In Ontario. They are gradually move to full day JK and SK. Kids can start Junior Kindergarten through the school board in Sept as young as 3 3/4 as in they will turn 4 before Dec 31. For Senior Kindergaren they start at 4 and turn 5 by Dec 31. That leaves those of us doing daycare caring just for kids that are 3 1/2 and younger if we want full day kids. It also means it is hard when moms go back after maternity leave with the second because often there is only one more year of care for the older one till they start school. They then need to look for a caregiver in their school area so the child can be bussed to their school. There is a waiting list for school based care. For those that did JK/SK care it was a half day of school and often they charged the parents pretty close to the regular full day rate and then of course more on school holidays. Other than the hassles of getting them back and forth to school or bus stop the pay was good. Now we have just babies. The biggest thing I find with having only under 3 is that when I do a circletime I am much more the performer as half my group doesn't even talk let alone sing along. I have had to simply things over the years to the point it doens't seem like teaching anymore. In Ontario you can have 5 kids of any age mix. With an agency they have age restrictions of 2 under 2 and 3 under 3 and your own kids count so a mom home with her own baby and toddler can only have one other child that isn't in school if she is with an agency. Privately your own kids don't count so at least you can have 3 daycare children. But since the age mix doesn't apply we just take two more under 3 and have our group of 5. To me it works better because we are all on the same page doing the same things and I am not torn between babies and school agers. No more clock watching to meet buses.