Kindergarten

Dan will use a pencil grip to help position his hand properly while writing. In addition, the kindergarten primer paper will guide his handwriting to fit in the lines appropriately. Reversals will be accepted because this goal is majority working on Dan’s fine motor skills and penmanship. This is an important skill and is a part of the Florida state standards. The standard L.K.1.A states, kindergarten students should be able to “print many upper and lowercase letters” (Common Core State…

I remember my kindergarten days, when most of class time consisted of learning phonics in class. I recall doing this as the whole class repeating the sounds of letters in unison. We would all go “st, st, st” as we learned how different sounds came together. The alphabet also started becoming relevant in kindergarten. A fair amount of time was spent tracing letters of the alphabet and remembering how to scribe each one. We would also do rainbow writing, where we traced the letters in all kinds of…

It may sound unbelievable and physically impossible to do but my niece, Lovely Anne Castillo, has a Facebook account of her own at barely the age of four. Therefore, the limit to how young users are on Facebook goes beyond the demographic of kindergartens despite the age eligibility the website has imposed on Facebook users needing to be 13 years of age. Lhoren Castillo, her mother, manages the account since she is already an avid Facebook user and knows how to sign up for a new account. The…

because the older they are, the more physically developed they are, experienced, and have more resources. Society is doing the same thing to their children, like the story about the hockey players but with education. Children should be held back in kindergarten because they will be more mature, are more socially and…

that fix problems but there are many of those out there, I believe there is a greater need in developing preventive programs. The second element I identified was the clear and concise development of procedures and routines. In the Gearing Up for Kindergarten, this was set right in the beginning. The procedures and routines started the moment the participants stepped into the physical space, and continued throughout the program…

Reading comprehension is one of the areas of educational research that has been around the longest. It continues to be an area of weakness for students and therefore an area of study for current examination. Several independent skills are required before students are able to successfully complete the complex process of reading comprehension. Skills listed in the research include decoding skills and word recognition, auditory processing, prior knowledge and vocabulary development (McClintock,…

12 years of school seemed to go by in the blink of an eye. I can 't believe I am already about to be graduating and pursuing the rest of my life. To me, this is truly a sad time. Not because I believe high school was the highlight of my life either. I am just heavy hearted to lose contact with some of my closest friends. Elementary through high school has been a crazy exciting time, but I realize it has been this way because of the people I share all of the memories with. I started my…

The short story “Charles” by Shirly Jackson is a story about a child named Laurie in kindergarten who fools his parents into thinking that he is the sweet, little innocent boy they raised. But as it turns out Laurie made up a story about how this other boy in his class (charles) is being bad. Lauri is actually charles, and when laurie said he stayed after school for watching charles, he was actually staying behind for himself. This story illustrates that if a person is older or bigger than…

The fifth grade Student of the Week is Colin Decker from Mrs. Estill’s class. He’s been helping around the classroom, helping others, he’s been a good leader, and he’s just been positive the whole week. Keep up the good work! (Need 3rd, 4th, kindergarten…

directions. Academically she feels he has made a little progress. Mrs. Gilet shared Adam attended therapy sessions to work on behavior but stopped because she didn't feel it was helping. Adam is a Kindergarten student attending Pottenger School since 2017. He did not attend preschool and is repeating Kindergarten. Adam has good attendance. Teacher reports,…