Parent Information
Many of you observe the differences in people every day. Understanding and using those differences make teaching and parenting easier. Thank goodness someone put this into a graphic! Hopefully you will find it a useful reminder as I did.
Buddies
You may wonder why we have buddies in second grade and kindergarten. There are a many of reasons from improving attitudes toward school, other students as learners and humans in general all the way to their feelings about themselves. What I appreciate most as an educator is communicated well in this image. So often education is so focused on feeding that cognitive domain the affective is left to starve. So, keeping things balanced is always the healthiest choice.
Why Can't I Skip Reading Tonight?
Our class would like to support Mrs. Nelson's efforts with free book picks and bonus points!See her blog at http://mrsnelsonsfirstgrade.weebly.com/mrs-nelsons-blog.html
Link to State Curriculumn by Grade Level
http://www.michigan.gov/mde/0,4615,7-140-28753_33232---,00.html
Everyone can use a little help from their friends...
Reading Practice and TV? YES!!
Yes. Turn off the volume and the close captioning on!
Helping Raise Responsible Kids Since 1977™
Love and Logic® provides simple and practical techniques to help parents with kids of all ages:
Raise responsible kids
Have more fun in their role
Easily and immediately (first use) change their children's behavior
Learning Difficulties
How Lois Geer responded to her son's reading problem
Q: For other parents who may be going through the same thing, or maybe just beginning this journey, what lessons have you learned?
A: [Parents] have to get involved. They have to speak up. They have to be active at school.
They have to make their child's teachers their best friends. They have to
empower their child, but also empower themselves -- to know that it's okay to
ask for help; and when the first five people you ask aren't able to help you,
know that there are still other options out there.
Q: Is there something you would have done differently?
A: I think I was quite hesitant to ask for help. I
thought it was some thing that as a parent I should be able to take care of. And
you learn really quick that you can't.
Q: One word of advice?
A: Be there with your children. You know, go through their book bags, know what they're
doing. Have open communications with the teachers. But not just the teacher [of]
the child; the supportive folks in the school. Sometimes the librarian is so
important because she'll tell you things, or she'll say what books your child
might be looking at. So, you run out and you buy all those books. Who cares if
they're all army books? If Nathan will read them, I think that's great.
Q: Nathan is going into the fifth grade, now, and scored well on the end of year test.
A: [Yes,] the positive aspects of Nathan, his positive characteristics,
his ability to verbalize himself, his keen memory, his attention to detail in a
very paradoxical way scored him the highest score on the end-of-year writing
test. That's success.
Reading Practice and TV? YES!!
Yes. Turn off the volume and the close captioning on!
Helping Raise Responsible Kids Since 1977™
Love and Logic® provides simple and practical techniques to help parents with kids of all ages:
Raise responsible kids
Have more fun in their role
Easily and immediately (first use) change their children's behavior
Learning Difficulties
How Lois Geer responded to her son's reading problem
Q: For other parents who may be going through the same thing, or maybe just beginning this journey, what lessons have you learned?
A: [Parents] have to get involved. They have to speak up. They have to be active at school.
They have to make their child's teachers their best friends. They have to
empower their child, but also empower themselves -- to know that it's okay to
ask for help; and when the first five people you ask aren't able to help you,
know that there are still other options out there.
Q: Is there something you would have done differently?
A: I think I was quite hesitant to ask for help. I
thought it was some thing that as a parent I should be able to take care of. And
you learn really quick that you can't.
Q: One word of advice?
A: Be there with your children. You know, go through their book bags, know what they're
doing. Have open communications with the teachers. But not just the teacher [of]
the child; the supportive folks in the school. Sometimes the librarian is so
important because she'll tell you things, or she'll say what books your child
might be looking at. So, you run out and you buy all those books. Who cares if
they're all army books? If Nathan will read them, I think that's great.
Q: Nathan is going into the fifth grade, now, and scored well on the end of year test.
A: [Yes,] the positive aspects of Nathan, his positive characteristics,
his ability to verbalize himself, his keen memory, his attention to detail in a
very paradoxical way scored him the highest score on the end-of-year writing
test. That's success.