When do kids learn months of the year?

[CurlyQ284]

My SDs live 8 hours away with their mom so they go to school there. We have them for summer break, they are 9 and 11. I found out tonight they don't know months of the year. They can't name them in order,they completely forget some months and they couldn't say what the first month of the year was. I am alarmed but DH seems to think that's fine. It doesn't make sense that they would learn multiplication and long division before the months of the year. Thoughts?

[saraandmichael]

Before kindergarten.

[smucky]

Very odd. Here, this is learned in Pre-K and Kinder.

[softspot]

It's also taught in Pre-school & Kindergarten here.

[polarbearfans]

That seems odd.

[melindafelinda]

I had to explain this to some dude I work with last month. He is like 32 I think.

ETA: I found this out when he filled out all of his paperwork with signature dates in the future and he didn't understand that the date had not even passed yet so there was no way he signed the correct date. I now call him Future Boy.

[statlerwaldorf]

It is on DD's curriculum for 3 year old pre-k. I would think most kids would know them by first grade.

[CurlyQ284]

OK, we are quizzing them now and they are doing much better. Maybe its a summer brain thing? Jeez that was scary. I'm going to keep asking randomly just to make sure.

[cbwm1]

Will learned it this last year of pre-k. They started right away and he knew them within a month of turning 3.

[Deleted]

p&p are 9 and 10. I'm preeeeeetty sure they've known their months for years. I'll ask them when they get back.

[speckledfrog]

What? They learn that in Pre-K. Definitely in kindergarten.

[speckledfrog]

In light of the post from last week (I think), can they tell time on an analog clock?

[CurlyQ284]

Aug 10, 2012 19:27:07 GMT -5 @cse1960 said:

My kids knew them before they could talk.

ok, maybe not. lol

Kindergarten, at the latest. What else don't they know?

I haven't found much else that they don't know that made my jaw drop or anything but who knows. We do a lot of educational stuff in summer, we live near DC so we do all the museums all the time. We also put them and make sure every other week is a educational one so its not like they're lazing it up all summer mentally or anything.

[mommylikestattoos]

Preschool/Kindergarten. Although I did student teach in an "at-risk" first grade classroom this past winter and a LOT of those students were struggling. But still, they were only 6 or 7.

[CurlyQ284]

Aug 10, 2012 19:36:16 GMT -5 speckledfrog said:

In light of the post from last week (I think), can they tell time on an analog clock?

I just asked and they told me the correct time, and ours has Roman numerals. I didn't post last week, I've been crazy busy this summer and I've missed a lot

[Deleted]

p&p just listed them off and looked at me like I was stupid for even asking.

[EmilieMadison]

Preschool.

[textbookcase]

Definitely preschool.

We had our 11 year old nephew over a few months ago and Keira (5, she is going into first grade) was naming the continents. He didn't know the continents. Like, at all. He didn't even know how many there are.

[tacokick]

PreK. When I taught they knew them coming into K.