my dd is 5 years old she is in s\k and all the suff she needs to know for grade one is unbeleavable. hear is an eg she needs to know all her voules she needs to be reading a t a levale 5 has to beable to write out sentences exc ect. when i went to school we just started to learn all this in grade 1 and 2 now its like wow a kid cant be a kid in j\k and s/k they have to know alot more compared to what i had to know when i was there age. i dont know how other schools are but my dd gose to holy cross and thats what they need to know and understand
But dd is in kindergarten and the standards are much higher than when we went to school. Technically dd is doing some algebra, technically. It's good standards are higher. They are going stuff in kindergarten that we did in first and second grade. Dd is in catholic school too and they push really hard. It's amazing to think how much she's learned in such a short time. It's just going to make them more competitive in a global economy. They still have recession and centers time. Dd and I practice counting by fives and twos to one hundred every morning along with rhyming. If we don't she complains. It's fun and learning which is the key.
I agree with others. Your spelling/typing ability makes it hard to understand. Kindergarten is now the considered what most of us were doing in 1st grade or Grade 1 as non US countries call it. DD thrived on the fast pace and "advanced" material. She is in 1st grade now and loves it all except for writing journals. Anything to do with writing she hates.
I think that most kids now attend preschool or pre-k, so they already know their colors, numbers, letters, and shapes prior to starting kindergarten. So why not teach them more advanced material, instead of having them bored going over things that they already know?
My boys were reading, doing addition and subtraction, spelling and more in kindergarten. I don't compare when I went to school with now because a lot has changed in the world since the 1970's.
My son's school is faster paced than what I experienced in elementary and junior high. Since my son is challenged and can handle it, I think it's a good thing.
Is j/k meaning like junior kindergarten and s/k meaning like senior kindergarten? I've never heard of that before. They don't have that in my son's school district.
Wow! I feel like I'm old (40's) and back when I was in school we learned to read in first grade.
Quoting PinkButterfly66:Yeah, I know. I said the same thing when my daughter was in kindergarten. When I was in school, we didn't start reading until 2nd grade.
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- luv_baby
on Feb. 16, 2013 at 8:49 PM