As a primary educator who has worked with young elementary students for more than a decade, I have witnessed parents delay their children’s start in kindergarten quite often. And they have had several reasons to do so. Some reasons are …
In Illinois, a child can begin kindergarten at the age of five as long as they have turned five years old by September first of that school year. Some parents wait until the child is six years old and better …
As a father of a three-year-old daughter and a one-year-old son, I am in a bit of a pickle when it comes to deciding whether our children will thrive in a preschool setting. I have been a primary elementary school …
The age old practice of teaching children the letters of the alphabet and the sounds they make (“B says buh”) is still relevant and important. As you know, letters make words, which make up spoken and written sentences. A child’s …