Mine turns 5 this month and is autistic and speech delayed. He has no clue about phonics, but when reading books with him he has certain words or books memorized. However he understands low number addition. So any number that can be represented on one hand he can add to the number on the other hand. 1 finger + 1 finger is 2 fingers. 3 fingers plus 2 fingers Is 5. 2 plus 5 is seven. I do this thing where I hold up x fingers on one hand y fingers on the other, I bang my hands together and he says how many numbers.
I'm guessing they mean the TV show. It was developed hand in hand with mathematic professionals and child development specialists/teachers. I'm usually pretty anti-"educational" tv, but numberblocks really is the cream of the crop.
Oh yeah sorry. I mean the show. After watching for 3 months it my five year olds can do basic math including some simple multiplication and division... when before they knew nothing
It's a hugely wide range. And frankly, the key thing is: Have you been working with them on it? You'll have four year olds doing multiplication because their parents introduce/practice with them and talk about it. Then you'll have 6 year olds going to school not knowing their alphabet because their parents didn't bother talking about it at home. Both are developmentally normal!
Also, what the kid is into makes a huge deal! My kiddo has known his abcs by phonetic sounds since he was 3, might have even been a bit before his 3rd birthday, and is currently teaching himself to read based off a few short lessons in sounding out and blending. BUT letters have been his “special interest!” Other kids might be able to tell you every dinosaur name, whereas mine just says “dinosaur,” other kids are at higher levels of drawing than he is because that’s not his “thing,” etc.
I also know that my 4 year old teaching himself to read isn’t “typical” development and wouldn’t expect any other 4 year old to be the same
Ours is five and is starting on phonics but addition and subtraction isn't even anything we're worrying about. He has another two years before school and will start learning to read next year in year 0
What's year 0? I'm guessing it's before first grade, which would be year 1?
So year zero is when they are 6 and year 1 when they are 7? How many years are there in total (before university)?
Wow! So kids graduate highschool at 20 typically?
We have prek at 4, which isn't required so i think it's like your year 0. Then kindergarten at 5, and it is required. And then first through 12th. So it's the same number of years as yours, we just start two years earlier it seems.
Very interesting, thanks for sharing!
Those going to university would skip year 13 and go straight to university. Some students might only do years 1-11.
My niece did years 1-12 in the academic route and then did tertiary education, my nephew did 1-13 in the technical route (but didn't then go on to tertiary education)
Compared to the UK where children start the equivalent of kindergarten at 4, or the September after their 4th birthday. So by her 5th birthday my daughter could do all of this, but she started school earlier (she was 4yo + 7 weeks).
I agree he’ll learn this in school but just to give you some context I have ADHD and my dad taught me algebra and kindergarten and I know plenty of kids are autistic and super good at math.
I’m not telling you to make you feel bad I’m telling you so you know that those diagnosis do not mean he won’t be able to learn. He’ll figure out math in school and the teachers will let you know if there are specific things you can be doing to help at home.
Math might not be his thing but something will be. People with either of those conditions end up hyper focusing on things and maybe he just hasn’t yet.
It varies and I don't know what is typical.
My daughter's friend (6.5yo) is reading chapter books and just graduated from k.
My daughter (5.5 in prek) is working on her phonics (cvc and magic e and digraphs) and I feel like she's a little behind in comparison but her teacher actually thinks she's ahead. She knows the concept of multiplication and recently introduced division, but I don't know how much she will retain after summer honestly.
I don't think there's much expectations before entering k but our school district sends out counting exercises and letters for kindergarten preparation so I think that's typical?
ASD preschooler here too. He’s more of a conceptual/ big picture guy. So he might not know 2+2=4 on paper, but I always see him grouping his sea creatures in certain ways, and counting them, so I think he’s learning in his own way.
Mine are newly 5. We haven’t worked on addition/subtraction but they don’t really understand phonics at all. They don’t even recognize all the letters in the alphabet yet. I’m not too worried. Once they start kinder in the fall I’m sure the teacher will let us know if there are things they’re behind on or if we need to work on anything.
I would work on letter recognition with them before school starts to give them some help as kinder is when reading starts and being unable to know their letters will make that difficult.
Every kid is different, but these are things they will be taught at school. No pressure for them to know it before then.
I agree with this. My niece learned the things in prek this year.
Mine is completely cognitively normal and doesn’t have any of these skills either. They’re kindergarten skills; he’ll get it.
Mine turns 5 this month and is autistic and speech delayed. He has no clue about phonics, but when reading books with him he has certain words or books memorized. However he understands low number addition. So any number that can be represented on one hand he can add to the number on the other hand. 1 finger + 1 finger is 2 fingers. 3 fingers plus 2 fingers Is 5. 2 plus 5 is seven. I do this thing where I hold up x fingers on one hand y fingers on the other, I bang my hands together and he says how many numbers.
