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[quote=Anonymous]OP you will need benchmarks, but not for some time. When she is 4 and in preschool, if she can read and write and / or knows her numbers to 20, send her to K the year she turns 5 in Dec.

If she can't do any of these things, she WILL learn them in class and there will be kids who are 6 who are possibly a lot larger and can do these things already. There is a huge spectrum of ability and size in K

Either way,she can go and you can see how it is. Many kids do K twice if they feel the child is young / small etc.

We have had both situations. Our first child had a sept birthday and went on time. He was very small, young and wasn't really competent with a pencil. He repeated and is thriving now, one of the oldest in class, but definitely not the oldest kid.

My DD has a mid Dec birthday and we were living in a state that holds very strictly to the Sept. cut off so when she got to K she was reading chapter books to the rest of the kids during free time. She then skipped 1st and went right into 2nd. So she is very young but academically near the top of the class.

So its a case of seeing how things are the year of school entry and taking it from there. I know its really, really hard but try not to sweat it too much just yet.[/quote]

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