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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At our school in MCPS, it seems like very little. The math/language skills are far more basic so far than she learned in the prek 4 we sent her to last year (which was in DC & private because Montgomery County doesn’t do universal prek). Would love to think we’ll get some differentiation at this point, but the signs so far don’t seem to point in that direction. [/quote]

You can build on her existing math and reading skills at home. If the school is still practicing counting to 5 when your child is already adding and subtracting within 10 and can count to 100, start showing her how to add and subtract within 100 using an abacus. If the school is still working on letter names and sounds when your kid can read CVC words, start teaching her silent e and more digraphs.

It's very hard to get differentiation in upper grades, when by that time it's obvious who the smart kids are, so it's probably not going to happen in K when the school has comparatively much less data about kids' abilities. For that reason there is a whole economy of outside academic enrichment and acceleration.[/quote]

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