First Grade: Child
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Allowance and Chores for a 6 Year Old Entering 1St Grade
Asked by C.R. from Phoenix
on June 16, 2010
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Hello Mamas,
My daughter is a mature 6 year old who will be entering 1st grade in the Fall. I'd like to start giving her chores and paying her an allowance. Can you...
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- I have an 11yr old and a 4 year old. What works best with us is what we call the "brownie points" system. Each child has their assigned chores that are age appropriate...
- My daughter has a chore chart. She has one chore for each weekday. Either washing the table after dinner, setting the table, picking up the books from living room ta...
- My children (ages 7, 4 and 2) all have a chore chart. My 2 year old has to pick up 2 items and put it away to get a sticker. My 4 year old has other things on it, bu...
Websites for 6 Year Old
Asked by J.V. from Milwaukee
on July 7, 2009
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I have a 6 year old and a 3 year old. I am looking for some suggestions for websites that are age appropriate. We already go on Playhouse Disney and PBS. Are there ...
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- What everyone said is great. Also try buildabear.com. You don't have to own a bear in order to play their games.
- We do uptoten.com for our 5 year old. It's mostly educational games and music and such. It can be done in French too, and some of it is very weird, but in a way that's...
- One of children's favorite websites is www.marvelkids.com On that site, the kids can create their own superhero. (Scroll to the bottom of the page, it's a box on the ...
I Am Unsure If My 5 Year Old Is Ready for First Grade.
Asked by D.M. from Florence
on May 14, 2008
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I have a 5 year old in kindergarten this year and he is the youngest kid in his class. He turns 6 June 3rd. Most of the kids in his class have been 6 either the entire...
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- D., I have 3 boys my oldest was in 1st grade when his teacher suggested we hold him back. I refused because his younger brother was coming into 1st grade. It would ha...
- My son just turn 6 on the 14th. He also is in kindergaten. I am surprised when you said there were 7 year olds in his kindergarten class. Most of the kids in my so...
- Pre-first IS kindergarten! Send him to first grade, where he is supposed to be! Your son is the perfect age. The other kids are too old! :) They probably got a late...
Help with a 6 Year Old
Asked by M.B. from Saginaw
on November 12, 2006
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I need help with my 6 year old he's outta hand. He likes to tell me waht to do and not to listen to me. Any time you tell him to do something he throws a fit. If he do...
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- Boy can I ever relate to this!! I am a mother of an 8yo boy, 4yo girl, and 3yo boy. I am single also, but recently my boyfriend just moved in with us. I was working...
- I don't think my advise is going to be pretty either, sounds to me like dad is the problem in a nut shell. It is extremely hard to be a single mom I was one for 7 year...
- HI M., I have a 7 yr old son and everyone asks me how i get him to behave so well. I even get free offers for babysitting. Well the answer I spend time with him . I ...
2Nd Grade
Asked by J.M. from Houston
on April 17, 2012
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My daughter went to private school since she was 2 and is not going into 2nd grade next year. I want to move her to public school I think she will get more out of it w...
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- You would want to contact the public school where she will be enrolled and ask them. Typically if she has completed a 1st grade curriculum from an ACCREDITED program ...
- You do not say in your post but I am assuming that you started your child early into a grade and now they are young for the grade they are going into? Otherwise there...
- I don't think age is a factor once they've started school. As long as she passed first grade, she should go into second grade next year, no matter what her age.
Skipping a Grade
Asked by A. from Minneapolis
on October 19, 2010
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My son is in second grade, and he is advanced in math and reading at a 5th grade level. We are having conversations with his teacher and principal about moving him to ...
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- Ask about a gifted/talented program instead. You are right to be cautious about the social impacts of skipping a grade. Now, and for in the future (when his classmat...
- My granddaughter who is now in 1st grade was also recommended to advance classes because of her intelligence. I strongly advised my daughter against it. I went to a ...
- Have you explored "gifted and talented" programs in your school district? This would put your child in a class with other children who are the same age and grade leve...
Help! Preparing for 1St Grade
Asked by N.D. from Chicago
on April 23, 2008
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Hi Moms-
I am wondering if any of you can share with me some of the things that your child learned in 1st Grade. My son has been recently recommended to skip Kinde...
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- I am a kindergarten teacher and expectations are pretty high. It's not too often you hear of skipping grades. Kindergarten is like first grade used to be. I would l...
- Hi N.- My daughter is in the 1st grade right now and they are learning how to read, adding subtracting, learning time. They are also learning about different cultures...
- My son is in first grade now and what helped him the most knowing his site words and math facts. Ask the first grade teacher for a list of site words he will need to ...
Skipping a Grade
Asked by K.B. from Kansas City
on May 6, 2009
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I am faced with the decision of letting my 7 year (1st Grade) old skip the 2nd grade. He was going to the 2nd grade for reading and math time, so he could continue to ...
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- Only you know best, but when you said you would hold him back in a heartbeat, that needs to be thought through. If you would hold him back, he may not be ready to mov...
- I was faced with a similar situation. My oldest is "too smart" for her age group so I moved her up where she would be the youngest. I had had her eval to make sure thi...
- You have sooo many responses and I am very late in my response, but I just made this decision this past fall. My son is also in 1st grade. He went to 2nd grade readi...
My 5 Year Old Has Excema
Asked by A.G. from Wichita
on February 19, 2008
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My 5 year old daughter has excema. When she was an infant, it was so bad that she has scratches all over her face. She was reffered to a determatologist. He gave me so...
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- A., I feel for you and your little one, my little girl is 5 now and we have fought this for years!! It got to the point she had a big bald spot on her head I was so sc...
- My neighbors child have horrible excema and I finally convinced her to go to Children's Mercy and see a determatolist and within a few weeks of seeing the doctor she h...
- Two things A....my daughter had that all her life....I took her to Children's hospital..they helped her...they said they make newer things constantly..at the time they...
Home Schooling for 1St Grade
Asked by A.G. from Portland
on June 9, 2009
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Hello ladies--
I'm planning on home schooling my son (1st grade) and was wondering what programs you would recommend as well as what websites I could refer to, to get...
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- I use WAVA which is online public school. I love it! It gives me all the curriculum and supplies for free and I have the choice to teach the lessons however I want or ...
- We are using the Robinson Curriculum. It has a religious background but, of course you don't have to follow any of that if you choose not to. Our grandson, who is 9,...
- I use Sonlight Curriculum. It is a fantastic curriculum and comes with a teacher's guide that is set up for 4-day or 5-day school. To get a look at it you can go to ww...
