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.
Still others advocate screening four-year-olds who may be ready for school for early entry, despite a fifth birthday after the statutory deadline. All states require children to turn five in the year they enter kindergarten, however, and no state has a minimum entrance age of six. The states differ only on when during the school year a child must have had his fifth birthday, from July 1 in Indiana to January 1 in Connecticut and Vermont. ISSUES RAISED BY CHANGING KINDERGARTEN MINIMUM AGE. We did not find any information regarding raising the minimum age for kindergarten from five to six.