LMom,
DD is 4 yr old.
She will start learning to write (I mean with pen/cil) when she is 6. They say in the school that before children do not have the neccessary fine motor skill to properly write.
She likes to try it anyway and we kind of practice at home though.
The academics are not too deep here. There are numbers up to 100 but it is enough that she learns to count until 10. She still gets stuck between 6 and 9 but I do not think to will need two years to learn this...
And for reading, she should be able to know the letters/phonemas and maybe read words, but the real reading is done when she will be 6 at the next group (6 to 9 yr old).
Right now, she says she is bored, she only likes to cut with the scissors and to color, the gym class and the music lesson. She says she does not like the actual Montessori activities.
Appartenly she tried to get 5 of them at the same time and was told no way, first do one, finish it, then do the next and so on.
When she comes out she looks like the 'brightness' that used to show in her eyes is switch off.
The teacher says that she looks happy and well adapted and does not seem to find any problem. Only that she does not like to work alone, so 'please I should get her used to play a little on her own at home'.
