The first year of primary education is commonly referred to as kindergarten and begins at or around age 5 or 6. Subsequent years are usually numbered being referred to as first grade, second grade, and so forth. Some elementary schools graduate after the 4th or 5th grade and transition students into a middle school.

Froebel called for German women to come together and support the kindergarten. Because he described children as plants and teachers as gardeners, the term kindergarten emerged, kinder meaning child and garten meaning garden (Headley, 1965). He felt that children should learn through play.

1 : a child attending or of an age to attend kindergarten. 2 : a teacher at a kindergarten.

The word kindergarten comes from the German language. Kinder means children and garten means garden. Hence, he founded an early education program for young children, which he called kindergarten.

Sight words are words that your students learn to read and place in their “sight word bank”. This means that they are able to read the word by sight, no longer needing to use decoding skills or phonics patterns to help them read.

Age Requirements & Grades

The main difference between the two is the children’s age and their developmental abilities. In preschool, a student is between the age of 2 to 4 years old, while a child in pre-kindergarten is 4 to 5 years old. Children in pre-k programs are focused on getting ready for kindergarten.

Pupils in Reception are usually aged between four and five. Children start school either in the term or in the academic year in which they reach five, depending on the policy of the Local Education Authority. Reception is the final part of the Early Years Foundation Stage of education.

‘ Indeed, the NFER’s research found that children described Reception as a period centred around play, whereas they said that Year 1 was all about ‘work, work, work’.

Key stages

Year 6 children will learn about square, prime and negative numbers. They will be multiplying and dividing with numbers up to four digits, using formal, efficient methods. They will be doing more complicated work with fractions, decimals and percentages.

Year / Grade Placement

In Year 1, children will need to count forwards and backwards up to 100. They will need to know their addition and subtraction facts to 20. Children will need to find half and a quarter of a shape or quantity. They will start to measure using standard units and will learn to tell the time to the hour and half-hour.

Common exception words are words where the usual spelling rule doesn’t apply; such as the common exception words “friend”, “there”, “they” and “said”. Some of these exception words are used frequently, therefore children are introduced to common exception words in year 1 and year 2.

Reception maths – your child will be:

• Counting up to ten and beyond, using cardinal numbers.
• Recognising the numbers 1 to 9.
• Counting aloud in ones, twos, fives, tens.
• Estimating a number of objects and checking by counting.
• Matching and comparing the number of objects in two groups.

Children entering Year 7 are generally aged between 10½ and 12. Year 7 pupils are educated in full primary schools, intermediate schools, and in some areas area schools or combined intermediate and secondary schools.

Your child’s year group

Students entering Year 13 are usually aged between 16.5 and 18. A student may stay in Year Thirteen until the end of the calendar year following their 19th birthday. Year Thirteen pupils are educated in secondary schools or in area schools.

Students in Year 12 are aged between 15 and 16.

No, most 12th graders here in the US are 18 when they graduate. There is a relatively small group of kids who will turn 19 by graduation, but they are in the minority and usually comprise of students who were either kept back an extra year earlier or who failed a year and had to repeat.

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