Comments on: Sending a Smart Kid to Kindergarten

By: Soledad

Soledad — Wed, 10 May 2023 02:05:26 +0000

I often hear kids in class saying they are bored. Sometimes they are repeating what they hear at home. I have had students say “I act this way because I’m bored” When kids say they are bored I ask “what does boring mean?” In 5 years students have yet to explain it. I do get “ It means I don’t like it, it’s hard, it means I make bad choices” just to name a few. Getting smart kids to write well or journal is an awesome way to challenge them, I also let them draw pictures of things they learned or ask about things they want to know about.

By: Kim Vij

Kim Vij — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 14:10:05 +0000

In reply to Jessica L. Hicks. That must feel so disheartinging. There are several tips in this article to help you and your child. One thing you'll want to arrange with your child's teacher are enrichment activities he can do once he's finished the assigned tasks. Sending him with books he's chosen to read as well may help keep him positive and on task. One key skill they are also working on are social skills in Kindergarten which is important too.

By: Jessica L. Hicks

Jessica L. Hicks — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 08:33:19 +0000

My son is in kindergarten and does not want to do homework gets distracted in class says everything is for baby’s and boring. He was taken out of prek last year and placed in kindergarten for 3 hours a day because he wasn’t being challenged. I have already spoken with the teacher and, he hates school idk what to do!

By: SillyNilly

SillyNilly — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 01:24:28 +0000

In reply to Sarah. Yep. Why even send them to school? People wonder why everyone is having fewer children, there’s no way to do it and have a life at the same time because our institutions are broken and it doesn’t make economic sense to have a job just so you can pay a second mortgage for a decent education for your kid.

By: Patricia

Patricia — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 03:00:13 +0000

One thought: we enrolled our child in a dual language classroom (in public school, we are in Texas), which is a sort of immersion classroom. Half the kids speak primarily Spanish, half English, and the teacher teaches different things in each language. So he is learning letters and numbers that he already knows, but in Spanish. I think learning Spanish has been a saving grace for us! He LOVES it! He is still running into problems when he doesn’t want to do his work, but it may not be all because he is bored, he gets defiant about lots of things, so we are working on that. Also, personally, I wouldn’t do flashcards and worksheets and formal academic stuff at home. There are plenty of other ways to learn without that, like the author mentioned – art, cool science hands on stuff (we love kiwi crates), baking, sewing. Things they _can’t_ do at school.

By: Gen

Gen — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 15:51:37 +0000

I’m so glad I’m not the only mom who feels like this! We’ve only been in school for a month, and my kindergartner is so bored and getting into trouble. We repeated a 3rd year of preschool (which she LOVED) because she wasn’t socially or academically ready, but then she accelerated past the other kids in pre-k and was the top student reader in her class. Like others, her school’s kindergarten goals are to learn letters and sounds….and she’s already writing sentences with phonetic spelling. It’s so frustrating because my bright daughter loves to learn. We have a meeting with her kindergarten teacher and the instructional advisor at the school and I’ve printed out the curriculum standards and goals for English Language Arts and Math, and have found that my daughter’s proficient in many of them already. It’s ridiculous to think that after 7 hours of school, a 6 year old is going to be able, or want, to do more school work. They need free time for creative play and movement.

By: Barbara

Barbara — Wed, 04 Sep 2019 16:26:30 +0000

I thought I was going crazy! I have finally found parents who seem to have the same concerns. My husband and I put our kindergartener in a private school because we felt he was a little bit more advanced and we didn’t want him to get bored. He was our first child and really we don’t have any good example to compare him with. In reality we figured most parents think their kid is special but those last 3 weeks have been frustrating for all of us. I know they learn so much more in kindergarten but he comes home and says school is boring. He went to preschool and was always so excited about learning. I know the days are longer now. He loves math and he’s doing second grade math with my nephew. I literally printed the same homework for both of them and he did it without problems. He loves it and he gets excited. The curriculum for the school says the kids will learn to count to 100 by the end of the year and basic maths. He can read simple sentences, school said they will learn how to sound the letters by the end of the year. At this point I am forced to do more challenging work with him after school and on the weekend. I just don’t know what to do. I don’t want to approach teacher and act like my kid is the only one who needs special attention. I don’t want to be that parent. I am a little disappointed also in the teacher because I thought at least one of them will notice that he can read. This kid loves learning. They did test him before getting admitted to the school and we were told he tested above average.

By: Christine

Christine — Thu, 28 Mar 2019 04:43:23 +0000

We are having similar issues here, too, with our kindergartner. He was so excited to go to school to learn new things. I think now he’s totally frustrated with the whole situation. The school year has gotten progressively worse to the point that now he is in the principal’s or counselor’s office most of the day. This has been going on for three weeks now. I keep telling them he’s bored and his mind is not being challenged. They say he needs to learn to be socially more mature and accept boundaries, etc.. I keep thinking, the normal kids are all happy because they are challenged and interested in what they are learning. He’s not happy and he’s not shy or reserved enough to put up with it. He’s fighting it because he can’t seem to figure out how to articulate it….what do we do as parents?

By: Nelli

Nelli — Fri, 15 Mar 2019 01:29:55 +0000

In reply to Sarah.

I totally agree with you!!! This is what I always say. I literally homeschool every night, after a full day at work for me, and a full day at school and after school care for her… It’s exhausting for both of us… And she’s only in kindergarten.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 12:13:06 +0000

This frustrates me. It feels like school is daycare and then my child comes home to actually learn. Or they have to learn from either reading or workbooks on their own. Homeschool in evenings and weekends? When are they supposed to play? What about all the other stuff kids do in evenings and weekends – swim lessons, church, family gatherings. Forcing a highly curious kid to wait it out all day while maintaining good behavior seems miserable for everyone involved.