Kindergarten update, in case you're curious...

[kentuckymom]

Many of you helped me think through my decision in the spring to send Kittygirl to a Spanish Immersion Magnet school for kindergarten, so, now that we're six weeks in, I thought I'd give an update.

 

In short, it's wonderful.

 

She's learned an amazing amount of Spanish, but, even without that, I'm thrilled with the school. There's lots of movement during class and all the work I've heard about is developmentally appropriate. They're working on phonemic awareness and letter sounds, in stark opposition to her brother's kindergarten classroom, where there was a huge sight work emphasis and lots of seatwork.

 

Yesterday it rained during recess, but they still got to go outside and play with chalk in a roofed over concrete area adjacent to the playground.

 

After my son's public elementary school experience, which had quite a few good aspects, but also often frustrated me, I was nervous about sending my free spirited little girl into that environment, but it turns out the environment I've sent her into is different from his kindergarten environment in all the best ways. I wish every child in public school could have this kind of experience.

 

I do admit there are days when I wish I were homeschooling her simply for the sake of convenience. It's kind of annoying to have to tailor our schedule to her school schedule and be done by 2pm every day so we can go pick her up, but it's really far and away the best place for her right now and I'm so happy I chose it.

[December]

So jealous of people who have immersion schools as an option!  I love homeschooling but I could not pass up on the opportunity for my children to learn another language to the degree they could in an immersion school if I had the option.

[UCF612]

Glad it's going so well!

[Homeschoolmom3]

So jealous of people who have immersion schools as an option!  I love homeschooling but I could not pass up on the opportunity for my children to learn another language to the degree they could in an immersion school if I had the option.

 

I agree!  Wish we had it around here as well!  A great opportunity and glad it is going well!