Does you 4 year old child know how to write the letters of the alphabet or numbers? Does your 5 year old know how to write letters of the alphabet… or numbers? Is your child a male or female?
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kindergarten readiness – get your child ready
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Posted in Kindergarten information
Most important are functional and social skills- eg- able to climb stool and get drink, put on shoes, communicate to teacher and other children, cutting with scissors (age 4+) -how to line up and understand and follow rules, listening and toleration of other students-sharing , taking turns-basic table manners, staying on one task longer than may be desired.
Academics are now pushed over the more important developmental skills, the latter when well developed make academic learning much easier otherwise there can be years of struggle, adhd diagnosis, social skill struggles etc..
Actually even if a child recieves little academic until age 10! – by age 13 the child can still reasonably be in same place!
All kids are different and can not be compared to others. When my middle son was 5 and starting kindergarten he wrote all the letters in the alphabet capital and lower case, wrote and recognized his first and last name, count to 20, wrote and recognized numbers up to 10. I have a four year old daughter in preschool and she just learned the letter A! The preschool teacher says not to worry she will learn at her own pace and that she is not delayed. But they do like them to recognize their own first name and count to 10. We have six children five are boys. They are all extremely different from each other.
I’m a Montessori preschool teacher (have taught for 18 years) doing a homebased cooperative program. I aim to prepare my preschoolers for the requirements of our public school in Culver City, CA. They need to be be kindergarten ready. full day program, self sufficient to a certain extent, know letters, numbers, write name, beginning reading. Basically, our curriculum standards have changed because of state testing. Kindergarten is 1st grade curriculum now.
Because I wanted to have some part in her education, I taught my daughter to read before she entered kindergarten. Though she excelled in kindergarten and first grade because of it, I feel as though she became complacent and didn’t try very hard. Now that she’s about to enter fifth grade, she struggles because of her lack of work ethic stemming, I think, from her not having to try very hard in the beginning. Just some food for thought.
My son is starting kindergarten in a few weeks. He knows how to write his first and last name, our address and phone number, upper and lowercase letters. He can count over 100, knows colors, shapes, many sight words, and basic addition and subtraction. Body parts, differences in things like big/bigger/biggest, first, second, third.
There is other stuff, but that is off the top of my head.
Every child is different, I wouldn’t worry about it. Preschool helped a lot! The summer program he is in right now is education based. They have work each day when they get in (write X word 10 times), things like that. She started off by giving him an assessment to see where he was, then went from there.
Hope that helps
My 4 year old daughter recognizes all of the letters and knows most of the sounds for them. She is able to right 90% of the letters. She recognizes numbers 1-10
My 3 year old daughter recognized 95% of the letters and can write 50% of them. She also knows most of the sounds for them.
my little sister is going into 1st grade next year but when she was going into kindergarden all she basically new how to do was count up to lik 10 but she messed up alot but now at the end she knows her abc’s and she knows how to wright …she even writes better then my brother whos going into 2nd grade lol
The most important thing they should know is how to spend time without constant one to one attention from an adult.
My kids could both read and write by 4 years old. But lots of kids can’t. Knowing how to cope socially is FAR more important than where they are academically.
There is an excellent answer to this question from a few days ago. It’s back about on page 3 of yahoo Answers. The title is “Want some free advice about Kindergarten”.
Thier ABC’s because in the future they would not be able to read and write
My 4 year old sister doesn’t even know her ABC’s so obviously she can’t writr it or read them ( #’s as well )