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[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: instant anxiety for 3, 4, 5-year-olds
>>>>. If a parent comes to my room and says his/her child "likes" to sit in rows and do pencil and paper fill in the blanks all day, I ask why. My 5 year old kindergartener likes to do worksheets. She's been doing "workbooks" for at least a year. She asks for them. Repeatedly. Bugs me. *Wants* to do them. *Likes* pages about things like "silent e". Is bummed that she has not yet done any writing in Kindergarten. Was "writing" (nonsense letters) from a very young age. OTOH, my 13-year-old has only gotten comfortable with written work in the last two years or so. *Never* did nonsense letters. Yet he learned to read "early" - had a vocab of 40 sight words on his second birthday. Learned Venn diagrams at two. I think kids vary a whole lot more than the schools are really set up for. Pauline
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