Thursday, November 18, 2010

It's Thursday somewhere

Yesterday Mark found Esme getting into all sort of forbidden things whenever she was quiet... network cards, cords, a knife in a sheath that she KNOWS she isn't supposed to touch.. but she didn't hurt herself and he got it put away from her again. AND - there were tiny clear footprints up about six feet in the air on the back of a glass tabletop where two monitors sit high up on his desk. She had climbed the back of the desk to get up standing behind the monitors, somehow - probably going after the green robot toy which is stored up there ... and it has not worked for a month or so. She is very sad because she wants to play with it and it does not work. How in the world did she get up there?

I am trying not to worry about schooling again, after a thread on Esme's forum about 'what the average K student knows upon entry.'Yes, she's barely three - and I'm trying to keep it in the back of my mind because of that. But, she will be six by the time they let her into K 'by the rules.' She will change, a lot, by then. She already has changed so much in this last year.

To know why I'm worried about that pdf.. start at the 'what most children know'... and then take a look at Esme's last update. And think she has three more years until she is eligible for kindergarten in our state. We may truly need to homeschool kindergarten and try to skip her a grade... or find something else more suited for her when the time arrives.

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