For those who are somewhat familiar, can you tell me what a child should minimally know (from your p…

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For those who are somewhat familiar, can you tell me what a child should minimally know (from your perspective, maybe not professional) to adequately start grasping the curriculum that begins in second grade and get on track? My little one started extra classes (yes, I know I'm thinking ahead). A year ago, they covered school subjects like English, pronunciation, and so on (now I doubt he'll remember much). Currently, they're focusing on numbers. They practice and teach pronunciation for 1-20 and fluency up to 100. The homework involves connecting the number with its written form (he seems completely clueless about what's going on; they give him cards with the English number names, and he has to find and match them) — is this how they introduce concepts? I feel like once the numbers topic is over, he'll at best remember some pronunciation, and that's it 😁 even though he's a smart kid.
Actually, not about you, but about sons? I used to wear slightly loose ones, but I've been reading t…
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Elena
knew their letters, sounds, could read. Learned some words
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Volgina Natalya
Elena With this background, do they learn with a 4-5 grade understanding of the program?
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Elena
Elena What's there to understand? You need to understand when grammar starts.
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Volgina Natalya
Elena The internet is going crazy saying the program is bad and kids don't understand... I want to prepare the minimum, at least
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Elena
Elena Some moms complain about homework and don't understand.
Until the middle of third grade, the kids did English completely on their own. I showed them how to use a dictionary to look up words for translation.
Afterwards, we'd sit down again after class and I'd explain the grammar. We'd write down the rule together and draw a table (I bought little books on Wildberries that explained more clearly where everything comes from).
Of course, it also depends on how the teacher presents the material.
No major problems.
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Volgina Natalya
Elena Share what you ordered? Maybe I'll check some out for next year
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yankovskaya yuliya
There's the "Spotlight Starter" textbook for 1st grade, which is basically the foundation and prepares for the second level, the one that starts in 2nd grade. It's an optional paid extra for us in 1st grade. But, unfortunately, you can't really keep English at a high level without a linguistics background. The school provides the curriculum, but there's simply no time allocated for reinforcing the material, which is why most kids struggle with English by 5th grade.
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Elena
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The last 2 little books, we learned to read and words from them.
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Anichka
I was totally shocked. English from the second grade. On the first lesson, they were forced to read. They weren't given any tasks to learn the alphabet over the summer. They don't really teach it in class. Luckily, my daughter understands some of it. I actually learned German.
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Tatyana K
We didn't do anything extra before English started at school, except for the alphabet in cartoons and games. For the first while, I just helped with homework, explained things, and checked if they understood the topics covered. There were NO problems. My child understands everything and gets a 5 (top grade) in the subject. Honestly, parents create more panic about this than necessary. You don't go study physics and chemistry before they're taught in school, right?!
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Olesya
The main thing is to master at least the basics of reading by 2nd grade, because in a month they learn the alphabet and start reading and filling in letters in words. I'm teaching my child the alphabet in 1st grade, how to read at least simple words, numbers, colors, animals, simple actions, and very simple sentences. 'This is a cat. It is black. It can run and jump. It likes fish.' That's the ideal by the end of 1st grade
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Svetlana Kovshova
the alphabet (but this can also be learned in the first lessons of September), and to do homework well (so that you yourself can understand, explain, and correct it).
Everything else will catch up and be learned in class.
There won't be many rules yet, no tenses or anything like that. Just reading, memorizing words, and the verb 'to be'.
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Svetlana Kovshova
Svetlana Kovshova If you're struggling with English yourself, it makes sense to take extra classes.
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lenchik
Ugh, this stupid textbook...
Learn the alphabet, start phonetics.
And then, if you want to learn the language and not just prepare for class, get another textbook and do extra activities.
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Chudaeva Elena
I haven't gone anywhere, the teacher explains everything fine. When I missed class due to illness, we watched video lessons from the textbook, there are plenty on YouTube and Rutube. She's getting excellent grades.
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