What do you NEED to learn in Kindergarden?
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Be sure she understands a simple ab pattern, and it is helpful if you can extend it. By that I mean red,yellow,red yellow. An extended pattern would incorporate another color. She should be fine if she knows all of the  names of the letters, sounds, colors, and basic shapes. I think the requirements for homeschool probably vary from state to state, but I suggest you call your local Office of Public Instruction. The OSPI in Washington State use to provide materials for parents who homeschooled. I am a certified public school teacher as well as a certified Montessori teacher. Your daughter will be fine given your concern and involvement. Start her putting the sounds together to form simple words (cat, dog etc.) Have her practice her manuscript to develop her fine motor skills (we use D'Nealian in WA) you should be able to obtain practice sheets off of the Internet. Teach her the seasons as they change. I always taught the names of baby animals in the spring, apples and spiders in the fall etc. Good luck!
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I'd love to come back as myself, but.... with the same mental ability I have now. So I could experience being born, appreciate my childhood and parents more.\n\nIt would be cool knowing everything at kindergarden. \nwhen the teacher asks the class to draw a picture about the 'cat on the mat', you could write a 25 page thesis on the exploration of storytelling for development of children in early childhood.\n\nIt would be neato!
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They should start the minute they crawl out of the womb.  These days, kids have to be able to read before they are allowed to enter kindergarten, so early home schooling is a must.\n\nWhere I live, kindergarteners are required to read, add subtract and multiply by 2, 3, 4 and 5.  I know a local teacher and her 1st graders have to be able to use a digital video camers, upoload it into a computer, edit it, and produce a movie which must include a title page, special effects and a credits page.
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Cover the Cooperative Learning issue and first group your students in groups of 3-5. Give each child in the group a job.  For example, The Reporter, The Materials Manager, Maintenance (clean up :) ), Project Manager...you get the idea.  I am sure you have other objectives other than Observing the parts of a plant...What exactly do you want them to learn????????  5 year olds can observe the parts of the plants...so you can go in depth....\nMaybe you have one group predicting the importance of Leaves or comparing different leaves on different plants...deciduous, coniferous...if so have them in a group...with a time span...look for samples of leaves...have the students identify what type of tree or plant, have them make leaf rubbings and describe the leaf - you get the point!  You can do the same by have a group identify the stem and the importance of a stem by putting a white carnation or celery stick in colored water.  Have the predict what will happen through writing and a drawing and the next day observe and identify the conclusion!  There are many ideas out there...those are a few to get you started!\nAnyways after having each group become "experts" in their area of research, have them present their information. You can go beyond Cooperative Learning and touch on Multiple Intelligence and Various Learning Modes!  Have each group chose a way to present the info: They can make a Big Book, Write an Essay, Act out an Infomercial, Draw a picture and present the info on Posterboard, make a mobile...etc!  Have fun with it...You can get all sorts of grades out of it as well!!!
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Check out the National Literacy Programme; as for each year group there are a designated list. For example Year 1 children have approxiamately 40 key words to learn.  In Year 2 this is built upon and added to.\nHope this helps.
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To teach effectively, you have to be an entertainer, a politician, and a content expert. Effective teaching begins with understanding what you teach and desiring to influence the lives of children. Unfortunately, that only goes so far. You have to fit into the school, understand your role, avoid legal entanglements, and navigate a treacherous path as a rookie teacher. It's impossible to sum up in a soundbyte, so I wrote a book about it called Rookie Teaching for Dummies. No commerical, just a link if you want to learn more.
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The best depends on your child...no one can tell you what's best for your family!!! Read All Kinds of Minds, figure out what kind of learners they are. You would choose totally different curriculum for a child who is a visual learner than for a child who is a kinesthetic learner. \n\nRemember that kids in first grade tend to be more hands-on learners anyway, and keep in  mind that just because a child is in a certain grade, that doesn't mean that it's the age of curriculum you should buy. If your 8th grader is behind, you need to start where their knowledge ends, or you create a lot of frustration.\n\nFirst thought is to check local bookstores, Barnes and Noble and Borders both have an extensive homeschooling section. also check out Mardel's Christian bookstore. While much of their curriculum is Christian based, they also have much that is not. You can look through it and see if you like it, and it's easy to return.\n\nAsk your local homeschooling group if they have a curriculum fair coming up...that's an opportunity to really peruse the different ones and get your hands on (there's nothing worse than buying a curriculum and opening and seeing that it's not what you expected...unless it's buying the curriculum and it doesn't work for your child anyway!)\n\nOur town also has a curriculum exchange, so you can go to a bookstore setting, and you get credit for what you bring in, and as well the books/items are much cheaper than new.\n\nAlso see if you have a yahoo hs'ing group in your area, on ours lots of people pass stuff on for free, or will let you borrow it to see if it works.\n\nOne thing more, if your 8th grader has been miserable in school, you might look into deschooling so that he/she can catch their breath, and recapture their love of learning. Google it and you'll find lots.\n\nM
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The most important thing for a child in kindergarten is social skills. Once they have the concept of sharing, being kind, listening and not talking when someone else is, then you can work on the academics like letters, numbers and reading. Most kids starting kindergarten can't read, but should know how to read and print their own name. Knowing the alphabet and recognizing the letters and the sounds they make will give your child a head start.\n\nDon't stress out about this too much. ALL kids in kindergarten and grade 1 are at different levels. They will level out eventually!
