Morgan is Four and a Half

[tiger_spot]

Four and a half! It is a different age than four, and a very different age than three and a half

Comments

[suzanne]

I was befuddled when she asked how much longer until four and a half last week and I realized she was. She was rather excited "I hope someone asks me so I can tell them I'm not four, but I'm four and a half

[ljgeoff]

One of my boys was anxious that his ability to read would mean that I'd read to him less.

[tiger_spot]

This is my suspicion. It also might have something to do with wanting to be a baby? She's pretty resistant to the whole "but look at all the cool stuff you can do because you're a big kid" argument.

[ljgeoff]

How do schools handle kids that read befor 1st grade now? I was so horribly bored.

[tiger_spot]

We are trying to get her into the dual-immersion program, so if all goes well we figure learning how to do everything en Español will keep her busy. The other possible school does some ability-tracking regrouping of the kids between subjects -- in some ways it is not so much three separate kindergarten classes as a very large class with three rooms and three teachers. And she certainly has a lot of fluency to work on. My first day in first grade, they handed out these readers. I sat down, read through it, and went to hand it back at the end of the day to get the next one. The teacher asked me some comprehension/memory questions, which I did not do well on, and she handed me the reader back to go through more slowly and work on more thorough understanding rather than just zooming through. After that I remember being bored when waiting for other kids to get through their paragraphs of reading out loud in turns, but that would have been true regardless of my ability level. The nice thing about reading is that so much of it is independent

[c_maxx]

They do keep changing!

And do develop lots of personality too. Our two girls, 6 and 9, are COMpletely different. They each show lots of one of the parents..

[vcmw]

It's so lovely to hear about all the new things Morgan is doing and learning.