[blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!

[Eileen]

I just had my first parent teacher conference for kindergarten and I am
in shock! The teacher sat for ten minutes just showing us all the
material the class
has covered in the first 4 weeks of class. They are expected to know all
the letter names and sounds, rhyming,  write their name, and other
things that
I can't even remember now.

Each child is working on a monthly calendar,  personal essays and they
not only discuss activities they form sentences about it as a group on
the board.

Wow! When I was working with Asher on learning to read I had no idea
that he would be using all those skills  immediately.

All the preschool told me was that he needed to work on lower case
letters so I went out and bought a set of lowercase letter tiles from
office depo. We
used the tiles to make words and play junior scrabble.

When I was a kid, if I covered the entire alphabet in kindergarten it
was a major achievement. phew
Eileen