I'm with ya on the getting nervous for Kindergarten.  We have elected to put the twins into private school.  Just for my insanity sake...Mississippi isn't known for it's excellence in public schools.  I've found a couple of cool workbooks for them to do every week or so and just challange their brains. 

I belong to the Children's Book of the Month Club (http://www.cbomc.com) and got The Disney Learning Alphabet & Numbers, along with Highlights High Five, Puzzle Buzz and got some workbooks from Barnes & Noble for the Pre-K and K level, which they love working on.  I also belong to the Letter of the Week YAHOO! Group and use their website (http://www.letteroftheweek.com/preparatory.html), which is based on learning a letter a week (it is for homeschooling parents but it applies to us moms that are trying to prepare our kids for school).  It has AWESOME ideas for the kids to learn their letters, numbers, shapes, etc.

My daughter, Ashleigh is more inclined to do "school" work as she puts it.  My son, Austin "AJ" would rather be a boy and play with cars, trucks, etc.  But they do know the alphabet song, and numbers up to 20, but miss some here and there.  They are slowly starting to recognize numbers & letters, but to spell their names or address & telephone number, that is just something that they haven't even attempted yet.  They know our first names and that we live in Gulfport, MS, but that is about all they could tell ya.  Now if you are in the car and they recognize where they are, they can tell you how to get home.

It amazes me what they want our children to know, if they haven't been exposed to a school setting.  We do have a Head Start program here, but we didn't get accepted.  Preschool here is a glorified daycare setting, unless you go private and we don't have $2K to shell out for that a month.

I am going to work part-time and pay for them to attend private school for $500 a month, but it is thru the church we attend and I know a lot of the teachers and I know that they are in good hands.  My one concern is that Kindergarten doesn't have two classes, so they will be in the same class together. 

When I was in preschool and Kindergarten, I went half days and it was in public school, but I transfered to private school once I hit 1st grade because I had a hard time focusing...could have been ADD or ADHD but back then...30 something years ago, they didn't know what that was!  LOL

I'm just glad I'm not alone in this.  I also think that they learn a lot from the different learning shows like PBS and PBS Sprout.  They are learning sign language, Spanish, and some Chinese.  So that's pretty cool if you ask me.

I'm with ya on the getting nervous for Kindergarten.  We have elected to put the twins into private school.  Just for my insanity sake...Mississippi isn't known for it's excellence in public schools.  I've found a couple of cool workbooks for them to do every week or so and just challange their brains. 

I belong to the Children's Book of the Month Club (http://www.cbomc.com) and got The Disney Learning Alphabet & Numbers, along with Highlights High Five, Puzzle Buzz and got some workbooks from Barnes & Noble for the Pre-K and K level, which they love working on.  I also belong to the Letter of the Week YAHOO! Group and use their website (http://www.letteroftheweek.com/preparatory.html), which is based on learning a letter a week (it is for homeschooling parents but it applies to us moms that are trying to prepare our kids for school).  It has AWESOME ideas for the kids to learn their letters, numbers, shapes, etc.

My daughter, Ashleigh is more inclined to do "school" work as she puts it.  My son, Austin "AJ" would rather be a boy and play with cars, trucks, etc.  But they do know the alphabet song, and numbers up to 20, but miss some here and there.  They are slowly starting to recognize numbers & letters, but to spell their names or address & telephone number, that is just something that they haven't even attempted yet.  They know our first names and that we live in Gulfport, MS, but that is about all they could tell ya.  Now if you are in the car and they recognize where they are, they can tell you how to get home.

It amazes me what they want our children to know, if they haven't been exposed to a school setting.  We do have a Head Start program here, but we didn't get accepted.  Preschool here is a glorified daycare setting, unless you go private and we don't have $2K to shell out for that a month.

I am going to work part-time and pay for them to attend private school for $500 a month, but it is thru the church we attend and I know a lot of the teachers and I know that they are in good hands.  My one concern is that Kindergarten doesn't have two classes, so they will be in the same class together. 

When I was in preschool and Kindergarten, I went half days and it was in public school, but I transfered to private school once I hit 1st grade because I had a hard time focusing...could have been ADD or ADHD but back then...30 something years ago, they didn't know what that was!  LOL

I'm just glad I'm not alone in this.  I also think that they learn a lot from the different learning shows like PBS and PBS Sprout.  They are learning sign language, Spanish, and some Chinese.  So that's pretty cool if you ask me.