DD1 started reading in February of K. Very simple books

DD2 started a few months earlier (maybe December)

DS has just started K. He can read already (Bob books level 3-4). I taught him this last summer. He is a boy and young for grade and I wanted him to feel good about his academic abilities and start on the right foot. As of now, they are only learning letters and letter sounds.

Not sure they are doing much in math yet.

My older girls are a few years past K and are doing exceptionally well even though they were middle of the pack in K.

Started with the sounds letters make - mine know the consonants but not vowels coming in. By middle of K DS and most kids could do CVC words, and most were fluently reading simple books by EOY.

On numbers they learned adding/subtracting single digits up to 10. Lot of focus on showing it different ways and demonstrating using blocks and other manipulables. Eureka Math.

Agree with others that beginning of he is more about establishing routines and the socio emotional aspects of school and the classroom.

- MCPS K last yr

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What would you like your child to be learning and what were your expectations when you enrolled in this particular school?

If you think your child should be learning something that he or she isn't learning at school, then welcome to wide world of DIY supplementing.

You really, really don't need to be this nasty about a question about kindergarten.

How you managed to read nastiness in that comment is beyond my comprehension.

A lot is beyond your comprehension.

This OP, thank you for all the replies.

I had a kid who was way ahead when he started kindergarten; could read anything you put in front of him but not understand it necessarily, and could do all kinds of math. The teacher seemed annoyed by his presence. He didn't learn anything at all that year but it was also Covid. Now he is in 4th grade at a parochial school and he is totally middle of the pack.
My second child could not read anything entering kindergarten but by the end of the year could read things like Dr. Seuss slowly. I fully credit his excellent teacher.
So in answer to your question, I would expect the teacher to lay the foundations of reading, numbers, and push social skills. If your kid is ahead, then just the social skills.

Anonymous wrote:Kindergarten is designed to accommodate kids that did not go to preschool or Pre-K. So they will be doing the same things from preschool and pre-K in Kindergarten and first grade.

If you want to keep your kids learning new stuff then it needs to be done after school.

Agree with a PP that this isn't guaranteed. Really good K teachers can differentiate or at least provide opportunities for kids who are already reading to do a lot of that in the classroom.

But really good differentiators are rare because it's hard work on top of everything else we expect out of teachers.

Kindergarten is designed to accommodate kids that did not go to preschool or Pre-K. So they will be doing the same things from preschool and pre-K in Kindergarten and first grade.

If you want to keep your kids learning new stuff then it needs to be done after school.

My kid learned to read fluently in K. It depends on whether your teacher offers differentiation according to where kids are at. My kid independently started reading CVC words the summer before K and the teacher ran with it in small groups and by end of K she could read early readers and short chapter books on her own.

In math they did addition and subtraction up to 10 but not early in the year. They were still working on counting at that stage.

However there were plenty of kids in her K classroom who were not ready for that and who didn't get to CVC words or any functions in K and that is still considered on grade level.

Before you accuse me of bragging I will also note that even when you have a kid like mine who jumps ahead in K, other kids catch up quickly once reading clicks. Lots of kids who were not reading at all in K are now reading about the same level as my DD in 3rd. Early reading is kind of a party trick-- it seems like a big deal and the time to have a 4 yr old who is reading but then later everyone can read and it doesn't matter who did it first.

Letter sounds and putting the sounds down on paper. Math is not as advanced as it could be. Many are ready to add and subtract, but they are counting and writing numbers.

Letter names and sounds, identifying numbers and counting to 100. Proper writing of both. Classrom behavior, self sufficiency, and cleaning up after yourself. Some kids will be able to read CVC words at the end of the year, some won’t. A couple kids will go beyond that. This is pretty standard. Real “reading” and actual math the way we think of it does not happen until first.

Letter sounds, very beginnings of blending, counting. But mostly they focus on building the classroom community and behavior in the first quarter.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What would you like your child to be learning and what were your expectations when you enrolled in this particular school?

If you think your child should be learning something that he or she isn't learning at school, then welcome to wide world of DIY supplementing.

You really, really don't need to be this nasty about a question about kindergarten.

How you managed to read nastiness in that comment is beyond my comprehension.

Anonymous wrote:What would you like your child to be learning and what were your expectations when you enrolled in this particular school?

If you think your child should be learning something that he or she isn't learning at school, then welcome to wide world of DIY supplementing.

You really, really don't need to be this nasty about a question about kindergarten.

What would you like your child to be learning and what were your expectations when you enrolled in this particular school?

If you think your child should be learning something that he or she isn't learning at school, then welcome to wide world of DIY supplementing.

Just curious about the curriculums of other classrooms and if our expectations are off base.