Kindergarten Reading Help

Archive for February, 2010

My “step-son” is 5 and he starts kindergarten this fall. He was in pre-school three days a week last year and hated it! We think a lot if it stemmed from his mom dropping him off and the his dad picking him up… so we started going by whoever dropped him off picked him up. Everyday he had school he would say he didn’t want to go, he hated it… stuff like that. Now he is going into kindergarten and here they have it all day. I am worred that he is going start off on the wrong foot. My BF and I are already concerned becasue he is going to be bored. He is already reading books by himself and can do simple math- pretty advanced for his age and we have been told the achool he is going to isn’t very good with advacned kids- something about the “No Child Left Behind.” Any advice for us as parents to hype him up for school and change his attitude towards it and how to survive this upcoming school year?

Hello, I am a self-taught English student. I would like to improve my English by learning from the mistakes I’ve made. Thank you all in advance.
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Dear Mrs. XX,
I have received an email from YJ’s PE teacher and I am really surprised.
YJ hasn’t brought her PE strip to her PE9 class 5 times so far.
I am sorry that I feel disappointed with my niece today.
Yet, my love for her won’t change.
She has made up one Friday session (Dec 11) since I talked to her.
She still has to make up 4 classes.
I will remind her of seeing you on Jan 15 and Jan 25 for her make-up PE classes.
YJ has to see Mr. Pxxx as you see his message below.
I hope that someone or you can come with her when seeing Mr. Pxx to help her communicate with him.
I’d appreciate if you could find someone for YJ.
Oh, I told YJ this morning that she has to see you today after school.
Mrs. xx..
YJ leaves her school agenda in her room for months, and I think this is not a good idea for a student like my niece.
I’ve advised her many times to bring it with her when she goes to school, but she leaves it home.
I don’t like to nag her, so I always talk to her nicely.
She seems to highly respect me; however, she sometimes forgets doing things that she has to do at home and the school, which I can’t help her.
I wish I were her mother, so I can lead her to have better and more effective life.
Mrs. xx..
I have been so much passionate about education entire my life since very young age.
I think it is not everything of studying hard in our life.
People often open their eyes to studying at different age.
However I believe that taking our responsibility is very important.
YJ is a lovely and good girl, but I hope that she takes her responsibility seriously as a student.
I never say study to her; if I do that, I probably go crazy.
I love her very much as my niece, which, I think, is the only thing that I can give her during her stay in Canada.
On the other hand, YJ has many good characters.
I have learned such good things from her.
She is very good at reading people’s mind and treating very young children.
She has thought me how to treat kids well.
She loves little children.
I think she will be an excellent kindergarten teacher in the future in Korea if she studies the field.
I gave her a chance to volunteer at a kindergarten near my home.
Christmas is in the corner.
I hope you enjoy wonderful Christmas holidays!
XX

Multimedia Artist/ Animator or a Creative Writer/ Poet?
Why Multimedia Artist/ Animator?
*I am really great at editing videos.
*I can draw a LOT of cartoon characters like spongebob and the fairly odd parents through hand and using the computer.
*I have been a straight A student in art since kindergarten.
*Nearly all my artworks at school were displayed at the office.
*My art teacher displayed my “African Mask” artwork at this mini art museum for kids.
Why Creative author/ poet?
*I LOVE reading books.
*I once won an award given to me by the county’s school superintendent by achieving a high score in a writing test against all other people in my grade at my school.
*I have been a straight A student in this subject since kindergarten.
*I AM A FAST READER.
*When I went to this place called Enterprise Village when I was in 5th grade (Enterprise Village is where you can work like a grown up does) my teacher selected me to be a Managing Editor at the newspaper company.
Which career is better?

My “step-son” is 5 and he starts kindergarten this fall. He was in pre-school three days a week last year and hated it! We think a lot if it stemmed from his mom dropping him off and the his dad picking him up… so we started going by whoever dropped him off picked him up. Everyday he had school he would say he didn’t want to go, he hated it… stuff like that. Now he is going into kindergarten and here they have it all day. I am worred that he is going start off on the wrong foot. My BF and I are already concerned becasue he is going to be bored. He is already reading books by himself and can do simple math- pretty advanced for his age and we have been told the achool he is going to isn’t very good with advacned kids- something about the “No Child Left Behind.” Any advice for us as parents to hype him up for school and change his attitude towards it and how to survive this upcoming school year?

I send my son to school a nice warm hearted little boy and they keep sending back a mouthy violent brat. I have had it. I am not sending him back to school. He is in kindergarten and ahead of the game anyways. His teacher doesn’t have a reading group for him (he tested at the 3rd grade level) and he has already finished the math workbook for the year (in 4 weeks). Today I was correcting him about spitting on his workbook and he poked me with the pencil (yes it broke the skin). He continually tells me he hates me and doesn’t have to listen to mommies (courtesy of a classmate), he is lying, throws toys at me, and more in addition to all the talking back. This is not how I raised him. I know some of it is just being 5 but this makes the terrible two’s look like a trip to Disneyland. Aside from the workbooks at local bookstores, is there a place to buy textbooks?

I send my son to school a nice warm hearted little boy and they keep sending back a mouthy violent brat. I have had it. I am not sending him back to school. He is in kindergarten and ahead of the game anyways. His teacher doesn’t have a reading group for him (he tested at the 3rd grade level) and he has already finished the math workbook for the year (in 4 weeks). Today I was correcting him about spitting on his workbook and he poked me with the pencil (yes it broke the skin). He continually tells me he hates me and doesn’t have to listen to mommies (courtesy of a classmate), he is lying, throws toys at me, and more in addition to all the talking back. This is not how I raised him. I know some of it is just being 5 but this makes the terrible two’s look like a trip to Disneyland. Aside from the workbooks at local bookstores, is there a place to buy textbooks?

