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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry about that. I am not a type A parent worrying about Harvard I promise. I actually was a bit alarmed by what was being taught at private school based on a parent's post especially since I have a child with fine-motor issues who loves to play. According to this parents kids in K are already writing a sentence about their drawings, they are graphing, and learning money skills. They are doing social studies about all sorts of cultures. It all sounds great, it just sounds to me more like end of the year rather than mid year stuff for K and I was wondering if FCPS expects kids to move at such fast pace as well and then what are the expectations in 1st. The whole post I read sounded more like 1st/2nd grade stuff to me, but what do I know.[/quote]

Notice that only one poster listed the school (GDS) and unlike many of the other posters, that particular parent described what most people expect out of kindergarten.  I suspect that some of the parents were either exagerating, or using creatively descriptive language to make it sound like their schools were teaching all the kids like they were second graders.

For example, a parent on the other thread listed graphing.  My fcps kindergartner is also graphing.  But in kinder, graping usually involves coloring a grid of squares, ie the first number is six, color in six squares with your favorite crayon.  I suspect they are doing the same type of learning; it just sounds more impressive to call it "graphing" than to say they are coloring the squares to correspond with the numbers.  (Or, perhaps the are actually graphing numbers and analyzing data.  For $30K/year on kindergarten I might expect that too  :) )

Some of the things my kid's class has worked on so far this year include:  Citizenship/responsibility; Language Arts--handwriting, phonics, basic reading skills (following along the sentences with the finger, sight words, reciting short stories, and reading basic stories (my kid went from not reading to reading outloud independently in the first month of school)), types of stories (fiction vs non fiction, authors, illustrators, main characters, etc.); Science--leaves, plants, seeds, squirrels, germs/hygene (can't remember what else); History--the flag, pledge, pilgrims, veterans, Christopher Columbus, native Americans; Math--counting, "graphs", numbers through 100, writing numbers, shapes, patterns, number groupings; plus Music, Art, Computers and PE.  I am sure there is a lot more that I forgot.  It is all presented in a way that engages your average 5-6 year old.  My kid loves learning and I don't feel like the work is either overwhelming or underwhelming.[/quote]

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