Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Kindergarten Application Process in NYC

Many people talk about how this process is CRAZY and it sure is. All the videos and comments you have heard do not do justice to the amount of time you spend thinking about and working on this process. However, one thing that saved our family was the fact that our daughter did really well on the ERB (the private school entrance exam). She did well because of the the work she has been exposed to not TEST PREPPING ( I am not just saying I didn't prep to look good, we really DID NOT prep.) One thing you could do IMMEDIATELY to help your child during these tests:




Get two sets of something (blocks, papers, objects, tangrams) and arrange them in a particular order and have your child COPY your object organization. Once they copy it its their turn to arrange them. Do you best to get trickier every time.  Build structures up, place objects underneath one another etc.