4's assessment

[MissAnn]

I admit to 2 areas I have ignored......

Tying shoes and addresses. Why? Because parents do not help at all! Phone numbers are easy enough (unless it's a cell phone from another area code). Tying shoes...well, parents hardly let kids put on/take off their shoes! They DO at MY house...but not once they go home.

I just took both off my assessment. Am I terrible?

[Shell]

Nope. I used to teach Kindergarten, in a state well known for its education, and we weren't required to teach tying shoes. It just sort of came naturally to kids at that age, and I had these shoe tying props for the kids to practice with. I guess if you feel like you "should" be teaching this, maybe buy one of these shoes for the kids to practice, or use an old sneaker, and let them have a go with it.
As far as the address thing, that one actually was on our assessment used during the screening process. Kids just were deducted a point if they didn't know it. I always told parents to help their kids by being over the top dramatic about their street name as they were driving down, "oh look, here's (street name) lane, this is where we live. Parents have to be on board, we can't teach them everything!!!

[SignMeUp]

One place that you could support their learning without teaching individual addresses, is to talk about what city and state and country you live in.
And to point out the numbers on houses or mailboxes - and suggest that they look at their own houses for their special numbers.

And for shoe-tying if you don't want to teach the whole process, teach them only the first step: making a big x and putting one string under the other and pulling it down tight to their shoe. If they do that regularly, the next step will come easily to them later. And for most kids, it's much easier to manage the laces for the first step.

[Blackcat31]

I admit to 2 areas I have ignored......

Tying shoes and addresses. Why? Because parents do not help at all! Phone numbers are easy enough (unless it's a cell phone from another area code). Tying shoes...well, parents hardly let kids put on/take off their shoes! They DO at MY house...but not once they go home.

I just took both off my assessment. Am I terrible?

I'm confused...

You took it out of an assessment your area schools or licensing has you do with the kids or you took it off a personal assessment that you use?

Looking through the million page assessment that my QRIS people have us use...there is nothing about shoe tying or memorizing their address/phone number so I bet it't not that big of a deal.

Plus, I think those kinds of things are things parents should be doing with their kids.