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He is not 6 yet he is 5 he will be six in october. He can read, write, and do basic addition. However, he is not very mature and having to sit down for a longer time and losing nap may be a big shock. His catholic school was willing to deal with it not so sure how public school is.
Send him to kindergarten. If he is already immature, it will only get worse the older he gets. In our area he would be at the normal starting age for kindergartners and would be on the older side of his class. If he were to go right to 1st grade, he would be the youngest in the class, by over a year for some of his classmates.
kinder garden in my day was adjustment period so kids got use to being away from parents in a classroom situation with guided structure by teacher. That mean when they got to where they were in real learning class they accepted it to better learn. Often it identified problems some children may have also. I am 67 and to tell you the truth I remember more of Kindergarten than say first or second grade; so it obviously made a lasting impression on me.
This is the first one I googled, but you can find first grade readiness checklists online. Try to assess your son honestly, and if his preK teacher is willing, ask her to assess him too. If you think he really is not ready, you will have some objective points to raise with the school, and hopefully, you can get them to do their own readiness analysis. If he's really not ready, tell them that it will be detrimental to his entire educational experience if they set him up for failure.
I'm not sure what it's like in NYC, but down here in Alabama, the trend is to send boys to Kindergarten at age 5 turning 6, or 6 turning 7.
If it's anything like that where you are, if you send your 5 turning 6 boy to 1st grade, he could be up to 2 years behind his peers. Unless he is naturally both smart and confident, that is a recipe for disaster.
Not to mention, if you send him to 1st grade at age 5, he will go off to college at 17.
I'd fight to keep him in Kindergarten, and pay for private if I had to.
kinder garden in my day was adjustment period so kids got use to being away from parents in a classroom situation with guided structure by teacher. That mean when they got to where they were in real learning class they accepted it to better learn. Often it identified problems some children may have also. I am 67 and to tell you the truth I remember more of Kindergarten than say first or second grade; so it obviously made a lasting impression on me.
I agree.. At least on the sentiment, if not the spelling..
Kindergarten is a social thing, not an education thing.. In addition to the points you make above, it also gets kids used to being around other kids. Many children with no siblings, this is the first time that they'll regularly be around other children.
I agree.. At least on the sentiment, if not the spelling..
Kindergarten is a social thing, not an education thing.. In addition to the points you make above, it also gets kids used to being around other kids. Many children with no siblings, this is the first time that they'll regularly be around other children.
Even 16 years ago when my daughter went to kindergarten, it was most definitely NOT a social thing. They expected you to have had at least one year of preschool, preferred 2, and MANY students were not passed into first grade from kindergarten due to academics. They were put into "extended first grade" where they were brought up to speed for insertion into first grade the next year.
This is similar to the kindergarten skill levels in my area.
If parents think that K is just singing songs, listening to stories, having free choice play time and doing fun art projects they will be sorely mistaken.
something to keep in mind,,, applies more to boys than girls..
whenever you may put/push/nudge a kid ahead.....if he's going to be the youngest kid in class,,,he also may be the smallest,,,and no boy wants to be the smallest kid in class...
if this isn't an issue,,,
also,,,,keep this in mind,,,pre-k or kindergarten is good for spoiled little brats that don't share or take what they want..
they have to follow rules,,,this is good for most kids before first grade
My mom is a retired first grade teacher. She did assessed him for me. She said academically he is fine; however, she did agree with me that he will not sit as long as expected. She also told me to put him back in private school since the public schools here are quick to label children especially those of color.
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