I found a pretty cool thing about 5-year-olds: http://www.economist.com/blogs/johnson/2013/05/vocabulary-size A 5 year old can learn 20-30 words a day. A 5 year old can learn a new language faster and more fluently than the world's best university professors of linguistics. A 5 year old can learn a new language fluently within 3-4 months. In one year, a well schooled 5 year old can learn English, French, Arabic and Mandarin with native fluency. 5 year olds are the Black Belts of Language.
That does not surprise me at all. It's astonishing to watch kids that age acquire language. Quentin was precocious enough as a toddler - he was on the later edge to talk, like 16 months, but went from baby talk to 8-10 word sentences in the span of like 6 months.
Wow. Kindergarten. Time does fly. I hope it goes wonderfully well and that he loves it. Will it be half day or full day? They don't give the half day option now at Cordelia's school. She was in the last year that had that option and, as I said I had no preference when it came to half day or full day, ended up in the half day class.
I remember having very mixed feelings when Cordelia started kindergarten. It meant spending a lot less time with her and was the start of scheduling everything around the school day and school year. I know I worried a lot (but that's largely because that's what I do) because it was hard to have something so important to my child be so utterly outside of my control.
I think AAPS switched over all the kindergartens to full day last year, but we would have picked a full day school regardless. Fortunately, he's been in full time daycare since 3-4 months, so the separation/schedule is old hat to us, thankfully. That would have been a big change on top of already big changes.
The more extensive social/community calendar and school breaks are going to be the big challenge for us.
(Glad to see you're on the med from surgery! Been thinking about you!)
School breaks are a huge challenge for families. I get the impression that everything fills up fast. Single days off are harder, especially things like snow days that are unexpected. I've felt very lucky to be at home when all of those things come up.
We're very fortunate in that we can go back to his daycare, space-depending, for breaks, and they usually never have issues with having to turn people down. We're already signed up to go back there in the summer.
Quentin's at Carpenter, which is just a few streets down from our house.
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I found a pretty cool thing about 5-year-olds:
http://www.economist.com/blogs/johnson/2013/05/vocabulary-size
A 5 year old can learn 20-30 words a day.
A 5 year old can learn a new language faster and more fluently than the world's best university professors of linguistics.
A 5 year old can learn a new language fluently within 3-4 months.
In one year, a well schooled 5 year old can learn English, French, Arabic and Mandarin with native fluency.
5 year olds are the Black Belts of Language.
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I remember having very mixed feelings when Cordelia started kindergarten. It meant spending a lot less time with her and was the start of scheduling everything around the school day and school year. I know I worried a lot (but that's largely because that's what I do) because it was hard to have something so important to my child be so utterly outside of my control.
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The more extensive social/community calendar and school breaks are going to be the big challenge for us.
(Glad to see you're on the med from surgery! Been thinking about you!)
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Which school are you at?
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Quentin's at Carpenter, which is just a few streets down from our house.
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WOW! i swear just last week i was reading that he had turned 2.
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