[blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!

[Elizabeth Cooks]

Before ia placed Angelica in Head Start, she was in a preschool where the 
teacher focused on teaching the kids to write their letters as well as 
recognizing them.  She's not in that school anymore for two reasons:  The 
price, and the fact that I can't get anyone dependable to take me there. 
There is no relia ble transportation, and the person I was car pooling with 
didn't take her child half of the time.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net>
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 12:15 PM
Subject: Re: [blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!


> I've also noticed that private schools have much higher expectations than
> public schools.  Here in NM, they wanted the kids to know their colors,
> their alphabet, and how to spell their name.  But my friend child went to 
> a
> private school and her child had to know the same stuff as the public plus
> how to write their names and what the long and short sounds were of each
> letter and of course, both private and public expected the kids to know
> their nembers 1 to 10. V
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Melissa Ann Riccobono" <melissa at riccobono.us>
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> Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 7:43 AM
> Subject: Re: [blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!
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>> Yes, it is certainly amazing how much kindergarten has changed.  When I
>> was
>> a school counselor and planning lessons for kindergarten I was surprised
>> about how much they knew and were expected to know.  Not sure how I feel
>> about it...  I guess it's the wave of the future.
>> Melissa
>>
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>> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf Of Eileen
>> Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 7:41 PM
>> To: 'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'
>> 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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