TwinkleToes, for half day kindergarten it is really hard to expect much. Ds' teacher added up her instruction time, and found that if all goes well, she has 90 minutes of instruction daily. They are also on a different daily schedule from the rest of the school, so sending a child to another room for math is a major scheduling problem. DS has a reading group with 4 kids all about the same reading level, and DS now has a computer program he can log into during math -- but the 10 minutes dedicated to a math activity is about how long it takes DS to get to the website, put in his batty password and log back out. Our goal consistently with half day has been to have things set up by the time he hits first grade. {DS now gets to go back to school in the afternoon a few days a week to meet a class in computer lab to work on this program, but mostly he's spending all his screen time on it at home.}
