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.
Those would be 5 year olds. Some go to preschool first, usually at the age of 4. Kindergarten in California is 5 by December 2. They can start Pre-K at the age of four or five, but that year is just optional. Kindergarten is the first required year of school, which children start at the age of five or six.