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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid is in 3rd grade in a decent but not great public elementary school and has literally never spent hours staring at a laptop. Yes there is screen time (too much!) but most kids I know are getting more screen time at home than at school.

Kindergarten was usually:

About 60-90 of direct instruction (including small groups for more personalized instruction).

About 90 minutes of centers time (and yes one of the centers was tablets for I-Ready, but they rotated through them and the other centers were all hands on and interactive -- games, blocks, magnetiles, etc.)

90 minutes of specials (they rotated, so on any given day this would be PE, music, Spanish, or art). No screens in specials.

90 minute of lunch and recess (I wish less of this time was spent lining up, walking to the cafeteria, lining up, walking to the playground, lining up, walking back to the classroom).

The rest of the time was stuff like morning meeting, clean up time, etc.

It was much more academic than preschool but it was still an active, developmentally appropriate day. I would have liked more outdoor time and fewer worksheets, but it's public and I know it's never going to be perfect.

Some of you are talking about kindergarten like it's jail or something. [/quote]

Less than an hour per day outside, screen time, and significant time on worksheets are all absolutely not “developmentally appropriate” for a 4 year old. Don’t kid yourself. [/quote]

My kid wasn't 4 in kindergarten, she was 5. And stuff like worksheets and lack of outdoor time also suck when your kid is 6. But there really were not tons of worksheets in K, and there was more outdoor time than later grades (in addition to recess, PE was outside weather permitting, some lessons took place in the garden or outdoor classroom, and aftercare was entirely outside, so it really wasn't much different from preschool in terms of outdoor time). The screen time in K is really minimal IME -- like 15 minutes on a tablet while waiting for small group time, or watching a 10 minute video about the moon or something.

The added academic instruction in K, as compared to preschool, was almost entirely teacher led. That's a good thing! My kid loved small groups for math and reading, and got a lot out of whole group instruction too, even when it involved worksheets.[/quote]

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