How do you make weeknights less chaotic when homework, dinner, sports, showers, and bedtime all hit at once?
Everyone around me is already doing letter workbooks and all that. My son is 4 and he counts random stuff, asks big questions all day, but the second I pull out tracing sheets he is done in like 2 minutes. I don't want him behind, but also don't want school to feel boring before it even starts.
I would not worry too much about worksheets at 4. My kid learned letters from street signs, cereal boxes, and me writing silly notes. The big kindergarten stuff was waiting a turn, opening lunch, asking for help, and not falling apart if he lost a game.
My daughter was a worksheet kid, my son was not. Both were fine. For him we did chalk letters outside, counting rocks, measuring rain in a cup, stuff like that. It looked like play but he was learning.
One thing I wish I practiced more was bathroom and clothing independence. We spent all this time on letters and then he couldnt manage his jacket zipper. The teacher cared way more about that in September.
Curiosity is not nothing. If he asks about bugs, get library books, draw the life cycle, count legs, compare insects. That is science and reading readiness, just not in a packet.