Everybody likes the smell of vanilla. Everybody but bugs, that is. Dilute 1 tablespoon vanilla extract with 1 cup water and wipe the mixture on your exposed skin to discourage mosquitoes, blackflies, and ticks.
To begin kindergarten in the state of Illinois, a child should be 5 years old on or before September 1 of the kindergarten year and live within the boundaries of the school district.
Confidence votes 1.9K. Children begin elementary school at age 5 when they enter kindergarten. Most elementary schools go up to 5th grade, and most kids are 11 by the time they finish that grade. But some elementary schools go all the way up to 6th grade so there are kids up to age 12. Then there are even a few elementary schools that only go up to 4th grade so the oldest kids are only 10.