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The random things that come out of their heads. Focus and concentration are two of the difficult things we teach.
Commented Sep 18, 2011 on Secret Thoughts at Kindergarten Today
Secret Thoughts
I often wonder why my students don’t understand instructions or don’t follow along during lessons. Yesterday I caught a glimpse of what is going on with some of them! Each week we make a little book about 3”x4” that shows our letter of the week and five words (with pictures) to “read” to me and ...
Someone gave this to us at our kindergarten inservice a week ago:
If I can think it, I can say it.
If I can say it, I can write it.
If I can write it, I can read it.
I don't know that I've ever seen it put quite like that before. We are putting it up on the wall in our room.
Commented Jan 23, 2010 on Write about a frog. at Kindergarten Today
Write about a frog.
My students have been writing sentences and little stories for quite some time. Our program emphasizes writing as one of the key components of a good language and reading curriculum. For the past two weeks we have also been using a word bank for our writing. So…yesterday I asked them to “write a...
I would count some of those, maybe not a year or two ago, but I would now. If the intent is to know what they know, then I count it. The thing I hate the most about ISF is that my second language kids have to hold up to four unfamilar words in their heads AND remember the initial sounds. MOST people couldn't do it in a foreign language. The intent is, can they I.D. the initial sound and differentiate.
Commented Jan 22, 2010 on Testing Kindergartners at Kindergarten Today
Testing Kindergartners
We recently finished some standardized testing and this is proof that no test created by an adult will ever truly measure the intellect and creativity of a five year old: Test- Word Usage -Student is supposed to listen to the word spoken by the teacher and then use it in a sentence. Answers are ...
Yeah! DIBELS! at the beginning of the year! I just stuck a smiley face sticker on top of that first "G" and told the kids to put their finger in the sticker, because that was where we would start, we only count their correct answers anyway. And that stupid "G" shuts some kids down.
Commented Sep 13, 2009 on Testing the Alphabet at Kindergarten Today
Testing the Alphabet
In a few weeks I’m going to give my students a standardized test that includes a section of timed, random alphabet recognition. It is very, very important that you notice the word timed. The goal of the test is for the student to recognize as many letters as possible in one minute. The letters ...
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