Anyone with school age kids..Common Core

[cindylou]

Is anything different? Do you notice a change? Do you like it?

Will you watch this video and tell me if your kids working on stuff like this? Do you see all your kids textbooks and workbooks? Do they look like this?

I don't know how I stumbled onto this video but I've been curious about the new standards.

What do you think about some of the stuff in this video being taught to six year olds? No big deal?

 

[miplank]

my video was better

 

[cindylou]

oh it was

 

[shirlene29]

no...the only thing that is even close for my 6 yrs olds stuff was basic stuff last year like ..voting, democracy, parties, uhm, branches of government

I dont see their actual textboks because theyre on ipads that live in school at her grade
I mean theyve got the normal, be respectful to other, everyone is different, everyone has strengths and weaknesses stuff but nothing on quite that scale


the oldest deals with social stuff like bullying, volunteering, but then she has a stock exchange field trip and some cia thing too...so its pretty broad

also a school spirit "fairy or wizard" day that was frankly hilarious as well as an apocolypse day



Ive only seen those type of books in the vid in books stores but never in their classrooms



I think I'd be a bit freaked about it but the author of the vid also obv has a spin hes trying to play too.
the 6 yr olds writing last year was a lot of "science" reports..she did a pretty good one on bats..lol

 

[miplank]

um, yes your kids are doing common core..


maybe not that text book but 45 states have adopted common core standards.



Someone please explain it to shirl so she can be an expert on this too

 

[cindylou]

Shirl has your state started it yet? Missouri hasn't yet

 

[cindylou]

um, yes your kids are doing common core..


maybe not that text book but 45 states have adopted it.



Someone please explain it to shirl so she can be an expert on this too

I think she was talking about the actual textbook?

 

[shirlene29]

yeah, the actual textbook or any type of socialism theme is what I was talking about

 

[miplank]

I think she was talking about the actual textbook?

 

[shirlene29]

SDE: Common Core State Standards in Connecticut

as to common core curriculum ^^^^