would go away, when they came in and left him, and that they should see no more of him in the afternoon. But when Jonas went out, after dinner, to get the old General, to harness him for work again, he found Franco lying snugly in the General's stall, under the crib.

At night, therefore, he told the farmer about him. The farmer said that he was some dog that had strayed away from his master; and he told Jonas to go out after supper and drive him away. Josey begged his uncle to keep him, but his aunt said she would not have a dog about the house. She said it would cost as much to keep him as to keep a sheep, and that, instead of bringing them a good fleece, a dog was good for nothing, but to track your floors in wet weather, and keep you awake all night with his howling.

So the farmer told Jonas to go out after supper, and drive the dog away.

"Let us give him some supper first, father," said Oliver.

"No," said his father; "the more you give him, the more he won't go away. I expect now, you've fooled with him so much, that it will be hard to get him off, at any rate." What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who is Franco?
2. Did he live at his home?
3. What did the farmer want to do with him?
4. Did anyone want to keep the dog?
5. Who?
6. What did his aunt think?
7. why not?
8. would the dog be useful?
9. Did Oliver want to make the dog leave immediately?
10. What did he want to do first?
11. Did Oliver's fatehr agree with this idea?
12. Why did he think it would be a problem?
13. When was Franco following the boys?
14. Did they tell the farmer immediately?
15. Why not?
16. Was the dog gone after dinner?
17. Where was he?
18. Who found him there?
Answer: 1. A dog
2. No
3. Drive him away
4. Yes
5. Josey
6. she didn't want to have a dog about the house
7. it would cost as much to keep him as to keep a sheep
8. no
9. No
10. Give him some supper
11. No
12. Because the more you give him, the more he won't go away.
13. all that forenoon
14. No
15. because they supposed that he would go away
16. No
17. in the General's stall, under the crib.
18. Jonas

What kind of pets do people have in your country? Dogs? Cats? How about a duck, hippo or lion? Here are two cases of animal owners with unusual pets.

Barrie Hayman has a pet duck called Star. Barrie adopted him after his brothers and sisters stayed away from him at birth. Barrie, a duck breeder, realized the little duck needed special attention. So he began taking Star with him everywhere he went. "I would put him in my pocket while I did my shopping," said Barrie. Now, at five months, Star is too big for Barrie's pocket, but the two are still _ . They watch sports together and even share a drink together. Barrie said, "He is one fantastic duck. I've never known any like him." Star even has his own Facebook page, with more than 2,000 Facebook friends.

Then there's the case of Tonie and Shirley Joubert in South Africa. They live with their pet hippo, Jessica. Tonie saved Jessica from floodwaters when she was only a day old. Jessica lives outside their riverside house, but she knows how to open the kitchen door, and often goes there for a snack. Tonie recently said, "I don't know whether Jessica sees me as a hippo or whether she sees herself as a human." Shirley is more certain, "Jessica sees herself as our child and I see Jessica as my daughter. I can't imagine my life without Jessica." Jessica is free to leave, and often visits wild hippos that live nearby. But she always returns home at night. Jessica's website notes that she has three hippo boyfriends, but one in particular, Fred, is her favorite. They often go grazing together and Fred has recently moved onto the Jouberts' house as well. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who was Star?
2. 'what does Barrie Hayman do for a living?
3. What did he do with Star when he went shopping?
4. How old is STar now?
5. What kind of pet do Tonie and Shirley Joubert have?
6. What is the hippo's name?
7. What's the setting for the Joubert's house?
8. What country is it in?
9. Can Jessica leave if she wants to?
10. Does she?
11. How many boyfriends does she have?
12. What's the name of her favorite?
13. What do they do together?
Answer:
1. a pet duck
2. a duck breeder
3. put him in his pocket
4. unknown
5. hippo
6. Jessica
7. riverside
8. South Africa
9. Yes
10. she always returns home at night
11. three
12. Fred
13. go grazing