Should I ask the preschool to move my kid to a more advanced class?

[Anonymous]

It's preschool. Her happiness is the most important thing right now. And I think that counting to 10 and speaking in sentences sounds pretty average at 2.5.

[Anonymous]

OP, how are you so sure about the abilities of all the other kids in your daughter's class?

[Anonymous]

I assume the classes are probably grouped by age at which the kids will eventually go to kindergarten. So if they move her up, she'll lose all of her friends when they are old enough to go to kindergarten and she is not.

My daughter was also ahead of the curve - speaking in complete paragraphs at 17 months, many big words, etc. She could count and do the alphabet and do colors and such very early on. She was an early reader. But we didn't think about moving her - she liked her classmates. I don't see any need to rush this since there's usually little wiggle room in when they go to kindergarten.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My 2.5 year old daughter is ahead of children in her class. I am by more means bragging, I am just stating a fact. She is ahead in her vocabulary (she speaks in complete sentences in English and Spanish). Also, a lot of the things the teacher is doing with the kids, she has already leaned. She said to me today that my daughter can count to 10. I didn't tell her, but she has been able to count to 10 since she was 17 months old. At this point if you show her a number, she can tell you what it is.

I am worried that on one hand, she is not getting challenged and want to them to move her up to the 3 year olds class. However, another part of me thinks does a 2.5 year old really need to be challenged?

WWYD?

Having been in basically this situation, I would not move her. She's happy, and she's learning all kinds of things that have nothing to do with letters and numbers. Academic challenges are not the only kind of challenges, and not the ones that matter most to small children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lol.
-everyone

This

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lol.
-everyone

This

+2. Please tell me the my kid should be academically challenged movement hasn't taken over the pre-school set? And my oldest kid is at TJ, with his sister having as good a shot as anyone else at being accepted is she decides to apply in next year's cycle. So I get the merits of academic challenge. I also get that kids learn an amazing amount if you turn off the TV, buy them legos and other building toys, take them to the library every week, cater to their 3 year old fascination all things dinosaur/ train/ space with books and movies, and field trips, and then give them unstructured time to play. Bonus points for lots of patient question answering. Fastfoward 12 years, and they have to sit up until 1 am to finish their homework. And they don't love that. But they still love going to school because they have intellectual passion and curiousity, and being pushed. Don't drill and kill that out of your kid when they are 3

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our 2.5 year old speaks 3 languages, know all his letters in those languages and tries to read. Loves to tell stories based on what he sees on the pictures.
Gets along with other well- careful with the little ones and trying to keep pace with the older ones.
Never crossed my mind to move him to more advanced class at such a nearly age. Why not reconsider when she is older and is bored with academic offered and can handle a little more.
Maybe the particular school is not a good fit, but didn't you say she loves it?

Does she go to the Feynman school in bethesda?

[Anonymous]

But they still love going to school because they have intellectual passion and curiousity, and being pushed. Don't drill and kill that out of your kid when they are 3

++1000000000

If you push too much when they are two, they will miss other skills they need. I taught school and I have seen this. Let her be two and a half years old. She needs to explore her environment more than she needs to learn to read.