Does your child know their address?

[RF536]

I was helping out in my DS8's second grade class room, earlier this week and I was surprised by the number of kids who had no idea what their address was. One of the centers they were suppose to do was write a letter to the president, so I was to help them with the return address if they needed it. I was surprised that most of them couldn't even begin to tell me what it was, I thought I would be doing more helping with spelling, not telling them the whole address.

Both of my boys knew our address before they started kindergarten, this is something we worked on from about age 3 on, since we do travel a lot we always thought this and our phone number was something they needed to know.

 

[Mkrop]

This was a requirement in preschool for my boys.

It is a shame that in 2nd grade they dont know it but at least you can help some and maybe the teacher can stress the importance to the parents if you make her aware of it. Never too late

 

[mjmoon]

I'm working on this with my DS5 right now. He has all our cell phone numbers memorized, (and enjoys calling Nana, Papa and Daddy several times daily) which I thought was more important to learn first. I'm hoping he'll know it and be able to write it before he starts K in the fall.

 

[Ashlander]

My kids learned this in pre-school. I know they focus on it in Kindergarten because it is part of their report card.

 

[Ephany]

We had DD memorize our address when she was 4 and in pre-K. It's actually one of the things they're working on in her kindergarten class this week. She doesn't quite understand the difference between a city, county, and a state yet, but they're working on that also.

 

[mjkacmom]

Kids learn it in preschool here. However, my kindergarteners don't know their zipcode, but the others do.

 

[sohappy]

I know my 6 year old doesn't, he knows the street and the complex name, but not the address. We have moved twice in 2 years. He knows our oldest address (as it was our family home and I thought we would be there forever). He does know our cell #s- which we always have with us. When we settle (hopefully this will be the last move), they will both learn our address.

 

[ilandrazdsw]

My kids know where they live, but no the mailing address which is a PO BOX #. DS is at the age he needs to know his phone # and address, but with moving we didn't want to get him confused so we are waiting til we move (shortly) for he and DD to learn both # and address. By second grade I would think they should know most of it though.

 

[almburr]

Yep, two blocks that way from school! Yes they now the street and house and town, state zip not yet, oldest knows

 

[wdwmom0f3]

Thankfully mine know it too. Did anyone see the 911 call on the news from the 5 year old who when asked "what is your address?" the child said it's the house with the purple bike out front? Oh my. The child had been left all day to watch her two younger siblings.

 

[Luv Bunnies]

My son's Jr. Kindergarten teacher had an effective method for teaching the kids all of their vital information. When they first entered the room, the kids had to find their assigned seat at the tables by looking for their first names. Their names marked their spots for the first couple of months. After that, she changed the seating chart and put their last names on their places. Again, their last names were their place markers for a while. Then she moved on to their phone numbers. They helped each child find their place and left the phone number taped to the tables for a while. The kids would look at their numbers each time they sat at their tables. They moved on to using their addresses and parent's names later in the year. By the end of the year, every child could spell their first and last names, knew their address and phone numbers and parent's names. I thought it was a great way to teach them.

 

[RMulieri]

This is a requirement in my DDs preschool.Name,address,work on pH #, and birthday

 

[irene_dsc]

Alas, I don't think he does. However, in our defense, before we moved, just before kindy, he knew his street and town. Our new address is long - I do have it on our refrigerator with a little picture of our house. However, we haven't drilled him on it, and his school hasn't either. He does know our town, at least, and could probably give you pretty good directions in order to find our house if necessary. He can also call me from dh's cell - tho he doesn't know either of our cell #'s.

 

[laura&fam]

My daughter has fourth grade friends who she doesn't play with because they can't tell her their phone number to call after school. I kind of get that some people have a cell phone for mom and one for dad, but come on, fourth grade and you can't tell some one your phone number!

 

[jeepgirl30]

My DS6 knows his address, when he wants to! We practiced all summer prior to Kgarten. I get the first report card and it is fabulous up until address and he gets a minus. I said "DS, what is our address?" He says "I don't know" I said yes you do, you know where we live. He said "oh yea ..... " and recites it. I asked why didn't he tell his teacher, he said he didn't feel like it that day.

Same thing happend with reading. I got a letter he needed to be in the special reading program. I asked him if the teacher had tested him on reading. He said "yes but I didn't like her so I didn't talk at all". I called the school and they retested him, he scored well above average.

I have a DD8 so I've been through this! She really struggles but he just picks and chooses days to "let people know i know things".

 

[Leajess99]

I was helping out in my DS8's second grade class room, earlier this week and I was surprised by the number of kids who had no idea what their address was. One of the centers they were suppose to do was write a letter to the president, so I was to help them with the return address if they needed it. I was surprised that most of them couldn't even begin to tell me what it was, I thought I would be doing more helping with spelling, not telling them the whole address.

Both of my boys knew our address before they started kindergarten, this is something we worked on from about age 3 on, since we do travel a lot we always thought this and our phone number was something they needed to know.

My kids know their address but there are even some 5th graders who did not know how to write their addresses. They knew the address but could not write it themselves. Very scary.

 

[Leajess99]

We had DD memorize our address when she was 4 and in pre-K. It's actually one of the things they're working on in her kindergarten class this week. She doesn't quite understand the difference between a city, county, and a state yet, but they're working on that also.

I honestly think that is an age thing because we are having the same issues with the city, state, and county as well.

 

[ktlm]

WOW- My DD is 2 and she has known her address (including city and state) for quite a while (I think since right around her 2nd birthday, but she was a really early talker). She doesn't know her zip because I didn't think about teaching her that. She gets her phone number mixed up because it has repeating numbers. I can't imagine being 8 and not knowing your address and phone number unless you've either recently moved, or lived in a lot of places.

 

[fireflymedic]

we try to go walking (kids in stroller) every day, and the kids 2 & 3 will keep asking were's my home at, were's my home at (they do this also in the car) so we keep telling thims its at 3048, Lawrence Rd., now they may not know the town but they have that much down, although they bucher the street name preety bad

 

[Leajess99]

Thankfully mine know it too. Did anyone see the 911 call on the news from the 5 year old who when asked "what is your address?" the child said it's the house with the purple bike out front? Oh my. The child had been left all day to watch her two younger siblings.

I saw that because it happened in Louisville. The younger kids were 3 and 1 and the mother claims she did nothing wrong. It was during our winter mess and I hope they take the kids from this woman. http://www.wave3.com/Global/story.asp?S=9782754&nav=0RZFY5CD - For those interested in the story.