Kindergarten Reading Help

Archive for July, 2010

Reality
As I sat in my room and scrolled though the pictures of me and my family from our Florida vacation that we had took during the summer. The week in Florida had flown by. Now back in the mist of all the chaos with the start of school, my sisters pulling their usual stunts, my mom freaking out about my youngest brother starting kindergarten, that week with no worries it was forever ago. But as I scrolled though the pictures I came across one of me and my sisters. The three of us smiling our identical smiles.
If a stranger had looked at this picture they would have said that me and my sisters are identical. Which is true we are, we are identical triplets. But yet that is only on the outside, on the inside we are different people.
Amber is the oldest. She’s the party girl. The sister who sneaks in at 2 in the morning drunk, high, or both. She was reckless and dangerous with her friends, but she knew how to walk the walk and talk the talk in front of our parents and others parents as well. She was a whole fifteen minutes older than Amethyst and seven minutes older than me.
Amethyst was the youngest. She is the popular one. The sister that is a total ***** at school but a sweetheart at home. She is a cheerleader, on all the committees and not to mention she is dating the quarterback on the football team. She might be the youngest but she also knows how to party.
Then there is me. Jade the middle triplet. I’m the innocent one. I don’t go to parties, I’ve never drank, smoked, or had sex. I pay attention in church, I’ve only dated a few boys all who my parents approved of. I was a overly safe driver, I never snuck out. I’ve never even rolled someone’s house. I was the one who while my parents hovered over my sisters and brother they barely paid attention to me cause they knew that I wouldn’t get in trouble or do something bad.
But on the outside me and my sisters are identical. I looked at the picture for a little while. Or at least until someone knocked on my bedroom door.
“Who is it?” I asked as I stuck the camera on my bedside table.
“Its Amber,” My sister said though the door, “Can I come in?”
“Sure,” As she entered I was shocked to see she was wearing jeans and a short shelve shirt- I was a little annoyed to notice that it was my shirt- and not her normal skimpy dresses or reveling shirts.
“What do you want?” I asked her as she came and sat on my bed next to me. She looked different somehow I couldn’t put my finger on it, but there was definitely something off about her. I started to study her but then she started talking.
“I wanna talk,” She said. This had to be some other Amber than the one that lived to two feet down the hall from me. Amber never wanted to talk, she was a fabulous person, but she never ever wanted to talk. If there was something wrong her advise was “Get drunk or something, go to a party.”
“What do you want to talk about?” I asked her. She gave me a look it made me kind of nervous. Because even thought I’ve lived with her my entire life, if always felt she was better than me. It was like when you walked by the popular crowd and they gave you a once over and decided you weren’t cool enough and laughed. Like she was better at this whole being sixteen thing.
“You,” She said, shocking me to an even further expectant.
“Why do you want to talk about me?” I asked her.
This is the very beging whould you keep reading?
Its a teen love story. Kinda.
And i know its shaky but its the being i just wrote it.

