Alice Homeschools
A Home Based Education - Kindergarten year

For the Kindergarten year, I’ve only been working on the three r’s - reading, ‘riting, and ‘rithmatic. I know, I feel funny writing those words that way too.

For math we have a few workbooks - Kumon and Evan-Moor bought at Barnes and Noble - as well as flash cards and worksheets printed from a math worksheet creator.

Then earlier this week I read on a blog (I don’t remember where!) about the public school (located wherever the author was located) didn’t teach multiplication tables in school anymore. The teacher told the author (the dad of the child in public school) that the smart ones would pick it up.

What!?! Seriously, did a teacher think saying that was okay? That is just flat out ridiculus.

But also in that article, the dad linked to Singapore Math. There are placement tests for grades first through sixth, but none for kindergarten (here is the placement guide for the tests) So I printed off a 1A test and gave it to my daughter. Everything that we have been studying - more and less, addition, subtraction, guessing, patterns, and more - she did great on. There are a few things she didn’t have a clue about though we didn’t finish the test. I am going to give it to her again at the end of the year and maybe buy the 1A book for her to do during the summer. I know, school in the summer! But not as much as we are doing every day now.