Update:
DS is enjoying Kindergarten and is eager to go each morning. I'm glad for that! He reports that it is very "eeeaaasssyyy". Today they learned a song about how to spell "red" which is the color of the week. They also watched a video about the word "the". DS says his reading partner doesn't really read. DS reads the book first and then his partner copies him. (That may be what the teacher intended, I'm not sure.) DS tells me he would like to read more challenging books at school. He says the math is really easy "like 1+1". I know it's the beginning of the year, but I see the work he brings home and it's stuff like differentiating between letters and numbers and coloring things the color of the week.
I'm not sure what I want to do at this point, DS seems happy for now and he is practicing reading and writing and doing math at home. I'm not really sure what (if anything) I should ask the teacher to do. He's not really mature enough to work independently on something and I'm sure she doesn't have the time to work with him individually. Does anybody have any ideas of how to get him working at his level in class? I hate to send him to school for 3 hours and then spend 30 min. doing his real work at home. It would be better if he could do his work at school and have free time to play at home.
Cathy
