Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Kindergarten Girl!

My "little bit" is in Kindergarten! I could've sworn it was just yesterday I was enduring mag sulfate and betamethasone just to get her here safely and now she's shot right on through infancy, toddler hood, the preschool years and is just a regular ol' kid! I can feel the pre-teen years sneaking up on me!

She is technically "early"--her birthday's not for another month. Don't get me started on arbitrary age cut-offs. I really struggled about whether to keep her where she "should have" been and moving forward, but as we've gotten closer to this fall it's become more and more apparent that she does NOT belong in another year of pre-school. It's also become very apparent that public school would NOT work for her at this point (she would be bored out of her mind in a kindergarten room, especially if she had to wait a whole 'nother year!). So, she is staying with her montessori school for now and we will homeschool next year and take it a year at a time after that. I wish I could keep her in a good montessori program, but there aren't any in our town for older kiddos.

She is very excited to be back at school. She's been bugging us all summer to do workbooks (even on vacation!) and I'm kinda sick of telling her to just go play!!!! Her teacher has been sort of testing her out the last two days to get a good handle on what she should be doing this year and she is at the beginning of second grade with her reading and late first/early second grade with her math....and she's still not five! If we let her have her way, the child just might read the whole library before she's 10! ;-)

3 comments:

Veronica said...

Our girls are so grown up!! I love the look Sedona is giving her big sissy!

Karen said...

She has grown so much too, and that outfit is so cute! You can check out a k12 program, that way she can go at her own pace and be at her own level. It's a homeschool program, just an idea.

Rhea@mommy23monkeys said...

I am so grateful because my son just started Kindergarten in a Public Montessori program. SO far he's loving it! Your girls are beautiful!

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