At What Age Should Child Know How to Write Name?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My daughter is 4 and I've been having her meet 1-on-1 with a tutor. We are in the suburbs, so it's a lot of SAHMs who put their kids in preschool a few days a week when they are 3 or 4 (or not at all) so it's not a place where the majority of kids are in daycare from infancy learning these things in daycare.

Anyway, the tutor is very well versed on what the standards are and what they learn in K and such. She said that when kids enter kindergarten there is an enormous gap in what each child knows. Some kids come in able to read and write and do simple math. Some kids just know their alphabet, numbers to 10 and can barely write. And others even less. In the poorer neighborhoods, some kids don't even know how to hold a pencil properly and have never had a book read to them.

Point being I would not stress too much until your kid is in K and they have been given time to learn and be taught all of this. The teacher should say something if there is an issue.

I enjoy the juxtaposition of your two statements.

She wants to learn how to read. I don't have the training, nor the patience, to teach her to do so. In addition, she doesn't attend preschool. I'm hardly sending her to a tutor 1 time a week to make her a super genius.

[Anonymous]

In my child's PS3 (DC public preschool -- 3 turning 4) class, I am pretty sure all the kids could do it by the end of the year. Some wrote more clearly than others, of course.

[Anonymous]

3.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My daughter is 4 and I've been having her meet 1-on-1 with a tutor. We are in the suburbs, so it's a lot of SAHMs who put their kids in preschool a few days a week when they are 3 or 4 (or not at all) so it's not a place where the majority of kids are in daycare from infancy learning these things in daycare.

Anyway, the tutor is very well versed on what the standards are and what they learn in K and such. She said that when kids enter kindergarten there is an enormous gap in what each child knows. Some kids come in able to read and write and do simple math. Some kids just know their alphabet, numbers to 10 and can barely write. And others even less. In the poorer neighborhoods, some kids don't even know how to hold a pencil properly and have never had a book read to them.

Point being I would not stress too much until your kid is in K and they have been given time to learn and be taught all of this. The teacher should say something if there is an issue.

I enjoy the juxtaposition of your two statements.

She wants to learn how to read. I don't have the training, nor the patience, to teach her to do so. In addition, she doesn't attend preschool. I'm hardly sending her to a tutor 1 time a week to make her a super genius.

Seriously??? I've seen a lot of bizarre confessions on DCUM, but this one truly amazes me!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My daughter is 4 and I've been having her meet 1-on-1 with a tutor. We are in the suburbs, so it's a lot of SAHMs who put their kids in preschool a few days a week when they are 3 or 4 (or not at all) so it's not a place where the majority of kids are in daycare from infancy learning these things in daycare.

Anyway, the tutor is very well versed on what the standards are and what they learn in K and such. She said that when kids enter kindergarten there is an enormous gap in what each child knows. Some kids come in able to read and write and do simple math. Some kids just know their alphabet, numbers to 10 and can barely write. And others even less. In the poorer neighborhoods, some kids don't even know how to hold a pencil properly and have never had a book read to them.

Point being I would not stress too much until your kid is in K and they have been given time to learn and be taught all of this. The teacher should say something if there is an issue.

I enjoy the juxtaposition of your two statements.

She wants to learn how to read. I don't have the training, nor the patience, to teach her to do so. In addition, she doesn't attend preschool. I'm hardly sending her to a tutor 1 time a week to make her a super genius.

Seriously??? I've seen a lot of bizarre confessions on DCUM, but this one truly amazes me!

Me too. She should be reading already, especially if she has a tutor. Why isn't she?

[Anonymous]

PreK or K.

Its not uncommon to have backwards letters. And when young, sometimes the letters will be all over the page instead of in sequence.

[Anonymous]

I really think it depends. I mean, if it's a Waldorf kid, I wouldn't blink if a 5yr old couldn't do it.

[Anonymous]

Everyone in DS's pre-k class can write their name. They are all 4yo. DS was middle of the pack and he wrote his name right when he turned 4. There were a lot of kids in the class who could write their names at age 3.5.

[Anonymous]

My son just got decent at it at age 4. Before that his "A" was an "H." It seems that in his class, in which he is the oldest, there are only a couple of others who are writing clearly. Everyone else is scribbling.

[Anonymous]

My pediatrician said this is a "5 year old" skill, which I interpreted to mean they look for it as a benchmark at the 5 year old appt.

[Anonymous]

My almost 4yo boy can write the letters in his name, but we're still working on understanding that they have to go in order!

[Anonymous]

My 4.25 yr old DS can write his name but it is part of what he will learn this year in his pre k class. All the kids sign their name on a dry erase board when the enter the classroom in the morning. There is on little girl who writes her first and last name in different color markers.

[Anonymous]

All of the kids in my child's K class (public school) can write their name....with various skill. Her preschool also did a "sign in" board for the 4's class so they got a lot of practice that year.

[Anonymous]

3 year old DD is in a Montessori preschool where the 3 year old set trace their first names, feel the "sandpaper" letters with their fingers and get exposed to all kinds of manual activities: pouring from minute jugs into minuscule glasses, or using chopsticks to pick up little beads, etc...

She can write her first name but not her very long last name.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My daughter is 4 and I've been having her meet 1-on-1 with a tutor. We are in the suburbs, so it's a lot of SAHMs who put their kids in preschool a few days a week when they are 3 or 4 (or not at all) so it's not a place where the majority of kids are in daycare from infancy learning these things in daycare.

Anyway, the tutor is very well versed on what the standards are and what they learn in K and such. She said that when kids enter kindergarten there is an enormous gap in what each child knows. Some kids come in able to read and write and do simple math. Some kids just know their alphabet, numbers to 10 and can barely write. And others even less. In the poorer neighborhoods, some kids don't even know how to hold a pencil properly and have never had a book read to them.

Point being I would not stress too much until your kid is in K and they have been given time to learn and be taught all of this. The teacher should say something if there is an issue.

I enjoy the juxtaposition of your two statements.

She wants to learn how to read. I don't have the training, nor the patience, to teach her to do so. In addition, she doesn't attend preschool. I'm hardly sending her to a tutor 1 time a week to make her a super genius.

Wait, you don't have the training or patience to teach your daughter to read?

What kind of training do you imagine is involved in sitting with a toddler and reading a favorite book together? Which is how kids learn to read.