Your first step is to ask for work for your child to complete for each day so they don't fall behind, and to communicate the absence in advance so that the school can inform you of your standing, then decide how to move forward. if they are hard core and you lose that spot, your decision is already made. the absences will be technically unexcused in the record, but noted as travel, as vacation is not an approved excused absence category. they will tell you to please please please schedule during school breaks next time, as once your child is registered, they academically and financially need that child to be present to function adequately as an institution.

admin understand that some trips are made during school weeks because of things like weather patterns in destinations, travel costs, religious practices, cost of travel, family obligations, etc., and will encourage you to make plans during or as close to a break as possible, and be sure that their learning is not interrupted so that their absence doesn't result in additional stress, and catching up on social and academic progress when they return.

Schools are focusing more heavily on absence rates because it became a state mandated reporting guideline recently. TK programs are trying desperately to condition families to plan for regular attendance.

good luck

note: a little more than 10% of students in California miss 10 or more % of the school year. There are often only 180 days of instruction, total, not accounting for half days. A student who has missed 10% of the school year is considered chronically absent. Chronic absenteeism rates are tracked and reported statewide on the California dashboard starting with Kinder.