Should I send my daughter to 1st grade or let her repeat Kindergarten?

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I think that you should have her repeat kindergarten.

My cousin (she's 12 now and will be in 7th grade) had a similar problem. She understood the material for the most part, but would often fall asleep in class and wasn't as mature. Her parents had her repeat kindergarten and I think it helped.

If your daughter repeats, they'll probably give her a different teacher. This is a plus because she will learn different things (since all teachers teach differently. In kindergarten, you're pretty much friends with everyone. She can keep her friends from this year, but she'll also be able to make new friends.

You don't want her to get into 1st grade and get behind. It can cause trouble in the long run. Maybe watch her over summer and see if she matures. The new school environment might be what makes her act immature. If she seems like she's matured and you think that she's ready, then send her to 1st grade in the fall.

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I would send her to first grade. Like you said, academically she is ok. Lots of children in elementary school act immature and develop at different ages. Just because she's a little immature does not mean she will not develop within the next year (maybe later) and get up to the "average" mature. If she's doing fine academically, she will do fine in first grade. She won't be the first, or the last child to be a little immature in first grade. Chances are she will grow out of it.

Also, lots of kids want to stay home with their families. Who knows, she might have a change of heart in first grade. Also, think about this. Say you decide to hold her back, when she's a junior in high school, how do you think she would feel if she COULD have been a senior instead? I would have been so upset if I had to spend an extra year in school!

As a instructor and a mom of an April 5 3 hundred and sixty 5 days outdated, this question has arise in our better 1/2 and youngsters, too. i imagine that is major first to think about in case your daughter is emotionally waiting for kindergarten. It sounds out of your description that she has been very valuable in her Montessori software. She maximum probable has a sense for school room routines and expectations at her grade aspect. despite the indisputable fact that the rush now could be for better teachers on the kindergarten aspect, I have under no circumstances seen a kindergarten classification that does no longer include relaxing and play into their curriculum. At this age aspect, instructors anticipate adulthood ranges to be different. My education experience has targeted on the midsection college aspect. i will allow you to comprehend from seeing 1000's of midsection schoolers that age performs a really small section once you communicate of 'leaders'. human being personality and the arrogance that she builds between her friends and residential over a era of time will be an greater aspect in no matter if she is a 'chief'. If after interpreting your responses, you nevertheless have doubts, i'd make an appointment with the kindergarten instructor on your daughter's skill college. percentage your concerns and that i'm confident that no count number number what your decision, your daughter will be in simple terms tremendous.

Talk about all of this with her teacher. Honestly, when children are in kindergarten, they are fairly much friends with the other children in their class (so it wouldn't be huge for her to "leave her friends" I don't think). In my opinion, There are of course pros and cons to each side. You would not want your child to be bored academically repeating kindergarten, but if you are afraid that she is not mature enough for first grade, repeating kindergarten would be something that could help her.

Is your kindergarten a full day program or half day? (Transitioning from half day to full day when she already has difficulty going to school in the morning could cause more difficulties)

Also, if your school has a multi-age room (kindergarten and first grade in the same classroom together) it might be very helpful for her to have the first grade academics, but the kindergarten social skills reinforced

My son has a mid summer birthday. After reading about the benefits of waiting a year to start kindergarten, I was prepared to delay entry. A discussion with his speech therapist (articulation delay) prompted us to reconsider and enroll him as soon as he was eligible. He was extremely shy and spoke to almost no one. For the next three years, I tried to have him retained without success. Each request by me was met with arguments from the administrative staff at the two schools he attended during that time.

He was never retained. He attended the same school from first through sixth grade and was the youngest in the class all but one year. Most of the students were at least a year older and a few were as many as 20 months older.

Although he has hit his stride in academics and now performs in the top half of the class, he is still socially immature in comparison to many of his classmates. That difference is not only not becoming an equal playing field, it becomes more pronounced each year. First it was just that he was shy. Now as they are hitting puberty, his peers are becoming very interested in boy/girl relationships. My son just hasn't hit that point yet.

I have talked to many parents whose children are in high school or have graduated and are in the same shoes as myself and have children whose children have birthdays fall late in the school year, summer or early fall. There isn't a single one, from the mom of the valedictorian to the mom of the daughter who struggled, who wish that they couldn't go back and alter their decision. Each one of them had social issues involving fellow students of the opposite gender, driving, and group dating.

Looking back as the parent of a boy, the only thing I would change in decisions I made about his academics would be retention. It would have given him an extra year to develop socially, catch up academically, and more time to be my little boy. The last excuse may sound selfish, but they grow up so fast and some of the struggles he has had and will continue to have could have been avoided.

She should probably repeat kindergarten. I think it's unwise to start children in kindergarten when they are only four, though I know it's a huge trend to do it. They rarely benefit from it and many end up like your daughter, recommended to repeat it. In the district in Arizona that we were in, it was well known that if you put a child in who was young like that there was a high possibility of doing kindergarten over and as the parent you pretty much acknowledged that by putting them in early.

I'll say sometimes teachers give advice based on whats better for them. For example if your daughter whines about being in school, teachers might not want to deal with it.

Best advice -- do whats in your heart. Dont think about it too much, the answer will come to you right away.

My parents had the same dilemma with me, except for the fact that I was keeping up / excelling with the older kids. If you think that she'll benefit from staying back then you should keep her by all means, but if you think that she'll be able to catch up, and that she'll be willing to work hard to keep up then send her to first grade. It's all up to you, because you know her best.

Kids are pretty hard to handle because we are not the same age as them therefore we do not fully understand them. It's true that all kids don't want to go to school for several reasons. They say it can be tiring or they're just plain lazy. You can try asking her for her own choice. If you feel like she can't make the correct choices you can talk with mothers who has kids around your daughter's age or with kids around your daughter's age. Their advices can be helpful to let you understand your daughter's age.