[blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!

[Veronica Smith]

Congratulations on your first teacher conference.  I am weird, I really love 
going and findout what kinds of stuff the kids are doing.  when i used to 
volunteer in Gab's class I used to see what they were doing from week to 
week.  This is the first year the teacher didn't need or want me in the 
class, so next week we're going to the parent teacher conference and I can't 
wait to see what's happening.  I know that Gab is doing well, bringing home 
90's and 100's on her spelling tests.  Boy they had big words for third 
graders today- excitability, gingerbread, generation, celebrate, forceps, 
circular, centimeter, there is more, but ican't remember the list. V
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eileen" <eileenlevin at comcast.net>
To: "'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 5:41 PM
Subject: [blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!


>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
>
>
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