workingmom Posted February 1, 2017 Share Posted February 1, 2017 This year we thought we'd do AS to help solidify academics for DS 2nd grade. She is on the younger end but does great one on one. It's in a big class full of friends (small private school ) where she knows everyone she spends the day taking and distracted It's not helping and for other reasons decided to finish up the year. She really needs to learn more responsibility as her teacher says she forgets to bring home books etc. Looking into Montessori school for next years. Classroom will be grades 1-3. Anyone have experience with Montessori for elementary grades. Hoping to be able to drop AS or just keep for foreign language. Current shook has a ton of hw which drives me crazy to keep up with that and AS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
workingmom Posted February 3, 2017 Author Share Posted February 3, 2017 I was hoping Montessori might help with the maturity/grade mismatch in some subjects thus allowing her to gain confidence in what she's strong in and work at a decent pace in her weaker subjects. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
workingmom Posted February 11, 2017 Author Share Posted February 11, 2017 Well the grass always does seem greener on the other side. After shadowing at the Montessori DD was not impressed, she said it was too easy and the kids were all using "bad words:)" Other moms said one issue was that if the kid didn't want to work on a particular subject they weren't pushed. Her son didn't do math for 3 weeks. Which is exactly what I don't want. So final call is try to put a small academic lesson in each day during the summer where she solidifies some of last year's stuff and work on teaching a bit more responsibility (maybe a weekly checklist). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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