Reflecting on the connection between early childhood and primary school

? Since kindergarten, I have been thinking about giving my children a good transition from kindergarten to primary school. On the one hand, I somewhat agree with what experts say that kindergarten cannot be transformed into primary schools. On the other hand, I am also worried that my children will not be able to keep up after entering primary school. With those The mother of the chicken baby in kindergarten was similarly worried, so she was in conflict. In the end, I chose a compromise. I will briefly talk about it below.

? I chose a conservative approach, neither extreme left nor extreme right. In terms of Chinese, I took the usual path and learned Pinyin in advance. In terms of mathematics, I didn’t give my child any tutoring. It was just addition within 10 that he learned in kindergarten, and some of them required finger-twisting. In terms of English, I still believe that the language should be developed earlier, so I was in the second semester of a large class. When I was anxious, I directly bought an online one-to-one foreign teacher. It turned out that my child knew too little and could not use this enlightenment directly. So later I started using the app to read English picture books with foreign teachers, and the child read along, giving her enlightenment and enabling her to basically recognize 26 letters and their pronunciations, and she could read out common words and sentences. In this way, we entered primary school in September this year.

? Only when you enter primary school can you truly test whether the connection between kindergarten and primary school is done well. The Chinese language course in our primary school also has a transition from early childhood to primary school. The first two and a half months were basically learning Pinyin. Because we had learned it before, there was no problem with this part and the pronunciation was relatively standard. At the same time, I also found that my child seemed to have a good memory. Every time he finished Chinese class, he could recite the text by heart. There is no problem in English class. Every time I read the text, although I can't get an A, it is basically an A. I'm a little confused. Even though I have given her one-on-one lessons with foreigners and also listened to foreigners reading picture books, why can't my accent meet the teacher's requirements? Maybe it's because foreigners like to read in succession when reading English, and the English teacher requires clear pronunciation. They must be read one by one, not consecutively. Originally there were oral English classes with foreign teachers in the school, but due to the severe epidemic in the United States, the oral English classes have not been taken since the start of the school year.

Now let’s talk about mathematics. Mathematics is the only subject that I didn’t grasp in kindergarten. I had already noticed that my child’s arithmetic concepts were not very good, so I didn’t pay much attention to it. I thought maybe she hadn’t figured it out yet. , there is no need to develop her in advance. If what I teach is different from the teacher, it will confuse her even more. In elementary schools, teachers also started teaching simple counting, but the speed was quite fast. Now in mid-to-late November, they have taught addition and subtraction within 20. This progress is really a small case for children in kindergarten who have already mastered addition and subtraction within 100. But for our children who have no basic knowledge and have little interest in mathematics, it is already time to come. Every time we take a small mathematics paper, there will be a lot of mistakes in it. In fact, I don’t think it’s a big problem if you make a few mistakes. The key is that if your classmates know it well, if you still make a lot of mistakes, you will become a different kind of person. The math teacher would name and criticize students who did not do well in class. I was wondering why, at my child's age, teachers still like to criticize mercilessly in public? My child has a thin skin, and as a result, he is afraid of math class. This is the most terrible consequence that children face if they are not connected at an early age. So I became anxious, and I fully understood that this was my responsibility, that this was a mistake I made when I was young, and that I delayed my baby. So every time you come back from school, you will be asked about the math test? I will ask my child to correct wrong questions in advance to avoid the teacher finding out that she still doesn’t understand them the next day. The baby's father became even more anxious and said he would quickly find an agency to replenish her condition. I feel inappropriate going out for snacks before eating the main meal. Nowadays, teachers are also busy, so in most cases where the transition from kindergarten to primary school has been completed, few have the patience to take care of those children with zero basic knowledge and report the answers directly in class. How to calculate it, the teacher also omitted it. I took the initiative to communicate with the math teacher, told my baby's basic situation, and wanted the teacher to "treat" my baby well. The teacher directly suggested to do more questions, but I still had to make up for the questions that others had done before and that we had not done. I just discovered now that fortunately I have connected Chinese and English. If my child is not good at 3 subjects, she will not get stars every time she comes back (the school's motivation method), but will be named and criticized. She is really tired of learning. Fortunately, I am not good at math at the moment, but fortunately I still have Chinese and English where I can get stars.

If parents are confident that they can handle poor grades in first grade, have strong ability to withstand pressure, are not afraid of teachers, and are willing to help their children catch up step by step, I think it is okay not to make a connection, that is, when the children are in This grade level will be particularly tiring and frustrating. If you want your child to make a smooth transition, you can strengthen your child's weaknesses in the kindergarten class. After all, there is a lot of time in the early childhood stage. Now that I'm in elementary school, I basically have Chinese, math, and English homework every day, and I don't have much free time. As long as it is something that the child is interested in and it is not a rote memorization model, there is really no harm in learning something in advance. Some children like words and can learn more than 1,000 words in advance, so they can read in advance. Because I didn’t teach my child to recognize many words in the early stage, and she is not particularly sensitive to words, so she has a relatively small vocabulary. She can’t read books directly, and she can’t even understand math problems. Because I spent less time before, I have to spend more time now. Take time and try to slowly catch up with the big group. A child's life is a marathon, so I am willing to wait a little longer, but I must also let the child adapt to the rules of this race.