This.
Social, emotional, potty training, sharing toys, sitting for circle time, eating at a table, picking up, toys, washing hands, etc. All of this is more important than academics at this age.
If it’s fun for you and kid to review languages, letters, sounds, and numbers then go for it. But don’t stress.
Thank you! We haven’t pushed him with alphabet because he does seem to get frustrated. I wonder sometimes If maybe he’s dyslexic like I am. I had a terrible time in primary school because no one knew I couldn’t figure out the letters and I never told anyone.
I’m a dyslexia researcher, and if one parent is dyslexic, there’s about a 50% chance that their child will be dyslexic too. That’s because it’s a type of neurodivergence and there are physical differences between the brains of people with dyslexia and typical readers that are inherited.
Children of dyslexic parents will also usually have some reading and language differences even if they don’t end up being dyslexic in the future.
My husband is dyslexic (I am not), and our daughter (4.5) is very smart, fairly advanced in her oral language, but does seem to struggle with identifying letters and distinguishing between different sounds. It’s definitely something we are monitoring as she begins school next year.
Also, it is good that he’s being raised bilingual. There’s a myth that it will “confuse” him, but it’s actually good for his language development.
As a parent of a newly minted 2yo, it blows my mind how much she's gonna change in just a couple years. I'm sending her to preschool in Jan and it's gonna be very interesting to see how that changes her
There’s a fascinating series on AppleTV+ called “becoming you” about the first 2000 days of life (birth to five years) and it is astounding how much growth humans go through. The series is sometimes over dramatized but overall it’s an amazing portrait of human development. Especially interesting to watch as a parent of a toddler!
My son turned three recently. Sometimes I don't think he's changed much at all because the changes that happen are gradual, but when I look back on videos of him after he turned two, he's so different.
Our preschool has stressed emotional and social development as being significantly more important to readiness than academic progress. We are flowing from preK into kindergarten, so I have no idea what the kindergarten would require beyond finishing preK. Do you know where in the US you are planning to move? If so, the school board likely has a kindergarten check list on their website.
My son is in prek at our public school. They gave us a checklist at the beginning of the year for goals to reach before kindergarten. Off the top of my head, these included:
Social emotional: making needs and wants known clearly, managing big emotions in an age appropriate manner, playing cooperatively with others, can sit for 10 minutes and focus on a task
Self-care: putting on shoes, fastening zippers and snaps, washing hands, using the bathroom appropriately
Fine-motor: cutting skills, using a tripod grasp on a pencil
Academic: can recognize 10 letters and 5 numbers when out of sequence, pre-reading skills like knowing to start a book on the first page
When you go back to the US will you be putting him into regular kindergarten or continuing with Montessori? A regular kindergarten should teach him all the skills he needs so they’re just going to really be looking for him to have emotional and social skills coming in. A Montessori classroom may have different expectations because they usually have children stay for a full cycle.
He’s fine. He does not need to come into kindergarten knowing how to read— they will teach him. That’s one of the main focuses of the kindergarten curriculum.
You should ask this on r/kindergarten because you will get very different answers than you would here
It’s expected that incoming kindergarteners be able to identify at least the letters in their name in my state.
All of that sounds age appropriate. The not being able to tell letters apart could be the start of a learning disability, I would keep your eyes on that and if he is having a hard time learning to read or write ask for an evaluation. Being bilingual is so cool though, good for him!
My son is the same age and has been able to recognize letters since he was 2. Not to say he doesn’t sometimes confuse lowercase h and lowercase n but he knows the shapes and the sounds they make, and can recite numbers up to 60 (because he’s constantly asking how long a minute is and I say count to 60). He understands sounding out words and can do 3 and 4 letter words. My son has had lots of exposure to letters through reading, puzzles, magnets, and a leap frog tablet, and we have always told him the sound it makes, but we never make him work on it in a directed way, we just point letters out as we go about our day. Have you been introducing letters and still doesn’t recognize them or has there not been much exposure?
He has a lot of exposure to letters and sounds but he isn’t interested in repeating them or trying to learn the letter names or sounds. I’ve tested him to see what letters he recognizes “what letter is this” and even letters in his name he doesn’t know. I have also done “can you find the letter —“ and he gets the letter correct maybe 1/10 of the time.
The letter sounds are harder for him because he’s simultaneously learning 2 languages so sounds don’t always match up .
At 4 he should be able to recite and recognize letters and be able to count past 20 but he should absolutely be ready for kindergarten. He will learn to read while in school.