I’ve never dealt with anything like this before. My son is extremely intelligent. He’s in kindergarten (started school at 4, is now 5) and knows all of his letter, numbers, and can read and do simple math. His teacher has been saying that he’s exhibiting ADHD behaviors and has been talking to me about the benefits of ADHD medications. I am in no hurry to force drugs on my active, but as far as I’m concerned normal, 5 year old. I think he’s bored, and she disagrees. I got his report card yesterday, and it says that he’s struggling with his “sight words” so I got the list of words out and was going through them with him and he got them all right! WTHeck? I think that she’s just impatient with him, and that she would rather have him in a trance at his desk then to deal with him.
I’m afraid to take him to the doctor because I know that they often take the side of the school. I’m throwing around the idea of homeschooling him and my other children, but I have 4 kids and I’m afraid I won’t be up to the challenge of homeschooling them all, and I won’t keep one home to watch his siblings go off to school every day. It’s a tough situation all around.
I guess I just don’t understand why he’s exhibiting these behaviors at school, and not at home!? I can get him to sit down for close to an hour when we practice reading, but she insists that she can get him to sit still for 5 minutes to color a picture. What should I do? Take him to the doctor? I am really opposed to medicating a child that I feel is a completely normal, functioning 5 year old.

I REALLY REALLY want to homeschool my kids, which are 3 & 4 right now. I thought about sending them to kindergarten and maybe a few years of elementary to let them learn the basics (reading, writing, basic math) and then taking over from there. Now, though, I really just want to teach them myself. All I get from people I know is how hard it is, and how they think I shouldn’t do it, that its just WAY too difficult and time consuming. I still want to do it though. I am starting to give up, though I don’t want to. I want to push forward and follow my hopes of homeschooling my children. Does anyone know of any curriculum that would make it easier FOR ME to keep them on track? I don’t want them to fall behind because I didn’t do something right or forgot to do something all together. I just want to homeschool without messing them up.

My daughter is in the first grade and she is 6,soon to be 7.All year long we have heard she has trouble focusing and following directions.We work with her every night and she does fine at home.Sometimes i have to repeat myself,but not always.She does not distract others or fidget.The teacher says sometimes when she ask her a question,she stares at her and then answers something totally different.Her kindergarten teacher never mentioned this to us.Her grades are satisfactory.She has only made 1 bad grade this year and that was in math.Her reading is improving.I see a big progress in her from last year.She could barely read any last year,now i think she reads good for her age.Any suggestions on what could be the problem.Could it be the teacher.Last year she loved her teacher,and talked about her all the time.She loved going to school and never wanted to miss.This year she never mentions the teacher except when she tells me she raises her hand and the teacher never calls on her.She talks about how she hates school and asks me every night if she has to go to school.I could really use some advice.

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>>Ah, yes, fan loyalty. I am a victim of it. After watching and loving the anime FLCL and Gunbuster 2 (Diebuster), I feel obligated to watch whatever GAINAX produces. I haven’t been disappointed by any of the series, so that just strengthens my loyalty. Which is why I’m watching Hanamaru Kindergarten this season. As for manga, I’m an absolute sucker for books that say “from the author/artist of [series x]!” I’ve bought so many blind buys that way…
#2. Plan on watching anything this season? Thoughts on any series you have watched?
>>I’ve watched the first episodes of Hidden God and Sora no Woto. I love them both (and not just because I’m a sucker for slice-of-life and anything by Peach-Pit). I plan to watch Dhurarara!! at some point (probably this Friday) and Katanagatari when it’s released.
#3. Adult Swim has recently made an announcement that they’ve accquired three new anime licenses and they plan to broadcast them on their network. What do you think they are, why, and how well do you think they’ll do?
>>From reading the feedback on ANN on this announcement, and from my own personal intuition, I think it’s Soul Eater, the final season of InuYasha, and FMA: Brotherhood. First, I pick Soul Eater because…well, I really just want it to be on TV. As for how well I think it’ll do, probably well for the first few airings and then, either by time slots or something else, will gain less and less viewers until it’s taken off the air. I think InuYasha is a good pick because they’ve shown all the beginning of InuYasha and it seemed to do well, so I don’t see why the last season would be any problem, at least with ratings. FMA: Brotherhood is basically the same reasoning, its predecessor did well so I think this one will too. Of course, I don’t know how well viewers will take to a basic repeat of the original FMA.
#4. FUNImation has finished their roll-out riot (a week where they announced a bunch of new licenses consecutively. This seems to be all about licensing, doesn’t it?). What titles do you wish they had announced?
>>I wish they’d licensed ToraDora, K-On, and Sayonara Zetsubou-Sensei. How these immemsely popular shows escaped licensing is beyond me (or there might be other factors preventing them from licensing it, but still…)
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>>Keyblades will be the standard weapon for any citizen. Also, all Mickey Mouse merchandise will be required to show him wearing a trenchcoat.
#6. What manga do you wish someone would make an anime of?
>>+Anima and Otomen. Both are perfectly suited to make great anime, in character designs and plot.
#7. Last question, I promise. What do you deem the most surprising anime/manga moment?
>>When we first see Rena’s demonic side in the first arc of When They Cry. Going into the book with no real knowledge of what it was about, seeing Rena contort her face into a demon’s really shocked me. And everyone else I gave the book too.
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Who is the bloke in this picture?http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/1781/wh…
Hint one: He’s a nekogami.
Hint two: The author of this series has done another manga about a supernatural bureau.
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