The kindergarten level is no longer what you and I remember it as. Coloring, Dress-ups, ABC's and 123's. It's now the first grade level. These children are learning to read and write sentences.
August Part 1
3 years ago
Sunday, February 22, 2009
The dreaded Friday Spelling Tests
Sierra is currently 5 years old and is in kindergarten. Each week she is given 5 spelling words to learn and practice. Every Friday she has a spelling test on these words. This particular week her words were, "must, hog, few, that, and was." Not all words that are easy to sound out either. We were thrilled to find out Sierra scored a 4 out of 5 on this spelling test. One of her best ones yet! I was begining to think she may have test anxiety. Every Thursday night, I hear the excuses of why she shouldn't have to go to school on spelling test day. Once she even used the fact she thought it was to foggy to drive to school," it's just to dangerous mom!" I think she is finally understanding the concept along with lots of games and songs we've made up at home we are finally seeing some progress and excitement on her part. For this job well done we took her and the rest of the family to see a movie of her choice. She chose to see Tale of Despereaux.
The kindergarten level is no longer what you and I remember it as. Coloring, Dress-ups, ABC's and 123's. It's now the first grade level. These children are learning to read and write sentences.
The kindergarten level is no longer what you and I remember it as. Coloring, Dress-ups, ABC's and 123's. It's now the first grade level. These children are learning to read and write sentences.
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Awesome job on your spelling test, Sierra! We're so proud of how well you did on your paper. It's a paper worth keeping for a scrapbook page!
Isn't it SO fun to see the handwriting! Be sure to keep a few so you can see how it progresses! That's great that it is finally clicking for her!
You are right about kindergarten being more advanced now than it was for us. A few weeks ago, Lauren came home and told me she was learning how to tell time on an "analog clock." I was like, "What the heck is an analog clock?!"
Oh, yeah, it's just a regular non-digital clock.
Big word for a five year old! (And a thirty year old too, apparently!)
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