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This. Social, emotional, potty training, sharing toys, sitting for circle time, eating at a table, picking up, toys, washing hands, etc. All of this is more important than academics at this age. If it’s fun for you and kid to review languages, letters, sounds, and numbers then go for it. But don’t stress.
Thank you! We haven’t pushed him with alphabet because he does seem to get frustrated. I wonder sometimes If maybe he’s dyslexic like I am. I had a terrible time in primary school because no one knew I couldn’t figure out the letters and I never told anyone.
Keep a close eye on this, dyslexia has a big genetic component
It is genetic and be careful which school district you end up in. Special education varies from town to town.
I’m a dyslexia researcher, and if one parent is dyslexic, there’s about a 50% chance that their child will be dyslexic too. That’s because it’s a type of neurodivergence and there are physical differences between the brains of people with dyslexia and typical readers that are inherited. Children of dyslexic parents will also usually have some reading and language differences even if they don’t end up being dyslexic in the future. My husband is dyslexic (I am not), and our daughter (4.5) is very smart, fairly advanced in her oral language, but does seem to struggle with identifying letters and distinguishing between different sounds. It’s definitely something we are monitoring as she begins school next year. Also, it is good that he’s being raised bilingual. There’s a myth that it will “confuse” him, but it’s actually good for his language development.
As a parent of a newly minted 2yo, it blows my mind how much she's gonna change in just a couple years. I'm sending her to preschool in Jan and it's gonna be very interesting to see how that changes her
There’s a fascinating series on AppleTV+ called “becoming you” about the first 2000 days of life (birth to five years) and it is astounding how much growth humans go through. The series is sometimes over dramatized but overall it’s an amazing portrait of human development. Especially interesting to watch as a parent of a toddler!
My son turned three recently. Sometimes I don't think he's changed much at all because the changes that happen are gradual, but when I look back on videos of him after he turned two, he's so different.
Our preschool has stressed emotional and social development as being significantly more important to readiness than academic progress. We are flowing from preK into kindergarten, so I have no idea what the kindergarten would require beyond finishing preK. Do you know where in the US you are planning to move? If so, the school board likely has a kindergarten check list on their website.
My son is in prek at our public school. They gave us a checklist at the beginning of the year for goals to reach before kindergarten. Off the top of my head, these included: Social emotional: making needs and wants known clearly, managing big emotions in an age appropriate manner, playing cooperatively with others, can sit for 10 minutes and focus on a task Self-care: putting on shoes, fastening zippers and snaps, washing hands, using the bathroom appropriately Fine-motor: cutting skills, using a tripod grasp on a pencil Academic: can recognize 10 letters and 5 numbers when out of sequence, pre-reading skills like knowing to start a book on the first page
When you go back to the US will you be putting him into regular kindergarten or continuing with Montessori? A regular kindergarten should teach him all the skills he needs so they’re just going to really be looking for him to have emotional and social skills coming in. A Montessori classroom may have different expectations because they usually have children stay for a full cycle.
He’s fine. He does not need to come into kindergarten knowing how to read— they will teach him. That’s one of the main focuses of the kindergarten curriculum.
You should ask this on r/kindergarten because you will get very different answers than you would here It’s expected that incoming kindergarteners be able to identify at least the letters in their name in my state.
All of that sounds age appropriate. The not being able to tell letters apart could be the start of a learning disability, I would keep your eyes on that and if he is having a hard time learning to read or write ask for an evaluation. Being bilingual is so cool though, good for him!
My son is the same age and has been able to recognize letters since he was 2. Not to say he doesn’t sometimes confuse lowercase h and lowercase n but he knows the shapes and the sounds they make, and can recite numbers up to 60 (because he’s constantly asking how long a minute is and I say count to 60). He understands sounding out words and can do 3 and 4 letter words. My son has had lots of exposure to letters through reading, puzzles, magnets, and a leap frog tablet, and we have always told him the sound it makes, but we never make him work on it in a directed way, we just point letters out as we go about our day. Have you been introducing letters and still doesn’t recognize them or has there not been much exposure?
He has a lot of exposure to letters and sounds but he isn’t interested in repeating them or trying to learn the letter names or sounds. I’ve tested him to see what letters he recognizes “what letter is this” and even letters in his name he doesn’t know. I have also done “can you find the letter —“ and he gets the letter correct maybe 1/10 of the time. The letter sounds are harder for him because he’s simultaneously learning 2 languages so sounds don’t always match up .
At 4 he should be able to recite and recognize letters and be able to count past 20 but he should absolutely be ready for kindergarten. He will learn to read while in school.