Okay… the school succeeded in pissing me off this morning. When I dropped Elijah off at his school this morning his 1:1 aid told me she was a little upset that all the kindergarteners at the K-2 school up the hill went on a field trip yesterday to an animal farm. She did not get notified of this trip and neither did I. She has spoken to the SPED director several times about including Elijah in trips, performances, etc. with his peers. Is this legal? From my understanding it seems that it might be a violation of Section 504 because he was excluded do to his placement which is a result of his disabilities (PDD-NOS, SPD, BP)…. The school district only had one substantially seperate classroom in the whole district which is at his current school of 3-4th graders. We told the SPED director that we wanted him included in activities with his peers from kindergarten. When his aid was talking about it this morning Elijah mentioned how he would have petted the animals like this… showed with a gentle hand, and how he would have fed the baby sheep it’s bottle. He looked sad too that he was excluded.
His aid also told me that the rest of the kindergarteners are having a Memorial Day Program which she did not get informed about. They all started practicing thier songs last month, but he did not have a chance to. I don’t even think that the plan was to include Elijah, but his 1:1 aid is going to get a couple songs that they are singing, teach him them, and bring him any ways.
Another thing the kindergarteners have their own computer based reading program called Lexia that his aid is doing with him… yes his aid… not the SPED teacher. She is getting some good teaching experience because it seems that she is his unofficial teacher. Any ways the teachers, assistants, etc. got a three day training on this program which is new a couple weeks ago. She did not get informed of the training, so she did not go until the second day when she found out from word of mouth, not from a supervisor, that it was going on. So great not only is my son excluded from field trips, but his aid is being denied the right training do to his placement as well….
I guess I should look on the bright side… at least Elijah is getting to go on a field trip on a Trolly Tour with the 3-4th graders that I am chaperoning him on. When they told me about the trip they were telling me that they did not know if maybe I wanted to drive the 90+ miles and meet them there because he might not do good on the bus. No thank you! I told them that I would go and he would be fine if we get to sit up front where he won’t be able to see all the other kids.
I already called the SPED director but he was not in his office so I left messages. Later this afternoon I will call the SPED director back. I also wrote letters which I am going to bring to the SPED director and Superintendent’s offices which state my concerns. I felt like going down to the SPED director’s office and waiting for him to return but that might be unprofessional.
Just a reminder: his placement is in the 3rd-4th grade school. The kindergarteners go to the K-2 school which is up the hill a few feet away. The only substantially separate class our school district has is the class Elijah is in at the 3-4th grade school.

im so scared i wont get into a college i want to go to.
my grades are 85-89 i think its a 3.3 or 3.4 gpa.
my sat scores are very bad. i only took it once tho i will be taking it 2 more times, they are: critical reading 400, math 520, and writting 470. i already took a course for the sat so i dont know what else to do.
i am involved in 2 clubs at my school AFS( american feild service) and yearbook club. outside of school i volunteer at a hospital, kindergarten school, and i am involved in youth court ( its real court cases for kids 15 and under and we are the defense, judge ext.) i have like 300 hours all together.
One more thing is i want to major in Premed, i want to be a doctor or some sort lol
the schools i want to go to are:
University of Conneticuit- i want to go here the most!!!!
Northeastern University
Boston University
SUNY Albany
University of Massachusettes (amherst)
University of New Hampshire
University of Vermont
University of Maryland
Villanova
Rutgers
Syracuse University
SUNY Buffalo
University of Delaware
University of Pittsburg
University of Virginia
University of Rhode Island ( i dont really even know what this is but my mom says i’ll get into it maybe)
University of Long Island ( im not sure if this is good either)
i know these are prob all reach schools but idk what to do. i love big schools. i want to swim in college ( im not good enough for a scholarship tho, and im not on a team any more) i used to be on a team in middle school but my high school doesnt have a swim team.
any opinions of me getting into these schools!!!
or any other schools i should try
thank you sooo much!!

I have been reading quite a number of posts associated with President Elect Obama and his wife. A central theme is affirmative action. I have done quite an enormous amount of research on affirmative action and I truly think that out of ignorance or the need to minimize the success and importance of a group of people, many in society truly do not understand the nature of affirmative action (AA). AA was created to give QUALIFIED minorities equal access and equal opportunity. Research clearly shows there is a disparity as related to minorities and their caucasian counterparts as related to test scores, opportunities etc. The research doesn’t lie. Yet and still I see statements that Barack and Michelle achieved their successes because of AA. No, they achieved their successes because they are intelligent, hardworking, multitalented individuals. There were no handouts. A history of higher education show that desegration was a huge challenge in our nation. Believe me, there are no unqualified minorities out there who are barely passing receiving anything due to AA. However those of us who are the best and the brightest (including yours truly because I kicked butt in the classroom- kindergarten through my current doctoral program and in my profession) wanted equal opportunity and consideration. If you know the history of our great United States you know that the country has not been fair and equitable to minorities especially as related to education and hiring practices. I am where I am today because I am intelligent, hardworking, forwardthinking, fair, a darn good strategist, and because I had parents who told me that the only way I would rise above racism is to educate myself as if my life depended on it.