Hello!
Newbie homeschooler here with some questions and maybe some angst with figuring things out. My daughter turns 4 in June, we have been doing the MP Pre-K curriculum this past year with the thought that I would stretch it out over longer than an academic year (we welcomed a new baby, number 3 in January so I knew we would be inconsistent with school and not get through all of the material in a year), and we would start Kindergarten when she was 5. Once the newborn phase was behind us and my feet were underneath me (a least a little better), we have been consistently doing school and I am really feeling like she is ready to move past letter recognition and their sounds and move on to phonics- I feel she is very very "reading ready". She knows all of her letters and their sounds, and her writing of them is coming along. Is it foolish to move her forward at such a young age? I was not planning on Kindergarten for her until she was 5 but she loves doing school and I don't want to hold her back. I also don't want to put her on a track she is not ready for socially and emotionally, if that's will be a concern for her later in life.
Any experience or wisdom regarding when to start a child in Kindergarten? Her comprehension of the stories we read (and savor!) in the Pre-K curriculum is also pretty good as well.
I have really enjoyed reading all of the threads posted here and appreciate your time and thoughts!
Jess
Newbie homeschooler here with some questions and maybe some angst with figuring things out. My daughter turns 4 in June, we have been doing the MP Pre-K curriculum this past year with the thought that I would stretch it out over longer than an academic year (we welcomed a new baby, number 3 in January so I knew we would be inconsistent with school and not get through all of the material in a year), and we would start Kindergarten when she was 5. Once the newborn phase was behind us and my feet were underneath me (a least a little better), we have been consistently doing school and I am really feeling like she is ready to move past letter recognition and their sounds and move on to phonics- I feel she is very very "reading ready". She knows all of her letters and their sounds, and her writing of them is coming along. Is it foolish to move her forward at such a young age? I was not planning on Kindergarten for her until she was 5 but she loves doing school and I don't want to hold her back. I also don't want to put her on a track she is not ready for socially and emotionally, if that's will be a concern for her later in life.
Any experience or wisdom regarding when to start a child in Kindergarten? Her comprehension of the stories we read (and savor!) in the Pre-K curriculum is also pretty good as well.
I have really enjoyed reading all of the threads posted here and appreciate your time and thoughts!
Jess
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