[blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!

Sun Oct 26 15:36:45 UTC 2008

Oh, yeah, you're right...  I forgot the other meaning of this word!  Still
seems like kind of a strange spelling word.  But what do I know?  Smile.
Melissa

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From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Veronica Smith
Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2008 12:26 AM
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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
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From: "Melissa Ann Riccobono" <melissa at riccobono.us>
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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
>
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> 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!
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> 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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> Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 5:41 PM
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>
>>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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