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Lakewood’s ECEAP Preschool is now enrolling for the 2026-27 school year. ECEAP (Early Childhood Education & Assistance Program) is a free preschool program for income-eligible children ages 3 to 5 years old and their families.

The program offers play-based activities that promote reading/writing, language, math, art, science, and social skills. Please contact Desiree Mason at 360-654-2135 or dmason@lwsd.wednet.edu for more information or to see if your family qualifies.

Is your child starting kindergarten in the fall? View our recorded "Pathway to Kindergarten Information Night" video, featuring our elementary principals and Executive Director of Teaching & Learning Bryan Toutant.

Also save the date for our other Pathway to Kindergarten events: 

Third graders at English Crossing Elementary had the opportunity to walk in someone else’s shoes last week during the school’s annual Wax Museum. Students chose a significant person in history to research and did their best to dress and act like that person.

Bystanders could push the paper button next to each “exhibit” to hear a prepared presentation about their research subject. Students and other visitors learned about Sacagawea who guided Lewis and Clark, Marie Curie’s scientific discoveries, Greta Thunberg’s environmental activism, Alexander Graham Bell’s inventions, Anne Frank who went into hiding during the Holocaust, Walt Disney’s rise to fame, Clara Barton’s founding of the Red Cross, King Tut’s ancient Egyptian rule, and many more.

Join Lakewood School District and the Lakewood/Smokey Point Public Library this summer in reading The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt. Choose online or in-person discussion groups, where we will discuss the implications of smart phones in the lives of today’s youth.

Copies of the book can be placed on hold and picked up at the Lakewood/Smokey Point Library or the Lakewood Lockers. Lakewood/Smokey Point Library also has a limited number of books for immediate checkout if you call or visit in-person.