[blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!

Sun Oct 26 21:35:18 UTC 2008

Gabriella just told me that the word forceps is a very fancy word for 
tweezers. V
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From: "trishs" <slosser at metrocast.net>
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Subject: Re: [blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!

> That's a birthing tool as well, for guiding the head.  Dangerous
> things, those.
>
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>>From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net
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>>Date sent: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 22:25:33 -0600
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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
>>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!
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>
>>> 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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>>> Behalf Of Veronica Smith
>>> Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 2:06 PM
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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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>>> 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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