Hi, and thanks for answering. I was long winded in my first post, but I have started trying to dig up what are the typical pre-K/K skills. I suspect she is close to if not at many of these already.
She counts objects (not sure how high, maybe I should see) and rote counts to 30. Knows most uppercase letters (maybe all), knows all her colors, shapes (circle, square, oval, hexagon, triangle, heart, diamond etc). Recognizes her written name, and her sister's written name (it's short), maybe some other simple words. Can tell us full name, address, town, state. I should teach her our phone number I guess. Sings too many different songs for me to count, memorizes whole books. Identifies when characters in pictures etc are sad/happy/mean. Loves puzzles.
Yesterday after work my DH brought home a Darth Vader Mr Potato head, from a coworker cleaning up his cube, for her (or not, who knows). It is kind of scary looking with the mask, arms, cape but we did not discuss this with her or each other.
We played with it before bedtime. She decided to stow it away on a higher shelf (So baby sister won't get it) and facing backward because "he looks funny" - like she didn't want it creeping her out when she's not playing with it!
She just got moved into the next age up room at the day care. I'm interested to see what new experiences she'll have there.
I think I have a lot of reading to do.
