My thoughts are below about the said article.
I think that kindergarderns having to already read and do math before kindergarden is way to hard. It's not fair to them make them do that. That is why we go to school to learn. Yes, learning some of those things helps at home but beind forced to do that before had is dumb. Even more so, being held back at the end of the year if you don't know how to do that. If that was the rule back in 1991, I would not have pass kindergarden. Yeah I knew how to read alittle but I was the best reader and I couldn't do math well. I had to go to a special math class in the 1st grade for extra help in. It was there in the 1st grade that I learned how to work with 2 digit math problems.
Taking away a kids recess in kindergarden no wonder they act up or go crazy in the classroom they have all this engery and they need to release it. Plus doing all that class work for what 6.5 hours straight a day might make them crazy I kno. I know that when I study for that long I go crazy. Even here in college, in my dorm room I have a mr.potato head and sometimes even play dough. Why? Because it helps take away the stress that school brings to me! Ven I didn't have that I think I would go loco!
I think kindgraden should be the time to learn and grow. Much like agraden does when it is well tend to and the flowers bloom and look every soo pretty.
In the fall we tend our gardern perhaps even get it ready to plant for the spring, in the spring we plant our flowers and watch them grow.Much like kindgarden we tend to them in the fall by the spring they are geared for school, by the end of spring they are wounderful future first graders who are bloomed and have grown in school!
We don't need to press our 5 and 6 years olds into long days, just bceause they do that over seas does not mean that we have to do that in America
My Days in Kindgarden
When I first went into kindergarden I don't think I even knew how to read and that was nearly 15 years ago. To this day I remeber things I did there and even things that I got in trouble for. the class room had rug which we sat on and our teacher read to us. when we started learning our ABC's whe took home the letter and a piece of paper and we had to cut out things from maganizes or newspapers that started with that letter. At the end of the year the teacher put togather our very own ABC book of our very own to take home of all our ABC's homework. It was a lot of fun! I learned what numbers where and how to count and about colors.
I remeber playing house at school with our little kitcen set we had in one of our play areas. I also remeber having to have nap time. Going to music class once a week where we sang songs, I remeber go out side to receses(and getting left behind at the water fountain because I feel a sleep and my teacher didn't wake me. I couldn't find my class so I had to pull a red ticket!)
I remeber coloring a school bus and I wanted to color my school bus purple because at the time that was my favorite color. My teacher told me I had to color it the right color, but she did give-in and told me I could color the part that says School bus purple. Guess this should have my first clue that it was the start of kids having to conform to the new press of kindergardners.
This past weekend, (well Thrusday) the UAM weevils traveled 8.5 hours(or so) to Stepnville, Texas to play against the Texans at Tarleton State. The drive was long. It was a little different to drive to Texas and not go home to my house.
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