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This is the [b]second[/b] week, they're doing 2 letters a day, and started this on tuesday. The first week... they colored and did a connecting the dots. My kid complains every day about this stuff. His "math" is learning single digit numbers, not even sequencing that they did last year.

He did sunshine academy over the summer. They did a placement test the first day! Then they put kids in different groups and started on actual arthimatic, wordly wise and 40 vocab/spelling words a day.

I'm not expecting the same level out of first grade that highly motivated kids, or their parents, are going to go for during a summer program, but I wasn't expecting this either. So yes, by my standards let alone montesorri standards, this is a joke.

My wife and I aren't products of the US k-12 system, which is why we send our kids to chinese school.

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DP.  In many US schools, including FCPS schools, things really ramp up in either 3rd or 4th grade.  Before that is a lot of treading water while the kids who are behind are caught up.  This is also true of many private schools.  Montessori is a bit different, in that it shines the most in the earliest years.

IOW, be patient.  [/quote]

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