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[quote=Anonymous]We are not in Fairfax, but Montgomery County - I'm sure  the curriculum is similar. You can probably check the Fairfax public school website.

K students learn number recognition and counting up to 100, an extended goal is to do basic addition later in the year.

Students learn to recognize letters and their sounds, then common sight words, and are expected to be emergent readers (read simple sentences) by the end of K.

Sharing, listening to others, negotiating with their peers, helping one another, are all important skills taught as well.

Personally, I feel that if your child understands the concept of stringing letter sounds together to form a word, she will progress fine and not feel overwhelmed. You can do that over the summer, because for most children, it takes a few months to go from alphabet sounds to building words out of them.

The math curriculum is in my opinion, not strong enough. DC was in Montessori prior to public K, where he was taught to count to 1000 and add hundreds.[/quote]

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