Hi - I guess I could have put this in learning environments too...
DD$ is due to start kindy equiv (new entrants) next May. After looking into the curriculum I had to get to year 5 before finding math content she wasn't yet familiar with. In the year 4 level she is familiar and competent with 80% of the work, and about 90% of the year 3 work.
My question is for the next 9 months should I keep going with her interests and let school figure out what level to teach her at, or should I try and fill in those knowledge gaps so that they can facilitate acceleration easier?
I don't want her having to spend years going over the same stuff, but at the same time I'm an un schooler at heart so I don't love the idea of introducing/pressuring topics she's not overly interested in yet.
She is still learning to read so she is not ready to grade skip yet - although even in the last week we have had a knowledge explosion so who knows with that!
Any advice from the BTDTers?
