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[quote=Anonymous]Personally that sounds nuts to me.  Our 4y.o. is in a play-based preschool, and the topics we have primarily talked about with the teacher involve the social / emotional aspects. They have certainly talked about certain topics - bones, butterflies (with live caterpillars/chrysalis/butterfly in the classroom), etc. - but I'm not aware of a specific focus on those types of math skills, and our child most certainly doesn't get homework.  Personally I'd be kind of upset if my child's preschool were sending home homework, as I just don't think it's a developmentally appropriate expectation at this age. And I say that even though my kids likes doing worksheets, but on her timetable and on the topics that interest her at that moment.
 
I will say though that we have done a lot of that sort of learning at home through fun / games because our child is interested in those topics (side note: the old card game 'War' is great for greater than / less than).  So while I don't think it's bad to introduce those concepts at this age, the concept of worksheet style homework in preschool just seems wrong.  [/quote]

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