[blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!

[trishs]

Hard to believe that this country ranks last in education!

> ----- Original Message -----
>From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net
>To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org
>Date sent: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:06:09 -0600
>Subject: Re: [blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!

>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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