by Kim | Dec 22, 2022 | Decision Making for Parents, Preschool at home
To become an international baccalaureate program is no small feat, and district level recognition as NYC’s district 13 is attempting is even more complicated to pull off. The reason is that the International Baccalaureate Organization has a years-long...
by Kim | Dec 14, 2022 | Accelerated Learning, Preschool at home
I promised an update on the Kindergarten admissions and the NYC gifted and talented program, so here I am after some reconnaissance and further investigation. Unlike the long-form posts you’ve come to expect in this space, this one will be in bullet point format and...
by Kim | Dec 5, 2022 | Accelerated Learning, Preschool at home
How can I tell if my child should attend a gifted and talented program? What does gifted mean? How does my child’s school decide who is gifted and talented? All good questions, parents! And ones with no easy answers because giftedness means so many different...
by Kim | Dec 3, 2022 | Accelerated Learning, Preschool at home
January 2024 update: the brand new 2024-2025 NYC gifted and talented program post is available for your viewing pleasure! Summer 2023 update: this post gives pointers on what to do if you’ve received a G&T waitlist offer. If you didn’t get a seat in...
by Kim | Oct 19, 2022 | Accelerated Learning, Preschool at home
Once awakened, your preschoolers multiple intelligences set the foundation for learning trajectories. Howard Gardner first presented his theory in 1983 and identified eight separate intelligences that everyone has: word smarts, music smarts, number smarts, picture...
by Kim | Aug 19, 2022 | Accelerated Learning, Preschool at home
For the 2022-2023 academic year, our at home preschool curriculum will incorporate two more programs. For the 21-22 school year, we continued our work with Logic of English (LoE) and Math with Confidence (MwC). In our son’s daycare, the teachers used Handwriting...
