[blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!

[trishs]

That's a birthing tool as well, for guiding the head.  Dangerous 
things, those.

> ----- Original Message -----
>From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net
>To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org
>Date sent: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 22:25:33 -0600
>Subject: Re: [blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!

>Forceps are somekind of tool they use in science.  I thought the 
same thing.
>They use forceps to pick up creepy things in their bug science 
project.  V
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Melissa Ann Riccobono" <melissa at riccobono.us
>To: "'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org
>Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 2:36 PM
>Subject: Re: [blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!


>> OK, forceps is an extremely weird spelling word!  It's not a 
dirty word or
>> anything, but how exactly do they use that in a sentence?  Just 
seems a
>> little strange to me!
>> Melissa

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org 
[mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf Of Veronica Smith
>> Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 2:06 PM
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>> 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
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>> From: "Eileen" <eileenlevin at comcast.net
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>> 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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