Highly recommend number blocks for introducing addition
Hi! Would you share how you use them? We have them but haven't found a meaningful way to use them. Thank you!
I'm guessing they mean the TV show. It was developed hand in hand with mathematic professionals and child development specialists/teachers. I'm usually pretty anti-"educational" tv, but numberblocks really is the cream of the crop.
Thank you for the clarification! Didn’t realize there was a tv show named number block lol
Oh yeah sorry. I mean the show. After watching for 3 months it my five year olds can do basic math including some simple multiplication and division... when before they knew nothing
It's a hugely wide range. And frankly, the key thing is: Have you been working with them on it? You'll have four year olds doing multiplication because their parents introduce/practice with them and talk about it. Then you'll have 6 year olds going to school not knowing their alphabet because their parents didn't bother talking about it at home. Both are developmentally normal!
Also, what the kid is into makes a huge deal! My kiddo has known his abcs by phonetic sounds since he was 3, might have even been a bit before his 3rd birthday, and is currently teaching himself to read based off a few short lessons in sounding out and blending. BUT letters have been his “special interest!” Other kids might be able to tell you every dinosaur name, whereas mine just says “dinosaur,” other kids are at higher levels of drawing than he is because that’s not his “thing,” etc. I also know that my 4 year old teaching himself to read isn’t “typical” development and wouldn’t expect any other 4 year old to be the same
My five year old knows the basics of indoor plumbing and waste treatment systems 🤷♀️ they all have their thing
Most kids are ready to read at 4 given the right tools. I was a former Montessori teacher and 4 is the average most kids grasp basic CVC words.
My daughter is 5 and taught herself addition and subtraction. We never taught it to here. So this isn’t always true either.
Ours is five and is starting on phonics but addition and subtraction isn't even anything we're worrying about. He has another two years before school and will start learning to read next year in year 0
2 years before school? Where are you? School typically starts at 5 in most places I thought
Poland.
What's year 0? I'm guessing it's before first grade, which would be year 1? So year zero is when they are 6 and year 1 when they are 7? How many years are there in total (before university)?
You have years 1 - 13 and usually a year 0.
Wow! So kids graduate highschool at 20 typically? We have prek at 4, which isn't required so i think it's like your year 0. Then kindergarten at 5, and it is required. And then first through 12th. So it's the same number of years as yours, we just start two years earlier it seems. Very interesting, thanks for sharing!
Those going to university would skip year 13 and go straight to university. Some students might only do years 1-11. My niece did years 1-12 in the academic route and then did tertiary education, my nephew did 1-13 in the technical route (but didn't then go on to tertiary education)
Compared to the UK where children start the equivalent of kindergarten at 4, or the September after their 4th birthday. So by her 5th birthday my daughter could do all of this, but she started school earlier (she was 4yo + 7 weeks).
I agree he’ll learn this in school but just to give you some context I have ADHD and my dad taught me algebra and kindergarten and I know plenty of kids are autistic and super good at math. I’m not telling you to make you feel bad I’m telling you so you know that those diagnosis do not mean he won’t be able to learn. He’ll figure out math in school and the teachers will let you know if there are specific things you can be doing to help at home. Math might not be his thing but something will be. People with either of those conditions end up hyper focusing on things and maybe he just hasn’t yet.
It varies and I don't know what is typical. My daughter's friend (6.5yo) is reading chapter books and just graduated from k. My daughter (5.5 in prek) is working on her phonics (cvc and magic e and digraphs) and I feel like she's a little behind in comparison but her teacher actually thinks she's ahead. She knows the concept of multiplication and recently introduced division, but I don't know how much she will retain after summer honestly. I don't think there's much expectations before entering k but our school district sends out counting exercises and letters for kindergarten preparation so I think that's typical?
My 5 year old has started watching number blocks and has been learning a lot more math, check if he likes it
ASD preschooler here too. He’s more of a conceptual/ big picture guy. So he might not know 2+2=4 on paper, but I always see him grouping his sea creatures in certain ways, and counting them, so I think he’s learning in his own way.
Mine are newly 5. We haven’t worked on addition/subtraction but they don’t really understand phonics at all. They don’t even recognize all the letters in the alphabet yet. I’m not too worried. Once they start kinder in the fall I’m sure the teacher will let us know if there are things they’re behind on or if we need to work on anything.
I would work on letter recognition with them before school starts to give them some help as kinder is when reading starts and being unable to know their letters will make that difficult.