The German word kindergarten means a child's garden and even today this first year of formal school will be filled with opportunities to plant seeds of learning for your child. Sending a child to kindergarten may be more stressful for the parents than the child. Traditionally, first grade is thought of as the time that children learn to read. Many first-graders do indeed learn to read, but they also learn other important skills as this exciting year is very diverse in its curriculum.
First graders are chatterboxes who seem to talk nonstop.
This plays as much a part of their learning to read as any other activity they will be doing this year. The second grade year is a wonderful time for children to become increasingly proficient in every area of the basic skills and to build on those skills by adding new and interesting information. Second-graders become more flexible in their thinking, which makes learning enjoyable. Connie Bramblett One of the exciting breakthroughs for the third-grade year will be the types of books that children will want to read. In all of their work you will see more detail.