[van7315]

Advice from a kindergarten teacher- Honestly, if your kid knows their alphabet and sounds and is able to read at a level 3 then that is the very basic level for him to be at in order to pass onto first grade. NOW, remember the over the summer kids for get things. Yes there is summer school but generally only for a month and then what happens the next month? They still forget everything. At home give him your own test. Take the letters out of order and see if he can name them and tell you the sound for each. If he can't do that, then don't move him to first. First grade is becoming second second and ppl don't seem to understand this. There is a huge jump that they have to make. Does he know his sight words? Can he write sentences with spaces between the words? Does he know the difference between a letter and a word? Can he write clearly and express himself? If you have been working with him at home, then you will know what level he's at and how he has progressed. If he can write, read, and do math, then move him on. If he can't then maybe leaving him an extra year in kinder won't be so bad. If you move him on and he's not ready, the teachers can hold him back in first grade or send him back to kinder. Hope this helps.Also, the reason she told you way back in October about him progressing slowly is probably because he was one of those on the border cases. It's good that she told you early because then you knew what to work with him and hopefully you did. Alot of my border cases from early this school year won't be held back but I told their parents because I didn't want to have that conference where I throw the bomb at them that their kid isn't doing so well, when I met with them before and told him he was doing perfectly.