If you are a parent of a child who will be turning 3 or 4 this year by September and want to enrol your child in a preschool by Fall - then now is the time to start your search. January to March is normally the days when schools do open houses, tours and orientations for interested new families.
Luckily I started doing this a few weeks ago and got hold of scheduled open houses and got the enrolment dates of some of the preschools in my area that I was interested in. What I found interesting though was how "competitive" this search becomes as the desired time slots and schools are limited for a growing population of small children in the community. A little homework and soul-searching is needed when you are finding a "first" school for your precious child.
I started compiling a list of preschools around the area - and hopefully it will help you too. Personally I found the initial task daunting as it was hard to find an exhaustive listing of preschools around the area. A lot of it had to be done initially by manual search (driving around town and looking, interviewing neighbors and other parents). The internet is also a tool, however, I found that not all had a web presence (surprisingly). The most you would find for some is an address and a phone number - hence, in lieu of pictures, an actual school tour would be the best advice (not good for the initial scouting though).
