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how to keep her motivated.
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Thu, 09-06-2012 - 10:52pm

My 3 year old is half way through kindergarten easily. I am homeschooling so I am letting her learn at her speed and not really worrying about it unless she falls behind. This year I am "starting" kindergarten. I got the books and tested her but she is closer to a grade 1 level so we are really doing work half way through to the beginning of grade 1. Now my problem is she is going to be going to a homeschooling group once every other week. They kind of think of her as too young but said it was ok as long as she doesn't get in the way. Her cousin is going to be going to. Her cousin is in kindergarten and is far behind her. The problem is my daughter is very interested in staying at the same level as her cousen. I don't want her to figure out she is so far ahead of her and then start doming herself down to her level. This happened with potty training. She was almost potty trained and then found out that her cousin wore pull ups so she started peeing in her pants all the time. There will be 3 other kindergartens and one grade 1 that is closer to a kindergarten level there. She will be the youngest by 2 years. I want her to go so she is not starting these things when she is doing grade 3 work. I just couldn't put her in a kindergarten situation at that time.

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