I think LO 1 will know 4 or 5 kids from her TK class when she starts kindergarten at a different elementary school this fall!
She didn't know anyone when she started TK and it took her 2-3 weeks to remember everyone's name and form some friendships.
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About ten kids from his preschool will be in kindergarten with him. But who knows if they will be in the same class… he's going to pre-K at the same school though so he will have known his whole pre-K class by the time he moves up to kindergarten. About five of the kids from his preschool class will be with him in pre-K.
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I know at least two little boys in my daughter's preschool class are zoned for the same elementary school. But I can't say for sure that they will be in the same class. It will be a big change for my daughter. She's been with the same kids (minus small changes for kids moving, etc) since she was a newborn. She's typically very social, but I'll be interested to see how she does with a whole new group of people.
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Lo1 will either go to a private preschool or the more likely option right now is public TK this coming school year, so it could go either way. We're about to move this summer so she will be leaving the preschool she has spent the past two years at.
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We don't have public prek; there was a girl in her young toddler class that lives 2 houses down so I know they'll be going to the same kindergarten (we have multiple elementary schools with kindergarten attached)
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This is something we're trying to figure out right now. He doesn't start till next year (Aug 2018). The kids are in a daycare right now that we've (generally) loved and they are very very happy and D has lots of friends. Our daycare offers private K, but it's expensive (costs as much as having a newborn in daycare) and we're really looking forward to our costs dropping. Our public system is wonderful, but the problem is that our daycare doesn't bus to the elementary school that we're districted to based on where we live. We knew this when we started sending them there, but we figured we'd just intradistrict transfer them. But our school district announced this year that they're no longer allowing intradistrict transfers for childcare reasons (says exactly that right on the front page of the SD website). I've spoken to the director of the daycare and they would actually happily provide transportation to our elementary school if there were more than one family that needed it. They can't justify the cost of it for just one child, which we completely understand. So I have to start asking around somehow to see if any other parents are in our predicament. Or we have to change daycares. D has a rough time with transitions and change, so if we had to change daycares, we'd want to do it relatively soon so that he'd have time to adjust and make some friends. But it really really hurts my heart to think about taking him from his friends and teachers that he loves.
We kind of obsess over the decision, actually.
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At least half the kids in her preschool are in our school district, which is great. I'd say it's at least 10-15 kids she'll know. She also has some friends in our neighborhood.
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There should be at least 4 others. 3 that live on our street and the other, not too far away. Two are her twin best friends
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Most likely no. He is going to a private preschool/daycare now and most parents are sending their kids to the private elementary school that is affiliated with them. We seem to be one of the only ones sending our child to a public school.
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Mine knew a couple of neighbors, but he also has cousins in other grades also.
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A couple but not so likely to be in the same class. Our school is taking some overflow from another and will have at least 5 sections of kinder!
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Two others from our daycare and five from our neighborhood will start K at the same time, but split between four classes so not sure if she'll know anyone still.
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Yes, siblings of DD1's classmates from 1st grade that she already knows from play dates.
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A's best best best friend is moving to our school district! Her parents decided to build a house right down the road from us. She doesn't go to daycare and there aren't a lot of 3 year olds in our neighborhood so I am so excited that they chose that development to build in hahaha. I hope they get the same kindergarten class.
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My daughter is only 2.5 but we already know several people who will be in her grade/school, it's obviously way too soon to know if they will be in the same class. The are two kids on our block and two more within two blocks that we already know plus a whole bunch who will be the grade ahead of her (her birthday is right after the cutoff so most of her friends are a grade up.) It's one of the things I love about our community, the vast majority of kids go to the neighborhood school and since it's a walkable community we get to know people.
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yes - both kids had 4-5 kids from their DCP going to the same elementary school
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LO only knows 1 friend who also attended preschool with him. His school is pretty big (190 kids in his grade), and he adjusted well to making new friends at the beginning of the year.
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My son began at a brand new school and didn't know a soul, but you wouldn't know it now based on his mornings at the playground at drop off!
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@looch: same here! My son went to a small daycare and now he's in a school that is kindergarten through high school and he didn't know anyone at all when he started! He did very well with the change.
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Yeah He goes to a Montessori school in town and will know a handful of kids.
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No my son didn't know anyone but it was not a problem.
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She started last September and knew 3 kids there - all from daycare. One is in her class, one is in the class across the hall, and the other is in yet another class.
We kind of obsess over the decision, actually.
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