A month or so ago I went to Preston's kindergarten orientation. I must admit the whole thing made me pretty weepy. Weepy and a little stressed.
Weepy because the whole thing feels like the beginning of the end. As the principal was waxing on about how her children were all grown I couldn't help but burst into tears. I don't want my baby to grow up!
And stressed because when I inquired about what they like the kids to know before they start the teachers told me that most kids know how to write their name, know their alphabet (by sight and how to write them) and their numbers.
We'd already been working on Preston's name but we are so not ready with the alphabet. So here we are. Crunch time. We have 27 days until my due date. If I go full term we should make it through the alphabet at least once. I figure when baby comes all bets are off so we're going for it now.
I plastered the house in Aa's
We colored "apes" and wrote our capital and lower case A's.
Phew. One down 25 to go.
Oh, and Wyatt wanted me to take a picture of him.
"Take picture of Wy-wy?"
And as a sweet surprise Nate showed up after work with a gift for me. :) My other ring doesn't fit right now so he got me a new one. (Gotta love craigslist!)
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Ugh... The dreaded "What your kids should know already." This stresses me out, and we haven't even had any sort of kindergarten orientation yet! Camryn knows how to recognize her name. She knows most if not all her letters and numbers. But writing?! I. Cannot. Get. That. Kid. To. Try. She KNOWS I want her to and absolutely refuses!!! Might I confess I'm looking forward to school in hopes peer pressure and the teacher's own efforts will get her to do things I cannot make happen on my own?
P.S. Love the ring! That was sweet of Nathan. It's hard to feel lovely when nothing seems to fit. I'm back in (most of) my regular clothes now, but for a long while I wanted to cry when it came time to get dressed. Jewelry and shoes not fitting are the ultimate betrayal!
You are amazing! I think that putting the letters up and having him color over things is a great way to help him get the idea. But don't get too stressed; virtually every kid learns to read at some point (always on their schedule, not yours) and pushing too hard can just make them hate the process. Reading to them and with them is the best way to make them excited to learn how to read.
I used the same Aa writing sheet when I taught kindergarten! I used it for what's called "Rainbow Writing" Give him a few different color markers and have him write Aa inside of the Aa block letters over and over again in the different colors. It makes a cute rainbow look, and it gives him the repetition/practice of writing the letter! You can do it with all the letters!
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