alphieb
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bazlyx said:Depends. It sounds like an interesting experiment.
Is he doing well, are most of the kids doing well?
Considering that the United States is behind in the world in the k-12 education standards it might be a good thing!
Children are very adaptable and the earliest experiences tend to make the biggest influence in life - if that experience has work in it, than its possible it can improve the childrens work ethic as they get older.
The critism of such a program would be that there might bring negative feelings about school early on and not allow 'kids to be kids'.
I'd like to hear more about how this works... its alot more ambitious than when I started school!
bandaidwoman said:I was raised in the Far East, english is my sixth language. In kindergarten I had at least one to two hours of homework (learning to write the chinese caligraphy which you need to know 50,000 characters if you want to attain college level education.) along with math. I also had to learn Malaysian since it was the official language. Kids brains are sponges. Don't worry.
If you look at countries that are doing better than the US in basic skills, you will see a rigid discipline that is mandatory...alphieb said:I was wondering if children in kindergarten should have complex homework every night and be taught to read fairly complex books at such a young age? When I was in kindergarten we just simply learned our letters and more or less played.
My son is in K and learning Spanish, reading and adding and subtracting. He also has homework every night but Friday. Is that too much pressure?
bandaidwoman said:I was raised in the Far East, english is my sixth language. In kindergarten I had at least one to two hours of homework (learning to write the chinese caligraphy which you need to know 50,000 characters if you want to attain college level education.) along with math. I also had to learn Malaysian since it was the official language. Kids brains are sponges. Don't worry.
alphieb said:That is absolutely amazing......My goodness. By being raised in the "far east" not to be noisey, but where, China or Malayia? How did your peers do with that higher education? Did they all succeed well?
I took German in high school and a little in college, but could not recite hardly anything now. I think America is trying to raise their educational standards.
It was 1978, in "farmertown", Idaho. nuff said?ngdawg said:I'm amazed you had no kindergarten. It's always been the norm here in NJ, although if you show good reason, you don't HAVE to enroll your kids (like private school, homeschooling, etc).
I took it upon myself to teach my kids reading before they started kindergarten-my son taught himself to write at about 2 1/2 by copying letters, so that when they started kindergarten, their teachers were very surprised and pleased; in fact, they sometimes were sent to first grade classrooms to read to them.
Anyway, enough bragging :mrgreen: Personally, I want and know my kids will do far better.
Back when my wife was teaching the younger children, she was also a reading specialist. I have seen her take kids that were years behind in reading skills and get them up to speed over one summer.alphieb said:I wish I would have started my six year earlier with learning his letters and to read and write. It seems he is a little behind in that area. However, math is no problem and comes easy. I don't even have to tutor him in that area. If I would have tried earlier on his reading he probably would not have been ready. Every child is different.
I think it is a good idea to start other languages ect....when their little brains are still growing, maybe it will have an impact on higher IQ and SAT scores.
UtahBill said:Back when my wife was teaching the younger children, she was also a reading specialist. I have seen her take kids that were years behind in reading skills and get them up to speed over one summer.
She uses phonics of course, and has even traveled to other states teaching teachers how to teach phonics.
Some things she stresses are reading to and with your child, and finding books that match their interests. Once they develop the basic skills and learn to like to read, there are usually no more problems in that area to be faced in the future.
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