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Currently the grade of Kindergarden is not "required"  However it is valuable.  So 6 years at the elementary (K-5th)  Then we have "middle school " which is 3 years (6-8th) them high school is 4 years (9-12th)  equaling a total of 13 years.  By the way - Welcome to America!  At 12 yrs old you would be in the 7th grade.
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One and two year olds learn in the context of safe, secure and responsive relationships. By your careful noticing of what they say and do, and your caring, sensitive responses, you teach them that they are valued, that the world is safe and that their needs are going to be met. That way they learn to recognize their own feelings and also learn to recognize and care about others'.  This foundation of social and emotional skills provides the basis for their capacity to develop their abilities for language and literacy.  They will enjoy hearing songs and stories from you and reading books together. This will help them learn a lot of important literacy and language skills, as will your natural every day conversations with them.  Seeing you read other things like instructions, articles, etc will help show them how important reading is.  Counting with them in the course of playing, letting them experiment objects (for example, pouring blocks from one container to another) will help them with early numeracy skills.  One of the most important things you can do is to follow their lead in play. When they want to build with blocks, watch, comment on what they are doing and then add something to make it just a little more challenging and interesting, but with out taking over the play.\n\nYour everyday nurturing care will teach them a lot. Your conscious use of every day opportunities to directly experience language and mathematical concepts (counting steps as you walk up; counting how many children are in the dramatic play area; letting children help set the table for lunch and count how many place settings for how many children, etc) will help them with their school readiness skills.
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Apply as a pre-school teacher :-)
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As a former teacher trainer in Asia,\n\nGotta set up a routine for you lesson. Let's say you have young ones, start with a song/chant, and then into your "grammar/language" lesson (the crappy books they give you to follow). Seatwork (appropriate for the level). Then end it off with a story. You can ask simple questions for the story, "Find something red. What page was the boy eating the ice cream?" Always good to add a few language games into your lesson. One simple game is for two students with swatters to hit the correct vocab card. Plain, but better than repeating the words. You can make up a whole bunch of language games. Try bingo, but with pics of vocab. Play Simon Says.\n\nI find when I was teachign ESL, my greatest problem and my teachers' greatest problem was the lack of resources. Here is a site: http://www.readinga-z.com/\n\nBuy a $50 yearly member ship and download the books. Get your school to pay for you. This will provide you with 100s of reading activities for ALL levels!
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Anything that you have a true interest in and the desire to delve into deeper.\n\nDoesn't matter if you are great at it, that's why you are in school.\n\nFrankly, everyone needs to learn 1 thing a day no matter how small & what the person's age is.
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curriculum for the children or for getting a job as a childcare worker? \n\numm for the children, contact a local daycare center...let them know you are doing a project, with respect to how important their job is...ya know, stroke the ego...they will be likely to be able to assist you best.\n\nif you are asking about curriculum to get into childcare, might want to check with a counselor at your local university.
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Go to the nearest primary school and talk to the parents of some Kindergartners they may be able to tell you of some good preschools.  \n\nCall all of the preschools in your area and go to visit them and you will get a "vibe" while you are there as to what kind of a place it is. Good Luck : )
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Well the criteria for pre-school education is to go to school that has an chile development program. The highest form of education you need to be a preschool teacher is to get your CDA (Child Development Associate) certification. This certification doesn't take very long to achieve and most of thetime the classes are in the evening depending on the institution you choose to go to. But once you have you CDA, there are only a few more classes until you can obtain you Associates Degree in child development.
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Most of the development in a natural process. However making sure that the child gets the required nutrition ( vitamins, minerals etc)and an environment that stimulates his brain might help to complement the learning process