All Day Kindergarten: Now Can We Learn?
Maryland has now begun a full day kindergarten and people are worried that play time is over. According to an article in the Baltimore Sun:
You have to be joking! It is stressing them out to get this accomplished? I understand that my children are brilliant;) but I think this is an easily accessible goal. I am also shocked that there is an all day kindergarten program that doesn't expect them to be reading at the end.
The need for programs like this make me seriously doubt the teaching ability of these teachers. There is a mention that there will also be homework. I guess I wonder what these teachers are doing to teach. You have a 5 or 6 year old for a full day and still need them to take home work for their parents to teach them how to do? Though it does seem that they are doing an all day program to allow for some individual teaching. You would think that would be the time that the remainder of the students could be working on homework.
I think this just proves that more on its own doesn't fix the system. More money, more time with out a new approach obviously isn't going to be successful so you are wasting the money and the time.
She has only nine months to get her 5- and 6-year-olds to identify the sequential property of numbers using the calendar, learn the alphabet, recognize letter sounds, learn how to sort by color and number, and learn to share and play nice with one another.
You have to be joking! It is stressing them out to get this accomplished? I understand that my children are brilliant;) but I think this is an easily accessible goal. I am also shocked that there is an all day kindergarten program that doesn't expect them to be reading at the end.
The need for programs like this make me seriously doubt the teaching ability of these teachers. There is a mention that there will also be homework. I guess I wonder what these teachers are doing to teach. You have a 5 or 6 year old for a full day and still need them to take home work for their parents to teach them how to do? Though it does seem that they are doing an all day program to allow for some individual teaching. You would think that would be the time that the remainder of the students could be working on homework.
I think this just proves that more on its own doesn't fix the system. More money, more time with out a new approach obviously isn't going to be successful so you are wasting the money and the time.
Labels: education
posted by NerdMom at
6:47 PM
1 Comments:
I don't think all day kindergarten is the answer. My oldest took a year od public preschool in Maryland and then went on to kindergarten. He had speech problems. However, It was no bad.
Then, He had 1st grade. He had 1st grade twice.
I told them when I moved here to Florida that he was NOT ready for 1st grade. yes, He achieved high in kindergarten but I could tell.
He was just not ready. I don't think he was ready for schooling until he was 7.
Then Suddenly, While it was summer vacation he bloomed into a very great kid that suddenly seemed to catch on.
What if some kids just aren't ready?
I don't think a longer day will help them. In fact, the preschool had a frightening effect on him. He still has issues associated with that teacher.
Now My second son was ready to learn at 2. My second son new his abc's by age 2 and could spell book.
Maybe we push some kids to hard trying to get them up on a age level We think they should be at. Then, We just aren't providing enough to those kids ready to learn long before we think they need to.
All day will not help. My opinion
Fawn
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