Advice, support for splitting a school year for kindergartner? Winter in FL.Want school 1/2 here 1/2 there.?

Question

We are looking to split the school year for our kindergartner between our midwest hometown school and the school near our winter Florida home. Any advice, support or reference material would be much appreciated.

Answer 1

I think the best thing for the student is to remain in one school, as long as it is a good placement.  However, I don't know your situation and you may have a compelling reason for the move.  Here's how to make the transition easiest.

Find out what curriculum the new school uses ahead of time for the move.  Talk to the teacher and find out where (approx.) they will be in the book when your child joins.  Ask your current teacher to take a look at the new book and point to things that you should teach your kid at home before he transfers.

Do workbook pages from the new book with him to get him used to the format.

The most important thing, for all parents to do, is to teach their child at home through play, reading and positive interactions.  If you are able to establish a curiosity and love of learning in your child, they will probably handle the transition pretty well.

Answer 2

The best thing to do is consider the curriculm in both schools , will your chlid be on the same page or ahead of the second half school. What effects will this have if he has to go to a school who does things he already has done, yet misses out on things they have already done.

Being in kindergarten it maybe hard cause its change, while the child maybe used to going to the winter home. They weren't in school at that time, but now they are spending half a time making new friends and getting too know the school and the teachers. Then to be  placed in a new school where he wouldn't have the benefits of the first day being like the first day at the first school. The child may get  some type of complex cause of this as they will have to start all over in a new class with no one he knows .

Answer 3

i cant tolerate to this .it is better to study in the same school

Answer 4

it really isn't very good for a child to be taken out of one school and put them back into the same school at the start of the next year.  Every school teaches different ways to do stuff, and it might become very confusing for the child. the stuff they teach in kindergarten now is out of this world. Florida schools might be more advanced then the school he/she is in and it might be very hard on the child to catch up to them. And it might be so hard for her she could fail kindergaten, and I don't think you would want that for your child.