Kindergarten Reading Help

Archive for November, 2009

I have a daughter who I am starting homeschooling this fall. She is smart and eager to learn she likes to do book work and learn new things. ( like most kids) Being my oldest she seems to have a great attention span and love for learning. I am just overwhelmed with all the stuff out there. Lots of the reviews seem to be for older grades and I am just thinking for teaching her to read I really want something that is going to work and both she and I can enjoy doing together. I would love any feedback and link to anything you may thing is helpful. thanks in advance!!!!!

My daughter has severe anxiety at school and possibly selective mutism. Shes been having problems in K because of it and the teacher wants to know if they should leave her in K or move her to first. It’s up to us. Teacher says that she doesn’t comprehend what she reads and the pace will be too fast for her in 1st. She will probably be in special ed. either way, although do you think if we leave her in K we should leave her in general ed? Because of her anxiety, she doesn’t answer the teacher’s questions most of the time or even talk to her or the other kids. We are trying to get her therapy over the summer to deal with it. The school doesn’t understand her anxiety and they think she is learning disabled although she can do most of the work at home with no problem. The teacher wants to know by tomorrow and I don’t know what to tell them.

Solar Panel

I also have taken many tests that say I’m more right brained (more common for left handers). I also remember being in kindergarten and having to use the scissors other ppl didn’t wanna use.
Could I have been left handed, but trained to use my right hand in school?
If you need more details just ask.

Last year, I cut my hair. My friend started avoiding me, and started hanging out with this.. *****. She started to act like her too. Anyway, In music class at the end of the first semester, they started talking about me. I was sitting right next to them, so they started writing notes. They wrote three pages about how I’m fatter than someone who weighs over 200 pounds when I only weigh 98. How I smell, my water was cut off. Somehow they got the idea I was bisexual, and I was a whore. I kept looking over there, because I saw my name on the paper. They started calling me a *****. At the end of class, some boy found it on the floor and gave it to me. I read it, and I felt soo bad. My best friend all of a sudden turned on me. I gave it to the teacher, and she gave it to the principle, and they both got ISS. Its been over a year and I still feel horrible. On the last day of school, they did it again. They knew I was going to be there. They stole something of mine, tripped me, and all of that. When we got on the bus, I stepped on and the ***** threw her bags into my seat and started talking like she was everything and I was stupid. Only two of my friends stayed with me through that year. Everyone else was against me.
How would you handle it? I only have one year left with her, before she moves across the world. She tried talking to me again, while I was laughing and having fun with my other friends. She seemed depressed. I want to try again this year.
Sorry about the hugeness..

I am home educating my child and am not sure what are the standards in Florida . He can do easy addition and subtraction (up to 20) , count to 100 , recognize coins , tells time to 1h and 1/2 h , measures in inches ,place values, families numbers. Reads well short&long vowels words,sh ,kn,-ing, blends. Writes all letters , numbers 1-20 ,spells 3-4 letters words , own name . Knows days of the week/ months , all 7 continents , some countries&capitals, some science , history and one foreign language (I speak another language) .
Anything I am missing? I will homeschool him until he will be 2nd grade and I don’t want him to be behind .
Any website that tells me exactly what are the standards?

I wake up crying everyday wanting to kill myself. I know I Can’t because of damage it may do. Im married to someone no longer have feelings for. He loves me & is committed to relationship. I feel lost, alone, out of control. I am physically/ emotionally unavailable to our daughter. I am unable to play w/ her. I believe I am letting everyone down and wasting everyones time. I have no friends and do not go out. I don’t have anyone to speak w/ & am trapped. Even if I could leave I have nowhere to go. I really just want to kill myself but all this guilt about what I may or may not be doing to my daughter is making me sick. I read how you have to be happy so your kids can be happy but where does that leave the rest of us struggling w/ mental illness? I go for help. It’s not working. I don’t want to feel this way. I don’t want to be yelling at my daughter for no reason. She doesn’t deserve this miserable life I am showing her. Somedays are better than others, hit or miss. It’s a nightmare.

is this statement right for you?? (for me it’s damm right??)”not mean in negative way”..
man utd 1st goal is alright but other goal..lol,WTF!!
anyway,i thought premier league is the best league in world but it’s does not made the best “RULE” in the world,i thought i have read all football rule but maybe i miss about a team still can play even without a manager…they don’t have manager!!WTF!!i thought if the team don’t have manager,they still can play but they had to give strong excuse to why they don’t have manager (like the manager in jail or something)..anyway,tevez second goal is really dumb,but tevez act together with the fan make referee get more payroll form man utd…

If you answer a question, click on check spelling box. I can’t figure out comments a lot of times. Some reponses are so hard to interpert, it’s like reading my kindergarten’s class writing.

