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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  I appreciate all of the resources, and I agree about the importance of play (and that's most of what my kid does all day).

But she's enrolled in online public preschool and the public preschool program is VERY focused on things like practicing letters, copying sentences, etc.  The assigned exercises are all optional, and we've barely done them this year, but as K gets closer, I've been feeling some need to get her ready for what it will be like.

It's interesting to hear on this board how inappropriate academics are for 4 year olds and then to experience the intensely academic focus of public preK.  I asked my kid's teacher about this--inquiring as to whether we might use a tiny bit of one class period for the kids to just talk to one another, do a show and tell, etc., and she said that their goal is kindergarten readiness, which means she wants all kids to be able to start to sound out words (or just the first sound in a word), write within lines, write all numbers, complete worksheets on things like sequencing, etc.

It's hard to strike the balance between following my instinct (i.e. learn through play) and knowing that overly academic K will start soon.
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K will bit start soon. K will start in 4 months. That’s a long time for a 4 year old. Leave her be. And turn on Sesame Street.

PS - there is kind of no such thing as academic K readiness. Some kids will show up reading, some won’t know their arse from a hole in the ground. Your daughter sounds like she’ll be like most of the kids in K - somewhere in between the two.[/quote]

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