I am stressed. I am having the hardest time deciding if we should go ahead with kindergarten or do another year of pre-k for gracie. gracie is a mid-july birthday(so is noah) so we have two choices: a.) go to kindergarten and be the absolute youngest. or b.) do another year of pre-k and be closer to the older side. she is academically ready for kindergarten. she can write her first and last name, recognize most upper and lower case letters, count to 100 etc... but i am not sure if she has the maturity to pay attention/sit in her seat quietly for long periods of time which is expected in kindergarten. i know that those skills will come and honestly if we send her to kindergarten she will be fine. however, i don't want her to be just, fine. i want her to be excited about school and learning. i don't want her to start as the underdog. gracie is a natural leader and the odds of her being able to be the leader as the smallest and youngest, are very small. i don't like that.
the other side of the coin is, will she be challenged enough if we do another year of pre-k? we peeked in on the pre-k class that she will join if we decide to go that route this morning and she asked if she could do the seat work with the kids. the teacher gave her the same work and she finished the work perfectly and before most of the other kids.
this is so hard. i just want to do what is best for grace. i wish i could stop going back in fourth in my head about it. some days my mommy gut says send her, then i start having anxiety about her not being ready. other days i am thinking keep her another year, then she reminds me how smart she is and i am second guessing myself again! blahhhhhhhhhhh i need a help.
please lord help corey and i make the best decision for gracie. obviously, you know what she needs best, so please, please, please tell me what that is. amen.
i am going to go pull my hair out more about this issue.
xo
joanna
I say send her to Kindergarten. If she needs to go to Kindergarten twice, then do that (but it doesn't sound like that would happen). But in CPS the cutoff is September birthdays. So I don't know that she would have an option. Just my two cents.
ReplyDeletewe are having the same debate with Hailey. Hailey is just fine academically but unlike Gracie she's not a "leader" she questions herself a lot and thinks everyone knows more than she does (which they dont.) But her best friend at school is going a year late so she is almost an entire year older than Hailey. This kid can do addition and subtraction, read, knows small division.. shes really ahead so that makes Hailey really question herself and Im scared of her going into kindergarten doubting herself even more than she does now. So trust me.. even though it doesnt help you in your decision.. other parents are feeling the same way!
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