u/GirlOnFire112

Please delete if this isn’t the right sub for this. My daughter is 4 and 4 months old. She has been in preschool for two years now. Last year preschool was two days a week for 1 hour. This is year is two days a week two hours. Next year will be three days a week for two hours. The rest of the time she is watched by her grandma. The preschool program is run by parks and rec but also in relation to the school district.

The program she is in does kindergarten readiness assessments. I wasn’t aware of this prior to her starting (not mad at it just an interesting thing they do). The first was she did was in the fall and they told us at that one that she hit all the markers for being ready for kindergarten (she turned 4 in January). Things like shapes, numbers, letters, writing/ tracing, social skills, and motor skills. The only thing she was marked down for was needing to help more with putting toys away. We talked about it at home and worked on it. She just had a second assessment (now 4 yr 4mo) and her teacher again is saying she is ready for kindergarten. At the first assessment we were hesitant to consider early entry as she wasn’t even 4 yet and thought socially she might benefit from being with kids closer in age even if she might be educationally at the next step and we would just work on doing more education stuff at home to keep her engaged.

Now we’re 6 months older and another assessment saying she’s ready for kindergarten. Now socially I feel like she is ready. Definitely education wise she is ready. We read every day. She’s starting to ready many words on her own. We’ve started working on the Teach your kid to read in 100 lessons again. She is working on addition and subtraction. Starting to work on greater than/ less than concepts, matching, sentence structure. She has these workbooks we do together. We don’t force her into any of these things. She will come to hubby and I asking to work with her on these workbooks. Him and I are more than happy to work with her as long as she wants and don’t force her to go longer than her attention will hold.

I guess my question is should we try to push for early kindergarten entry or just try to work on more advanced skills at home and keep her in preschool next year and wait for kindergarten? The school district does have a half day program but really we’re unsure if they will allow her because of her age.

TIA!

Please delete if this isn’t the right sub for this. My daughter is 4 and 4 months old. She has been in preschool for two years now. Last year preschool was two days a week for 1 hour. This is year is two days a week two hours. Next year will be three days a week for two hours. The rest of the time she is watched by her grandma. The preschool program is run by parks and rec but also in relation to the school district.

The program she is in does kindergarten readiness assessments. I wasn’t aware of this prior to her starting (not mad at it just an interesting thing they do). The first was she did was in the fall and they told us at that one that she hit all the markers for being ready for kindergarten (she turned 4 in January). Things like shapes, numbers, letters, writing/ tracing, social skills, and motor skills. The only thing she was marked down for was needing to help more with putting toys away. We talked about it at home and worked on it. She just had a second assessment (now 4 yr 4mo) and her teacher again is saying she is ready for kindergarten. At the first assessment we were hesitant to consider early entry as she wasn’t even 4 yet and thought socially she might benefit from being with kids closer in age even if she might be educationally at the next step and we would just work on doing more education stuff at home to keep her engaged.

Now we’re 6 months older and another assessment saying she’s ready for kindergarten. Now socially I feel like she is ready. Definitely education wise she is ready. We read every day. She’s starting to ready many words on her own. We’ve started working on the Teach your kid to read in 100 lessons again. She is working on addition and subtraction. Starting to work on greater than/ less than concepts, matching, sentence structure. She has these workbooks we do together. We don’t force her into any of these things. She will come to hubby and I asking to work with her on these workbooks. Him and I are more than happy to work with her as long as she wants and don’t force her to go longer than her attention will hold.

I guess my question is should we try to push for early kindergarten entry or just try to work on more advanced skills at home and keep her in preschool next year and wait for kindergarten? The school district does have a half day program but really we’re unsure if they will allow her because of her age.

TIA!