Skssftly-that is true about first grade an reading, from what I understand. Apparently they do not all learn to read before entering kinder and they don't have to read well to pass to 1st grade. I was really surprised by that. Actually, my step mom used to be a kindergarden teacher and DD's former kinder teacher verifies that as many as half of them aren't reading fluently when they leave kinder, they don't know shapes, colors, some can't even count to 10 and don't actually know all the letters of the alphabet (especially the infrequently used ones).
No wonder DD#1 wasn't opening up to me. She can't trust me and probably thinks I'm a moron for leaving her in that class of unstimulating "babies" who can't read, lol!
