Taylor's birthday is August 5th. We have been thinking about when he would start Kindergarten since we knew his due date... 5 1/2 years ago!!!! It's been really stressful trying to decide when to start him. He did great in his preschool- loved spelling tests (he got 100 on each one last year)- really loves learning, but he'll be young. Matt was pushing for Kindergarten and my 'mother's intuition' wasn't enough evidence to have him wait a year.
We went to sign him up for K and went to 'meet your teacher' day and I just about lost it! There were 14 boys and 7 girls in his K class. 8 of the boys were already 6 years old, and were WAY bigger and taller than Taylor. That's what I was afraid of. I think that, for us, it will be better for Taylor in the long run, academically, socially, emotionally, and physically to wait on K for one more year. I came home and talked with Matt and he agreed! Yea! The best part is that Michigan has a great program for kids in exactly this situation- kids that are ready to learn and have class room structure, but are just a little young- birthdays from Aug 1- Dec 31. It's called Developmental Kindergarten.
Taylor goes to school from 8:36- 11:36 everyday. He even gets picked up by the bus in the morning (which was HUGE for him!) and gets dropped off around noon. Academically it's not advanced at ALL! But he's in a classroom, has art, gym and music class and gets to go to the school library once a week. He loves it. Next year we're hoping his name will be drawn in the lottery for the Spanish immersion program here. It's supposed to be amazing! But for now... I'm going to be excited for my litte DKer!
First day of school- front door
waiting in line at the bus stop, across the street from our house
Getting on the bus and the bus driving away
Getting off the bus at school- walking to his classroom
(yes, I know, kinda ridiculous to follow the bus but I just wanted to make sure he got there- he has
(yes, I know, kinda ridiculous to follow the bus but I just wanted to make sure he got there- he has
to switch buses at another Elementary school)
Home!
3 comments:
how cute! he looks so grown up! and seriously, thank you for blogging about this. we are already debating the kindergarten start date for jack (july birthday) and this is really good to know.
We waited for Lucy too. I wish she had a program like you guys do. I have to drive her both ways which can be hard on somedays. She isn't learning a ton but that is okay because I don't want to feel like I have to make the decision again next year as to have her test into 1st grade or repeat kindergarten. He is so cute getting on the bus!
christopher would be jealous if he saw this he would love to ride the bus, but we live too close.
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