Today at drop off Kat's teacher pulled me aside and asked if there was anything we wanted her to be doing with Kat for the rest of the school year. Such an odd question that I can't get to the bottom of. Is she asking for permission to ride her hard and make her learn a lot? Does she just want to know if we have expectations that we haven't spoken of yet? I am not sure.
What I do know is that we want Kat to have a lovely kindergarten experience. We want her to paint and play and sing and dance. We want her to enjoy picture books and trips to the library and sunny days on the playground and drippy ice cream cones. We want her to have a wonderful, wonderful childhood. Of course we want her to learn meaningful information at school. We want her to feel like school is fun and that learning is worth working for. But we don't want her burnt out on school and we don't feel like she needs to learn extra just to "get ahead." She is already ahead.
I think I need to speak with the teacher again...
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