Pram skye is right some day cares have a preschool room with 4-5 year olds. I know at our centre we are constantly fully booked becasue the program is so great. The girls do ofeten suggest though that if your child has been in full itme care at the centre for alogn period that a day at another preschool helps them more at school. They can get over famialiar with the environment and staff. We have 3 private schools in town that offer hwat they call pre prep or transision and the hcildren attend form 9 till 2.30 either 5 days a week or 3. This is supposed to be a more formal structured pre school type program to get them used to the larger school environment. I can tell you know though that any good pre school program in a day care will be it hands down and the curriculum is o much richer. We have had a few moans and growns abotu how bored our kids are when they goes to transition or kindy for the first 6 months becasue they already know how to write and read and do their phonics etc.
I would also be lookign at feeder schools fomr your day care or preschool so that lakshman has some friends to follow thorugh with him. MInd you he is still a baby I cant bear to even think about sending Will off to school *L* but i know its a relaity especially in city areas to enroll early etc.

Very excited last night as Will got up on his kness and started rocking and moved forward a little. God help me he will be full on crawling in a week I reckon.I went to put a lighter w eight sleep suit on him last night as it was really warm up here too and poor little buggars feet are pushign out the end he has had a real growth spurt.\got to go he is awake bbl
B xx