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Preschool - how big of a deal is...
How big of a deal is missing a week of preschool? It's not a big deal, right?
K starts on Aug 22nd and we need to take a trip about a month later.
Heaven help us. Traveling with Ana-zilla will be a *treat.* Three hours of, "Ana want down. Pease. Down. whaaaa!"
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Re: Preschool - how big of a deal is...
She should be fine, however being a teacher I hate it when any kiddo misses school! Sometimes, even in kindergarten and 4th grade (which is what I taught) when a student misses just one day, its like they are playing catch up the whole rest of the week It was 10x worse when they were gone for an extended time, like a whole week!
That being said, with PreK, I would just ask her teacher what skills they might be working on (like the what letter of the week, number, etc) so when you have some down time, work with her a little on those skills.
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I'm not terribly worried about her missing out on skills. She actually meets the requirements to go to kindergarten except that she doesn't know how to tie shoe laces. I'm more sending her for the social aspect. Focusing on directions, interacting with others, listening to the teacher, etc. She' also misses the cutoff each year, so she'll have another year of preschool next year. I should have added that info.
I just kind of wondered if I was going to tick the teacher off. lol!
DH's grandfather is in hospice and it will probably be the last trip where the girls see him alive, so... kind of important. (albeit challenging.)
I'm curious as to what these are?!! I realize we're far away, but that statement just peaked my curiosity. Would you mind sending them to me via FB or email? brandonmeganw at gmail dot com. Thanks!!!
Obviously spending time with family is important and a priority. Katen seems like a smart cookie so she should be able to pick right back up on routines and all that after being gone.
Mrs.BWilliams- I'm not sure what MrsReem has from a parent's side of it, but as far as "requirements" for kindergarten from the schools, there are really any specific ones, except being 5 by September 5.
It is recommended that students can say and recognize most of the 52 letters (upper and lower case), write their name, and count to 30. If they don't know ALL letters, no worries, they will learn during the year! If they know most of these letters, next step is to move on to the sounds they make. Also another biggie in kindergarten is sorting by like things. So sorting things by shape, size, color, etc is a big skill in kindergarten. Also, if the child can write their names and is using all capital letters, the next phase of that would be to have them start writing using one upper and the rest lower case. This is a very difficult skill for students and is something that is worked on from day 1 of kindergarten.
Again, MrsReem I didn't mean to come off rude or like a school nazi. It was just my teacher side of me coming out!
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Don't worry about it - I'll find them if they're out there. Thank you Google.