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As far as I know and quickly checked, it should be "attends (the) kindergarten", "attend to" means something slightly different.
(quote from some language learning forum: "I would say: 'you attend school'. 'to attend to something' is used when you take care of/deal with something. You attend to work or you attend to a case/a matter etc.. you attend to children... but you don't attend TO school. (you don't deal with the school, you're just present during the lessons).")
But it wasn't accepted so far, so thanks.
You're right, I should've written it without "to". Still, I'm glad you're on duty, checking the comments to make this course better and better. Tak trzymaj :]
"Przedszkola" is plural (here: Genitive singular), "przedszkole" is singular.
What age is preschool for? I found information that it's for 2-3 year olds, and generally a child starts to go to Polish 'przedszkole' at the age of 3...
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3-6 – but it is only a real requirement to attend „zerówka” as a preparation to school. „Zerówka” is for 6 year olds and 99.9% of them are part of „przedszkole”.
For children 0-3 there is also „żłobek” but that's simply child care(day care), nothing more.
Side note: „pomyśleć” is a perfective verb, so it doesn't work with „zawsze”, accusative of „lata” is „lata”, so: „Zawsze myślałam, że dzieci chodzą do przedszkola gdy mają cztery lata”.
In the UK we have Primary School which is age 4+ iirc, but its not an accepted answer. Just want to check, is that too old for the meaning of this sentence?
Accepting 'primary school' would rather be confusing, as people not accustomed to the UK system will think of something completely different than a kindergarten, I presume.
in the us kindergarten is most likely in the primary school, and is only for ages 5-6. Preschool or nursery school (more rarely used in US) would be for ages 2-5 and is usually separate from primary school. Sometimes some preschools go up to age 6 and include kindergarten for the oldest group. I think przedszkoła would probably be best translated as preschool for americans--is that correct? And then zerowka would be like our kindergarten?
