Reading and writing?
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My child was born in November 2020. She is adding double digits in her head. Subtracting single digits in her head and can read at a 2nd grade level. BUT I am a sped teacher my mother is a sped teacher and my grand fathers were engineers and legit rocket scientist. So we come from a long line of academics are fun and we do it as fun to pass the time so I know as a teacher she’s super advanced. That isn’t normal. Those packets aren’t developmentally appropriate. Now on the other hand. That’s amazing your child is able to do them and seems to enjoy it. If it’s not stressing your baby then I say keep it coming for your child that’s what they need for their little brain to continue to be stimulated.
oct 2020 baby , she can write her name all by herself & write any word i tell her how to spell. currently working on writing numbers. she can add single digits. she can't not read anything but her name lol but she goes to prek this upcoming school year so hopefully she'll learn a bit more skills there. also to add she loves the packets she would get from daycare as homework she even asks me to give her homework now that i'm a sahm
@Brooke my three yr old is the one with the crazy attitude 🤣 My son just started speech therapy!
My kiddo is autistic so things haven't really followed a "normal" curve. He didn't speak a word until age 2, and then started speaking in full sentences. Turns out he is a gestalt language processor, so his vocabulary has become huge. He taught himself to read at age 3, and is easily reading the sight words for third and fourth grade. He refuses to even attempt to write anything, but can type properly spelled sentences. He can do math in his head, but not on paper. He also refuses to portytrain (he can do it, he refuses to do so)
@Chantelle Samesies! But first grade reading level he really loves the packets 🤣 i personally think it’s super weird lol his teacher gives us extra packets too during the breaks for him to work on for leisure and he tries to stay home from gymnastics to do homework instead 🤣🤣 We don’t come from a long line of academics though we’re mostly athletes 🤣
@Asha speech therapy was the best thing I could have ever done for her! She didn’t go through the “terrible twos” so I feel like I’m getting punished for it with how bad her attitude is 🤦♀️. She even will throw her hands up and said “I’m so tired of you” if I ask her to do something I’ve been trying to nip it in the bud but being a solo parent there’s times I just walk away and let her run her course of attitude. I’m just thankful she never went through the hitting/bitting stage (she bit her dad once and never did it again cause he bit her back)
@Asha I love that he loves it. Sounds like you are doing a great job supporting him in what makes him happy whether that’s academics or sports or both! I did both and my parents cheered me on when I won the science fair or hit a home run. You are cheering him on and paying attention to his likes. I love it! Great job!
@Kayla my son is autistic too! And also taught himself to read that’s why I’m also like wtf is normal 🤣 Oh he can type?! I’m not sure if mine can type… they use computers at school but idk to what capacity and I never asked
@Asha yeah, I gave both my boys (both autistic) fire tablets at around 18 months. The 4.5 year old types, does math, and reads books. My 3 year old is non verbal, but seems to have an idetic memory for the matching games, and exactly where in his video the part if the song he wants to hear is
@alissa the asking for homework is so funny to me But I want it to be fun so I let it be Before my son started school he couldn’t write anything and literally a few weeks later he was writing And I was like damn… was I just neglecting this skill? He could read but he wouldn’t write but since he could read idk I figured writing would eventually come
@Asha me too i don't want her to hate it so i got her a prek workbook so it's fun for her and she has access to it whenever she wants to do her "homework" 😂
@alissa my son also really likes activity books which I think he associates with homework and space is his thing so I’ve gotten a couple that he can just grab and sit and do So she might also be really into themed activity books as well!
My 2020 kiddo can write her name and asks how to spell words and writes them out. It’s not very pretty but she tries. She’s also never been to school or daycare or anything like that yet and starts in August
@Natalia I think that’s good for not going to school My son couldn’t write at all until he did go to school
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My oldest kid is an August 2020 baby and man oh man does he loveeeee to do educational activities! He makes a game out of seeing how many words he can spell/read or what equations he can already count. Subtracting is the hardest one. He can already fully spell and write his name, and honestly can spell most words. When we make trips to the library or go on book runs, atp he goes and reads the huge heavy hitters and can explain back what is happening. I’m not sure if my kiddo being on the spectrum adds or subtracts to that, but I will add that he is.
My son is turning 5 in July. He hasn’t stepped into a school at all. He can write his first and last name, count to 100, add small numbers, and maybe sometimes subtract. He can sound out letters, knows his alphabet, recognizes letters, but hasn’t gotten to reading yet.
That sounds like the work that my kindergarten brings home (born fall 2018). My 4yo brings worksheets from preK daycare that are more along the lines of counting and matching sets of items to the correct number and tracing letters. Honestly it's hard to tell what he knows sometimes because he doesn't want to cooperate, but then he gets everything right quickly. He's about to be evaluated for early kindergarten, so that will be interesting.
@Audrey he’s in transitional kindergarten It’s like a two year kindergarten program and he’ll officially be in kindergarten this fall He’s at school literally all day public elementary school it’s kinda crazy lol But it’s like hmm if this is what TK is what in the world is kindergarten?
My daughter needed speech therapy for about a year but after that she sky rocketed with everything. She can write count to 100 and can remember EVERYTHING! She remembers stuff from when she was in speech therapy which was at the age of two. Tonight we went to church for the 1st time in about 4 months due to moving away from home (we haven’t found a new church in Oklahoma yet) she remembered everyone there and all the prayers/songs like she was just there last week. She isn’t reading yet but gets frustrated at the fact she can’t read but she does know what sounds all of the letters in the alphabet makes. The only issue I’m having with her age is the attitude/sassiness.