CycloneErik
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5 in September.
We went with the half-day Kindergarten/E-K program. She's kind of anxious to be back.
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5 in September.
We went with the half-day Kindergarten/E-K program. She's kind of anxious to be back.
Maryland = Asia + Africa
Delaware = Europe + Latin America
That just leaves Canada (hardly anybody lives there), Antarctica (nobody lives there except maybe a few escaped Nazis), and Australia (which doesn't even really exist). Learning and teaching world history should be a breeze.
Thats awesome, the more you can get a kid in a classroom before Kindergarten the better. I've worked in schools the last 6 or 7 years and I can tell with 95% accuracy which kids have been in pre-k settings and which haven't before kindergarten. Those social/emotional skills taught are huge.
The North was bigger than the South. That should make it even less challenging than Velo thought it would be.
CycloneErik
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It's going to be weird afterwards. There's a choice to go the Kindergarten or 1st grade after this year.
Academically, they spend this coming year doing Kindergarten stuff. It'll be interesting, because I have trouble seeing Z just going through the same stuff a second time.
CycloneErik
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Dang, I actually forgot there was an Australia. Thankfully, now there isn't!
I was a July birthday so always young for my grade and never felt like I struggled, but I was big and not shy. Also my parents are both teachers, and my mom is specifically elementary endorsed. I suspect you guys are similar parents to my parents though in that youre hands on.
I think Frank Sinatra said it best.
Once there was a silly old ram
Thought he'd punch a hole in a dam
No one could make that ram, scram
He kept buttin' that dam
Cause he had high hopes, he had high hopes
He had high apple pie, in the sky hopes
So any time you're feelin' bad
'stead of feelin' sad
Just remember that ram
Oops there goes a billion kilowatt dam
...and you are welcome for the ear worm
Here's the thing, though....I don't know that, and if I kept reading and there were more spoilers (hint - there were) I have no one to blame but myself. Rule of thumb, guys - no details for a week. After that, people really didn't care enough to see it right away, so they're on their own.
Sidebar: @cyrevkah I would go with "no" for Z going to see it. Just a gut feeling based on her age and whether or not she thinks dinosaurs are cute.
Here's the thing, though....I don't know that, and if I kept reading and there were more spoilers (hint - there were) I have no one to blame but myself. Rule of thumb, guys - no details for a week. After that, people really didn't care enough to see it right away, so they're on their own.
Sidebar: @cyrevkah I would go with "no" for Z going to see it. Just a gut feeling based on her age and whether or not she thinks dinosaurs are cute.
I don't think she had any desire to see. Just wanted to know why the dinosaur was chasing the little girl.
Here is my 2 cents on whether to send them early in school. And to give background. I have 2 nephews with July, one niece with April. (They go July, April, July age wise) also have a son that is August, (daughter that is dec) and another son that is end of April.
My niece was young for her class. The rest were all held. All have parents with college degree. My one BIL and my wife were/are school teachers.
To emphasize how much we believe in having them old for their grade, our youngest is April and we sat on him to make him old for his class. It was off experience we have seen from growing up and teaching. We have never seen a kid struggle due to being old for their grade. We have seen it several times for being young. My niece who is going to med school (who looks like Reece weatherspoon) was academically strong but lacked social maturity so friend making was more difficult.
Girls will give you a little better opportunity than boys to send early. We all have agreed that early sends typically can do well academically or socially but usually don’t excel at both.
Just my and my families opinions.
My niece was young for her class. The rest were all held. All have parents with college degree. My one BIL and my wife were/are school teachers.
To emphasize how much we believe in having them old for their grade, our youngest is April and we sat on him to make him old for his class. It was off experience we have seen from growing up and teaching. We have never seen a kid struggle due to being old for their grade. We have seen it several times for being young. My niece who is going to med school (who looks like Reece weatherspoon) was academically strong but lacked social maturity so friend making was more difficult.
Girls will give you a little better opportunity than boys to send early. We all have agreed that early sends typically can do well academically or socially but usually don’t excel at both.
Just my and my families opinions.
Half a century ago I went to kindergarten roundup for testing and evaluation. Afterward, the school told my mom that they were instead going to start me in 1st grade because even though I would barely by 5 by school start I was ahead of my peers and ready for 1st grade. Despite this being before wide spread preschool, having several older siblings and parents who were constantly teaching me something new probably got me way ahead and beyond what we would learn in kindergarten. To make a long story short, my mom forbade it and said I would be going to kindergarten. Sometimes I got a little bored in school, but in the end I think she made the right decision. I did very well with school work but physically was already behind most of my class. It would have been even worse if I was a year younger. As it was, I graduated at 17. I'm glad she made that decision for me.
I was always left alone on the farm except when work called. Looking back and realizing things, I definitely had ear fluid problems. Infections and trouble hearing most things. Never got tubes, parents didn't think it was warranted. I basically had speech issues and kinda made my own language from being left to myself to roam the farm. To shorten the story, the early teachers and testing wanted to label me as slightly mentally ********.
Now pop forward to second grade after receiving speech classes and growth helped to clean up the fluid in the ear canal issues. My parents were contacted by my school and asked if they would be able to have me skip third grade and go right to fourth. Told my folks they didn't think I would have any issues and they would tutor me some in any issue spots. Folks talked it over, I didn't want to leave my group. In the end, I stayed in the same class.
tl:dr, In the matter of 3 years, major things can change.
Son wanted Chinese food tonight. I went to the grocery store. Thought sweet and sour chicken would be good. So I grab a bag out of the freezer and head home. Making the chicken, I look a the packets and they seem off color. I finish everything and put together, take a bite and think, this doesn't seem right. I got Orange chicken, not sweet and sour. I am more a szechuan person but with me and the son I thought sweet and sour would be good. Not really an orange chicken person.
I'm really sorry to hear that SCGot called for jury duty this week. Show up at the courthouse, turns out it's a murder case.....a young (32) man I know was shot and killed in the wee hours - down in the flats, for those of you who know FD - after an argument over a card game.
There were numerous witnesses, but an arrest wasn't made until December (the shooting occurred last September). So there are 100+ of us in the courtroom all day long listening to the prosecuting attorney go through voir dire on a couple dozen prospective jurors, asking them things like have they ever been impacted by a murder, do they have a concealed weapons permit, had they ever drawn down on someone, etc.
Have to go back again today, hopefully they will get the jury empaneled and I can go back to my life again. If they had called me, I would have told them I was acquainted with the victim (which I was), and I might have been excused.
Just on the subject of jury duty, I actually really want to sit on a jury, but know that even if I ever get the letter I'll get struck since I'm an attorney and interned at a prosecutors office.
I'm a may birthday and was started late. My aunts are elementary school teachers and said that people really don't say they wished they'd have started their kids earlier, but rather that they wish they'd started them a year later. I have no regrets starting late
Also, sorry I haven't been on here. Work got a bit crazy and I was in Madison over the weekend.
Also, a friend and I are now proud owners of Wisconsin season football tickets, which I'm super excited for, and we're on the side I wanted to be on #westsidebestside
Also, a friend and I are now proud owners of Wisconsin season football tickets, which I'm super excited for, and we're on the side I wanted to be on #westsidebestside
CycloneErik
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The late start sounded good until a lawyer chipped in.
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