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[quote=Anonymous]I'm curious.  I was born in 1988, so I guess I would have attended kindergarden in 1993.  I went to kindergarden at DCPS at a JKLM school, and while my memory is fuzzy because it was 20 years ago, this is what I can remember of it.

We had some pre-reading activities like sight words, rhyming, phonics, learning how to write short words/sentences.  We did some basic math, mostly addition and subtraction.  We had "centers" that had some kind of theme to them that we got to play in for some portion of the day (the reading center, the make believe center, the science activity center, etc.)  We had a lot of art projects that had some kind of learning goal in mind...I vaguely remember learning about the solar system and the phases of the moon through some sort of paper cutouts.  We had one special every day...science, art, music, PE, and something else that I'm forgetting.  We had a lot of learning about different cultures.  We had story time that could be picture books or chapter books (I remember having The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe read to me at one point).  We had naptime, but it was optional and if we didn't want to nap we could read, draw, or play quietly.  We had some homework in the form of coloring and writing activities, but I think it was only like 10 minutes.  We had recess with the older kids, which was like 20 minutes, although I think we had a little extra 15 minute break to play outside, weather permitting.  It was sort of academic, I guess.  My teacher thought I had "impulse control" issues and told my mom that she should work on it with me, but I wasn't really a problem child or anything.  We had to line up to get our milk at lunch, or go to the cafeteria.  Socially, it wasn't a problem because I attended nursery school and was used to being around other kids.  I thought it was mostly pretty fun.  My best friend and I had all kinds of fun adventures that we would plan during naptime because neither of us liked to nap.

Is kindergarden way more stressful and academic than this now?  I definitely didn't just play and fingerpaint in preschool; there was a lot of pre-reading and pre-math activities but none of it stressed me out.  Also back in the day, DCPS had a December cut off, so there were plenty of 4 year olds in my kindergarden class.[/quote]

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