I am trying to plan out my school pre tax deduction for the next few years and it got me thinking when will I send my kids to Kindergarten.
All of them will hopefully have Spring/Summer birthdays.
Will you send your April baby in September 2017? Age wise they will be middle for their grade.
My June baby is more like a July baby (born the 30th). I wonder if I will send him September 2018 or hold him. Obviously he has a lot of growing to do in the next 4 years and I wouldn't hold him back for sports but will it be hard on a boy being the youngest and potentially smallest in the grade?
I know there are a lot of moving pieces and every child is different, matures on their own schedule, etc.
Post by dixeedeluxe on Mar 20, 2014 15:11:43 GMT -5
No red shirting in this family! My strong opinion on it may be due to the fact that my oldest is a September baby. I can't imagine my two kids in the same class. So I can't imagine that age gap.
She'll start the 2s in fall 2014. So Adeline will be in K in fall 2017.
C25K...it works Seaside 5K...........40:45(2012) Turkey Trot..........41:30(2012)/37:08(2013)/37:40(2014) St Pat's 5K..........39:27(2013)/38:48(2014)/35:12(2015) Belair Town Run......38:09(2013)/36:27(2014) Back To Football 5K..37:36(2013)/43:44(2015) Balt Run Fest 5K.....34:59(2013)/41:50(2014)/35:54(2015)
No redshirting here. As a matter of fact L started K a year early for few reasons, and has thrived. I'm a believer that baring any obvious issues, children will rise to the standard set for them.
No redshirting here. As a matter of fact L started K a year early for few reasons, and has thrived. I'm a believer that baring any obvious issues, children will rise to the standard set for them.
wait, isn't redshirting sending them early? so K when they are 4? or do i have it backwards? so redshirting will be K when they are 6?
C25K...it works Seaside 5K...........40:45(2012) Turkey Trot..........41:30(2012)/37:08(2013)/37:40(2014) St Pat's 5K..........39:27(2013)/38:48(2014)/35:12(2015) Belair Town Run......38:09(2013)/36:27(2014) Back To Football 5K..37:36(2013)/43:44(2015) Balt Run Fest 5K.....34:59(2013)/41:50(2014)/35:54(2015)
Ada is a May baby, I will send her when she is 5, so Sept 2017. Unless preschool recommends she gets held back. She starts a 2's class this September though and I fully expect her to be behind (most the birthdays I saw were August-October 2011). I hope she will catch up by the 3's class.
No redshirting here. As a matter of fact L started K a year early for few reasons, and has thrived. I'm a believer that baring any obvious issues, children will rise to the standard set for them.
Yep yep yep. I actually plan to make sure his is in a play based curriculum through three and then in a more academic pre-k.
No redshirting here. As a matter of fact L started K a year early for few reasons, and has thrived. I'm a believer that baring any obvious issues, children will rise to the standard set for them.
wait, isn't redshirting sending them early? so K when they are 4? or do i have it backwards? so redshirting will be K when they are 6?
Redshirt ing is sending them late. So for our April babies it would be having them start in 2018 instead of 2017.
If he's socially and academically ready when he's 5, that's when we'll send him. If he doesn't seem ready, we'll keep him in pre-k. Abby is one of the youngest in her class, I and my sister were always among the youngest in our classes. It didn't seem to hurt either of us. Abby's social skills could probably be a bit better, but I have no reason to believe it would have changed after another year in pre-school, and academically she's closer to 2nd grade than 1st. She would not have thrived if we'd kept her out of kindergarten another year.
C25K...it works Seaside 5K...........40:45(2012) Turkey Trot..........41:30(2012)/37:08(2013)/37:40(2014) St Pat's 5K..........39:27(2013)/38:48(2014)/35:12(2015) Belair Town Run......38:09(2013)/36:27(2014) Back To Football 5K..37:36(2013)/43:44(2015) Balt Run Fest 5K.....34:59(2013)/41:50(2014)/35:54(2015)
No redshirting here. As a matter of fact L started K a year early for few reasons, and has thrived. I'm a believer that baring any obvious issues, children will rise to the standard set for them.
Yep yep yep. I actually plan to make sure his is in a play based curriculum through three and then in a more academic pre-k.
This exactly what we did. She was in an in home daycare until age 3, then we moved to preschool. She ended up in the 4s class and thrived, so we had her start K after multiple conversations with her pre-k teacher and our school district.
Carson being an end of October baby will miss the cut off so he will be a 2019 starter. He will be one of the older ones in the class, but not the oldest.
Carson being an end of October baby will miss the cut off so he will be a 2019 starter. He will be one of the older ones in the class, but not the oldest.
Edie is the oldest. Her school boyfriend is late October and he's the 2nd oldest. He's SO SMALL. Smaller than Adeline. But Edie loooooves him.
C25K...it works Seaside 5K...........40:45(2012) Turkey Trot..........41:30(2012)/37:08(2013)/37:40(2014) St Pat's 5K..........39:27(2013)/38:48(2014)/35:12(2015) Belair Town Run......38:09(2013)/36:27(2014) Back To Football 5K..37:36(2013)/43:44(2015) Balt Run Fest 5K.....34:59(2013)/41:50(2014)/35:54(2015)
B will start kinder in August 2017 when she is 5. G was born in July and also started kinder when she was 5. I was a little worried at first because she is one of the youngest in her class, but she has done great. I cannot even imagine having held her back. She would have been so bored in preschool for another year.
It's hard to make that call so early! I would never redshirt just to give him an advantage. And knowing K I really doubt he'll need to wait. But if I had a kid who did not seem ready for kindergarten at 5, sure, I would hold them back. But the default would be to send them when they're 5, following the school's cutoff date.
Post by dixeedeluxe on Mar 20, 2014 15:48:21 GMT -5
spin off question...if a child was "not ready", wouldn't the place to obtain services to make them ready be school? i really have no idea. because wouldn't the EI cut off be school aged?
C25K...it works Seaside 5K...........40:45(2012) Turkey Trot..........41:30(2012)/37:08(2013)/37:40(2014) St Pat's 5K..........39:27(2013)/38:48(2014)/35:12(2015) Belair Town Run......38:09(2013)/36:27(2014) Back To Football 5K..37:36(2013)/43:44(2015) Balt Run Fest 5K.....34:59(2013)/41:50(2014)/35:54(2015)
spin off question...if a child was "not ready", wouldn't the place to obtain services to make them ready be school? i really have no idea. because wouldn't the EI cut off be school aged?
I'm more conceded about socially ready. I think if A seems not academically not ready, I will enroll her anyway and she how she does. Kids can always repeat kindergarten if they don't do well the first time.
Carson being an end of October baby will miss the cut off so he will be a 2019 starter. He will be one of the older ones in the class, but not the oldest.
This is us too. And like @thadsrad, we have her in a play based program now and then later a structured pre-k. It hard for C though, because he'll have to start all these later than her because if his birthday. He misses the cutoff to start preschool like she did.
No redshirting here. As a matter of fact L started K a year early for few reasons, and has thrived. I'm a believer that baring any obvious issues, children will rise to the standard set for them.
Yep yep yep. I actually plan to make sure his is in a play based curriculum through three and then in a more academic pre-k.
Can you give me a rundown on what play based curriculum means? The place I enrolled Ada at does play based in the 2 and 3 class and only does academic pre-k in the 4's (or the year right before kindergarten). I asked a few questions while touring it but am not sure what the different between a play based vs academic 2 and 3 year class.