Pre School... I realize everyone's children are running a different race.
Our son is 4 now and a lot of his peers parents have bent over backwards to get their kids signed up into Pre School.
We did the Kindergarten screening for public schools last year and he passed the criteria, so technically he is kindergarten ready.
The options we have here are full day and half day, 2 to 3 days a week.
Our daycare provider (In home) does do a scheduled "pre school" curriculum, but even the other 4 year old is leaving daycare to go to an "official" pre school.
Pre school costs range anywhere from $2000 upwards, and it's just a cost I feel might not provide the ROI...also it's quite difficult to our working schedules that me and DW have.
Did you kids go to pre school, and what are your thoughts?
In terms of development, he is not socially awkward, he has no learning disabilities that we know of, great vision, he has an incredible memory and knows his ABC, his name, his address, my phone # he is starting to read small books like "Sam and Cat" and honestly...I think he has developed just fine.
We are worried that since his best buddy is going off to Pre school he will lose touch with the younger kids being his new closest playmates. Probably not a huge concern, but likely the one biggest concern we have.
To combat that, our plan was to just enroll him in some extra curricular things and try and sort of pickup the slack ourselves creatinga 2x nightly Pre-School routine...of course this would be at home with us, but I feel like it's a good second option in place of the expensive, and less than ideal schedules (He would need to get on a bus from daycare and go to pre school for 2.5hours and then get sent back from the bus about 5 miles back to daycare).
HELP! Lol.
Our son is 4 now and a lot of his peers parents have bent over backwards to get their kids signed up into Pre School.
We did the Kindergarten screening for public schools last year and he passed the criteria, so technically he is kindergarten ready.
The options we have here are full day and half day, 2 to 3 days a week.
Our daycare provider (In home) does do a scheduled "pre school" curriculum, but even the other 4 year old is leaving daycare to go to an "official" pre school.
Pre school costs range anywhere from $2000 upwards, and it's just a cost I feel might not provide the ROI...also it's quite difficult to our working schedules that me and DW have.
Did you kids go to pre school, and what are your thoughts?
In terms of development, he is not socially awkward, he has no learning disabilities that we know of, great vision, he has an incredible memory and knows his ABC, his name, his address, my phone # he is starting to read small books like "Sam and Cat" and honestly...I think he has developed just fine.
We are worried that since his best buddy is going off to Pre school he will lose touch with the younger kids being his new closest playmates. Probably not a huge concern, but likely the one biggest concern we have.
To combat that, our plan was to just enroll him in some extra curricular things and try and sort of pickup the slack ourselves creatinga 2x nightly Pre-School routine...of course this would be at home with us, but I feel like it's a good second option in place of the expensive, and less than ideal schedules (He would need to get on a bus from daycare and go to pre school for 2.5hours and then get sent back from the bus about 5 miles back to daycare).
HELP! Lol.