[blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!

[Veronica Smith]

And Gab's school is considered a Blue ribbon school, scoring the highest in 
this state for math and science. V
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From: "trishs" <slosser at metrocast.net>
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 2:41 PM
Subject: Re: [blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!


> 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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