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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow. In our K class last year, there were many, many opportunities for kids to work to their abilities. For example, they spent part of every day "journaling" where they would draw a picture on a certain subject and write about it. Like family, or a trip I took. So kids could do more or less elaborate drawings and write more words and sentences if they were able. They had several different reading groups for different levels. Even math concepts like "ways to make 10" were done in many different ways (coloring in the correct number of cats on a worksheet, counting out the correct number of marbles, and cutting and pasting the correct numbers of pieces of string) so that kids were constantly using different fine motor skills.

This was a DC public charter school, BTW.[/quote]

I'm so glad the "wow" poster is back. I think what you said above could have been said without the opening "wow" and be so much more effective. Wow just sounds like "aw shucks" stupid.[/quote]

Wow poster here, and this was my first posting in this thread so I'm not sure what you are talking about. I didn't mean to offend; I just wanted to let some PPs know that K teachers have many strategies for making sure that advanced kids are challenged and having fun, not just "treading water" for months because they already know how to count to 100 and read. Even in a DC public school where there is a huge range of ability, from not being able to hold a pencil correctly to being able to do extremely detailed drawings and write complete sentences. My child was pretty much middle of the pack on everything, except for maybe math, which he still enjoyed because there were lots of new concepts (patterns, units of measurement, money, etc.) that were visited with a wide variety of approaches.[/quote]

You make good points but sadly its not everyone's experience. Our K teacher stuck my DD on a computer every time she finished the work early. Or she let her read stories to the other kids (now this I grant, was fun for her)but its hardly making sure she was challenged. There was no real challenge for that entire year.[/quote]

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