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my son is only 2.6 and i am getting him admitted in a preschool.
is it early????
my son is very smart. knows many rhymes alphabets and what they stand for i mean a-apple and also recognises their pics.
he knows counting till 30 is it early for him???
he is very keen to going to school.

I am not sure that is too early, of course it depends on the child and the school/teacher. Many preschools are less age oriented than the older grades, we are in a program which mixes from age 3-5 (supposedly, although I just found out they weight one classroom with more younger kids and the other with more older kids).

The language stuff seems to be less clear/more varied with kids than the math; I do think counting that high at 2 is very unusual!

Welcome to the board, I hope you find some good info.

I am still working on my dd4's possible admission to K, will post more when I get some feedback from the school.

Posting back, I was very pleased to find out that today dd4 was taken over to the k classroom to look around and be observed. I heard this only from the preschool teacher when I picked her up; she said the K teacher thought she did really well!
Then she said the k teacher would probably come into the preschool room as well and see how dd is doing there, not exactly sure what is up with that, but it sounds like the whole k thing might be a possibility after all, so I am very hopeful (although obviously not a done-deal!) yikes!
I am still on pins and needles waiting to hear back from the math/science magnet school for my ds10; he was accepted for the program but they are very short on room, so if just a couple kids are not returning to the school, he still has a shot. Keeping all my fingers crossed.

Well, it's possible (just possible) that they have finally decided to take dd4 into the K classroom. I asked the second preschool teacher if she'd heard anything and she said, as of today, the K teacher had mentioned to teacher#1 that dd was going to kindergarten and to prepare her things for the big 'move'...
I will find out soon for 'real', I guess. Second guessing myself of course, but I think we will give it a try if it really is going to happen.
Ds10 did not get a space in the elementary math/science program for 5th grade, however we are ok with that as he ended up with what appears to be a fantastic teacher for the year at his regular ps and it is very nice that he won't be starting from scratch making friends.

Yea on the possibility! I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you and DD!

What a relief! Yippee!
Grinity

Yeah, even yesterday it was still 'up in the air' apparently(!), but I actually got an email today indicating she is ok'd by some coordinator or other to go forward. There will be some kind of revisit around the first month or so. I am taking someone's earlier advice and asking if they would like to talk now about what 'success' criteria would be.

Dang, I really can NOT believe this was ok'd (11 days before the start of the school year! )

Thanks to everyone for good thoughts/info and ideas! Dd4 is really excited

Yippee! Love the idea to ask for success criteria in advance. Will really focus the staff.
Yippee!

Great news Chris. I hope it works out for you and your DD!