Summarize and evaluate passage using the appropriate criteria for evaluation – theory or argument?
1. In the late 1990s, the U.S. Department of Education undertook a monumental project called the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study. The ECLS sought to measure the academic progress of more than twenty thousand children from kindergarten through the fifth grade. The subjects were chosen from across the country to represent an accurate cross section of American schoolchildren.
The ECLS measured the students’ academic performance and
gathered typical survey information about each child: his race,
gender, family structure, socioeconomic status, the level of his
parents’ education, and so on. But the study went well beyond
these basics. It also included interviews with the students’ parents
(and teachers and school administrators), posing a long list of
questions … : whether the parents spanked their children, and how
often; whether they took them to libraries or museums; how much
television the children watched …
So what does all this [datal. have to say about the importance of
parents [to children's success in school]? Consider … the eight
factors that are correlated with school test scores [i.e., test scores vary
with these factors l:
• The child has highly educated parents.
• The child's parents have high socioeconomic status.
• The child's mother was thirty or older at the time of her first
child's birth.
The child had low birth eight.
The child's parents speak English in the home.
The child is adopted.
The child's parents are involved in the PTA [Parent Teacher
Association].
The child has many books in his home.
And the eight factors that are not [i.e., the factors bear no relation to
test scores]:
• The child’s family is intact.
• The child’s parents recently moved into a better neighborhood.
• The child’s mother didn’t work between birth and kindergarten.
• The child attended Head Start.
• The child’s parents regularly take him to museums.
• The child is regularly spanked.
• The child frequently watches television.
• The child’s parents read to him nearly every day.
To overgeneralize a bit, the first list describes things that parents are;
the second list describes things that parents do. Parents who are well
educated, successful, and healthy tend to have children who test well
in school; but it doesn’t seem to much matter whether a child is
trotted off to museums or spanked or sent to Head Start or frequently
read to or plopped in front of the television.
For parents-and parenting experts-who are obsessed with
child-rearing technique, this may be soberi9g news. The reality is that
technique looks to be highly overrated. ,/
But this is not to say that parents don’t matter. Plainly they matter a
great deal. Here is the conundrum~by the time most people pick up a
parenting book, it is fartoo late. Most of the things that matter were
decided long ago-who you are, whom you married, what kind of life
you lead. If you are smart, hardworking, well educated, well paid, and
married to someone equally fortunate, then your children are more
likely to succeed. (Nor does it hurt, in all likelihood, to be honest,
thoughtful, loving, and curious about the world.) But it isn’t so much a
matter of what you do as a parent; it’s who you are. In this respect, an
\
overbearing parent is a lot like a political candidate who believes th:Ja
money wins elections, whereas in truth, all the money in the world
can’t get a candidate elected if the voters don’t like him to start with.

I am a pre-k teacher. I placed my daughter in a new school with a new program, new technology in every classroom, new everything. Including the adminstration,which I did not know was a new principal with <3 years experience. My issues are the following:
1. She was coming home with 8-12 worksheets per day that she had already done in school,
2. she told me a teacher read a story that discussed beer and showed it
3. I watched one of her teachers repeatedly play a CD that drilled the alphabet while the children sat there and pointed to each letter ad went through the alphabet about 7 times
4. I was asked for money to join the PTA and when I called said it was NOT the national PTA, rather a fund raiser- but it was not stated in the letter.
5. One of the teachers (who was drilling the alphabet) was kind of rude to me when I had a question about the amount of worksheets.
6. The principal does not seem to know what’s going on.
Her English teacher was very understadning of my concerns and explained their schedule, daily routine, etc. The Spanish Teacher gave me an attitude and talked about her students like they were dumb- She said “These kids are way behind, its like teaching pre-k”. (of course I took offense b/c I teach pre-k) I got an impression like sheknows what she’s doing and why I question her which was later confirmed by another teacher I know who knows her.
I e-mailed the principal about the “beer” and she said she’d look into it and never got back to me. I also asked about the PTA because my daughter goes to the school, they have to let me know about workshops, fundraisers, etc., even if I don’t pay. The letter stated it was a fee, the principal stated it was a fundraiser.
Everytime I call the school, the secrtary seems to know more of what’s going on thanthe principal. My daughter knows how to read and I do not feel she should be sitting in a class where they drill the alphabet endlessly. She has known her letters, numbers, etc, and how to write her name since age 3. But on the other hand, I like the fact that she’s learning both languages and her English teacher has a real handle on things. The Spanish teacher is very experienced. She also shared confidential informaiton with me about a student in her class who I said I knew. Even if I know him, she is not supposed to tell me any of his confidential record info. So I kind of wanted to take my daughter out of the school and/or talk to the principal, but at the same time, since I am a teacher in the same district I don’t want it toseem like I’m telling her how to run her school or supervise her teachers.
Am I over reacting? or do I wait it out this year and see what happens nxt?