She will be 5 on August 27 next year, and the cut-off for starting school is September 1st. We plan to send her, but of course she will be one of the youngest in her class.
I have a December birthday, so there was never a question about when I would start school. I did well in school socially and academically. However, I did not attend preschool. I only attended a structured center daycare once a week before I started kindergarten, and otherwise, I went to a home daycare setting full-time.
Delia has been in a center daycare for most of her life thus far. She has been in the preschool classroom since she was 33 months old, and just recently she transitioned to the Preschool 2 room which focuses on school readiness. She does well socially, she is making strides academically, and she does very well with the structured schedule, listening to her teachers, and following rules.
The only worry I have at the moment is around academics. Delia does not know all of her letters or numbers yet or how to read. However, late this summer she began to take a real interest in learning her letters and the sounds that they make; she does recognize most of them by sight now. She is also doing better with her numbers and understands basic math concepts. I am hoping that she will be ready by this time next year when she is in school.
I often hear arguments about why one should wait to send their child to kindergarten until they are older if they have a summer birthday, but I recently read an article in the NY Times about why it is good to not wait. I appreciated the article.
For those of you with summer birthdays or with kids who have summer birthdays, what did you do? Do you think you made the right choice?
Inquiring minds want to know.
And just for fun, see what a good little listener she is?
(at gymnastics class)
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Now that I've had one go through Kindergarten and one currently IN Kindergarten, from what you've described D sounds perfectly on track to start Kindergarten next Fall. Ryann certainly didn't know how to read before she started Kindergarten a couple weeks ago (and still doesn't) and she knew all the letters of the alphabet but was not 100% re: all their sounds. Kindergarten is when you learn that stuff. And from my experience....you really don't learn that much in Kindergarten other than letters, letter sounds, colors, a few numbers, and dealing with having to listen to a teacher and interact with a classroom full of other children while trying to take in information. She'll do great!
She is so cute! I miss kindergarten. Life was so fun and easy back then. She is going to have such a good time!
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This can be a tough one - I am an August baby, Tommy a July baby. My parents put me in K when I was 5 - I was the youngest in my class for years - and I embraced it. I don't think it affected me in any way.
We started Tommy in K this year - he is also the youngest in his class - I see no impact. If I didn't know he was the youngest, I wouldn't konw (does that make sense?)
I can also tell you I was at a MOPS meeting recently - the lower school principal from Tommy's school was the speaker, she was fantastic. One thing she stressed to us was how amazing young minds are - she said that now matter what level they start at in K most kids are all in the same position by 2nd grade. (early readers/late readers it all evens out).
ok...sorry long comment...but I say if you feel like emotionally she is ready, if she is interested in learning and ready to sit in a class, send her. I bet she will do phenomenal (and don't stress about what she does or doesn't know too much - its amazing how much they learn in K!!)
My b-day is the 21, and my parents put me in a private pre-school/ kinder so I could go a year early. So I started kindergarten at 4, graduated hs and started college at 17....and I would have been miserable otherwise!
Have a wonderful weekend!
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