#pre-kindergarten

[todays-xkcd]

Calligraphy exam: Write down the number 37, spelled out, nicely.

Exam Numbers [Explained]

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[6 different math test questions.] [The first panel:] Kindergarten math final exam Q. Write down the biggest number you can think of A. [empty box]

[The second panel:] Pre-algebra final exam Q. Write down the value of x if x=3x-8 A. [empty box]

[The third panel:] Calculus final exam Q. Write down the value of [integral sign, from 0 to pi] x sin^2 x dx A. [empty box]

[The fourth panel:] PhD cosmology final exam Q. Write down the Hubble constant to within 1% A. [empty box]

[The fifth panel:] Game theory final exam Q. Write down 10 more than the average of the class's answers A. [empty box]

[The sixth panel:] Postgraduate math final exam Q. Write down the biggest number you can think of A. [empty box]

[retroness-is-fabulous]

[o-vera-nalyzing]

one miya twins hc i just can’t believe isn’t true is mama miya telling the twins before the first day of kindergarten that it’s not ok to hit people most of the time but if someone else starts the fight you can finish it and if someone is bullying your brother you have permission to hit them. that very same day they come home and their mom almost immediately finds out that osamu hit a kid for saying atsumu was stupid, then the kid swung on osamu so atsumu shoved him to the ground within seconds

[deadmomjokes]

Yes I know that growing older and gaining independence is inevitable and a good thing and we lucked into one of the best school zones in the area and she'll have friends and so on and so on

but have you considered

that's my child and I'm going to miss her! That's my little buddy! She'll be gone all day! What do you mean that's 8 hours that I don't get to see her growing and learning and being a little person and I only get a few hours at the beginning and end?

No joke, school system is busted, that's the equivalent of a full-time job and she'll barely be FIVE. Who thought this was okay?

I'm gonna miss my little bean :( :( :(d

[br1ghtestlight]

THEYRE SO LITTLE what the hell. they're tiny babies. so small <3

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

[academicelephant]

Mid to late 2000s 💕

[lilac-rose-writes]

kindergarten 2 was announced may 14th and released july 30th, so here's hoping we don't have that long a wait for the threequel! in a month and a half, my exams will be over, so it looks like i might not be out of the loop just yet! :D

[sirenofthetimes]

i llisted to a podcast series about a year ago called sold a story about how throughout the 90s and early 2000s, i believe, there was this reading method that became popular in a lot of american schools that consisted of telling kids to just kind of...look at words and guess at what they might say from context clues and surrounding illustrations? which might work for learning new words if you already can read but this was being taught as a way to learn to read period. from zero. no phonics involved or anything. and apparently it just straight up doesn't work,and there are tons of kids (in rich neighborhoods! which is how you know things have gotten bad!) who just straight up didn't know how to read and hated it and struggled with it until their parents intervened and got a tutor or taught their kids how to read at home. and i think about all those people walking around who just...never really learned how to read and resent the whole practice and have so much shame around it,and it's just sad and concerning. because it's just such an institutional failure, by people who really believed they were doing a good thing. the good news is that apparently you can learn how to read via methods that actually work (which for english apparently involves a lot of phonics training: learning which combinations of letters make which sounds and how to string them together) at any time and it's never too late, so there's that i suppose

[thedarkestgreys]

each week this month we’ve done a lesson on someone important in the civil rights era for black history month. today it was MLK JR and we learned about his dream for America and the world.

as a class we discussed our dreams for the world, with my example of: I have a dream that every child gets to grow up safe and healthy. And then I asked my class to tell me their dreams so they could draw them for me.

Mind you I teach four and five year olds. So we had some range, but this the best example of what that range was:

“I have a dream that everyone can have a miracle!” followed directly by “I have a dream that everyone can pet a pig!”

[guinevereslancelot]

hm am i going insane or is it just november

[thawthebeez]

girl help the sugakage brainworms are eating me alive noooooooo

[jumpstartpicoftheday]

Rare prototype box art designs for JumpStart Kindergarten (1994) and JumpStart Pre-K obtained from newspaper ads, found by LunaMouse23 of the JumpStart Wiki.

[hunsa-jars]

Bnuuys

[forgaeven1]

i've got a job interview today, and as you'd expect, i'm mighty nervous. if i'm more absent / present ooc ( really, my anxiety loves playing russian roulette with my attention ) , that's why !

[l3ominor]

tonight's struggle with homework. I'm so done with this class.