Originally Posted by mrsmichelle:
I 'm a former Kindergarten teacher that knows how to teach this stuff, but, no way should she expect you to do this!!! It 's great when kids can read early, but she can do that at home, and you keep on doing what you typically do. Letter sounds, recognition is all appropriate stuff for her age -anything extra is not something you should have to do Imo.
Kindergarten teachers here are always telling providers what you are saying along with teaching social skills. They also tell us that if a child can't get along with others or follow directions first, they will have trouble learning in a school setting. It is the parents along with the QRIS/Federal-State-guidelines that are creeping up in our early childhood system wanting kids to be IT-TECH robots rather than kids that know how to function with daily life skills.
