Question from a kindergarten parent

Hello fabulous teachers!

My son is currently 5 years old and he has started kindergarten last month. He is a very self-motivated learner and really enjoys a challenge. He is also pretty quick at understanding something you teach him. I have basically done "preschool" with him at home and he at this point understands phonics and making words. He is almost done reading the first batch of "Bob's Books" for those familiar with that. He understands rhyming and picking out words that match the beginning and ending sound of a word you give him. If you tell him to spell "deer", he'll spell it "d-e-r" which I think is appropriate for this age?

In math, he can already add and subtract numbers over 10. For example 17 minus/plus 8. Can count by 5's, 2's, 10's.

My question is... for those kindergarten teachers out there...will he be able to advance these skills during kindergarten or will that not happen until first grade? All the work that he has brought home has been really simple for him thus far. I ask him if there is anything the teacher teaches that he doesn't understand or finds difficult and he says "no". He told me the other day in regards to what they are learning "I know everything".

A part of me is wondering if I should put him in a Montessori school for this K year but I don't know. I really also want him to get the social interaction that he hasn't had much of due to Covid (he does have younger siblings, though), but I also want him to be challenged. In Montessori, I know they really focus on math concept and begin working with your child at the level they currently are, even in reading.

I asked his teacher about how they differentiate learning for students who have advanced skills and was told that they will do small group learning with students at the same level... but this has yet to happen.

Any thoughts/advice would be greatly appreciated!

Submitted September 16, 2021 at 04:03PM by Mama-Bear419 https://ift.tt/3zfKrJi