Learning letters

So my latest undertaking is to prepare our 5 year old for Kindergarten. He is smart as a whip and comes up with deep and creative thoughts. He is very outgoing and social and has no problem making friends. He has a wonderfully creative imagination and can entertain himself for hours. As far as the academic stuff goes (you know - reading, writing, arithmetic) he has it in him just waiting to come out. It's in there. We know it is. We just need to find the "on switch." That thing that makes it all click. We know that he will get it and kindergarten is the place for that. Kindergarten has changed so much since I was a kid. I remember learning about sharing, playing in the sand table, coloring at the tables and doing paper mache'.

We went to the kindergarten information meeting and they would like kids to know how to write their name before they come to school. That's fine. Kenan is progressing and learning. But the fact that I'm mom, and he is very independant makes for a struggle at times. Then since it's no going how I envision, I worry and think to myself, maybe we are making the wrong decision. But slowly I am reminded that he is only 5 and it's kindergarten for crying out loud! It's not the SATs. I am also reminded that his big brother was in the same spot academically before he entered Kindergarten as well and by the end of the school year he was reading and writing more than his name! Kenan will get there, I just need to rest in that and not fret about everything else.

My prayer for today is that God would give me patience and gentleness, and that I would see the progress Kenan is making rather than what he hasn't attained. After all it is only kindergarten, not the SATs.

By the way, today we are reviewing Kk, Ee, and learning Aa.