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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not that happy about it but we'll just do our best. By which i mean give it a good faith effort, recognize that a 5 year old will not focus on the screen, and pull back to the minimum if its awful. I know it's developmentally inappropriate so I just hope teachers are understanding, flexible, and positive - 5.5-6.5 hours for a virtual school day is crazy and I half expect them to quietly scale it back after a month.

We practice reading every day and math regularly, I'm less worried about my kid not being ready for first grade and more worried about his emotional health and relationship to school. [/quote]

Basically this. Our 5YO really needs the socialization and “how to exist in a classroom with other kids” aspect, more so than the academics. He’s too old to hold back. We have committed to two weeks of DL and then we’ll re-evaluate. I am 100% ready to homeschool him if needed, which I actually think could be a lot less work (1-2 hours per day) and definitely way less screen time.  But, I know he has an amazing K teacher and I just hope that they somehow prove us wrong. [/quote]

OP here. Yes I agree. So say this year remains all virtual or you homeschool. Youll be sending him to first next year despite missing this year of play/socialization, etc, right? Im hoping first grade curriculum will be adjusted to incorporate more of that play/social skills piece that is now being missed in kindergarten.[/quote]

we are planning on trying to do some social distancing play dates as possible to make sure my daughter still gets to have friendships.

I would remind everybody that a lot of kindergarten socialization is not necessarily about social skills but it's also about things like learning how to line up or sit criss cross apple sauce on the rug etc. I would say that with  zooms there's way less time that spent on transitions so there's actually more academic content [/quote]

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