I have a child in my care who will be going to a different school district than any other child I've had in my care yet. She just had her Kindergarten registration this week, and in any other school the children are required to take an entrance test, showing they know everything required for Kindergarten entrance. This school is very top notch academically and expect a lot of the children, so I was expecting a very detailed, difficult test showing that she is completely 100% ready for school. Turns out they didn't give a test at all. In fact, they gave a letter to each family, telling what they will learn in Kindergarten. Every last thing in that list is stuff that children learn in preschool. This girl in my care who will be going to that school is way beyond those concepts. They will "be learning their numbers and to rote count..." She recognizes numbers up to 20, and rote counts to 100, counts by 10's to 100. Knows every one of her letters and which is uppercase and which is lowercase, knows all their sounds, etc. It also mentioned learning their basic colors... seriously?! Most children learn their colors by age 2 or 2 1/2! Learning left to right progression.... this is covered in a child's very first couple months in preschool (around age 3). There's several other things on the list, and every bit of it is usually what a child learns around age 3 or 4. This girl can do simple addition and subtraction already, tells time to the hour, knows the names of each coin, her address, phone number (with area code), birthday (month/day/year), and so much more.
She is going to be SOOO bored in Kindergarten. She's one who has to be challenged with new things or becomes bored, sulky, and "gets creative" in a not so good way. She is very very smart about academic things and things in life. And when she's not challenged, she becomes lazy and doesn't try to do a good job. She gets bored with it and just gets sloppy. I'm afraid that if she spends all of Kindergarten learning what she has known for a couple years at the least, she will get used to not having to try and then when school does become a little harder, she'll be so used to having it easy and being lazy with it, that she won't care to try anymore. She'll be so used to knowing everything already.
She is going to be SOOO bored in Kindergarten. She's one who has to be challenged with new things or becomes bored, sulky, and "gets creative" in a not so good way. She is very very smart about academic things and things in life. And when she's not challenged, she becomes lazy and doesn't try to do a good job. She gets bored with it and just gets sloppy. I'm afraid that if she spends all of Kindergarten learning what she has known for a couple years at the least, she will get used to not having to try and then when school does become a little harder, she'll be so used to having it easy and being lazy with it, that she won't care to try anymore. She'll be so used to knowing everything already.
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