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Tutoring for Kindergarden
These days most schoold require a child to be able to write their name in cursive, do simple math, and read, all before 1st grade. it's nuts, but if your dd ...
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- I have an 11 yr old in 6th grade now. She is a Nov baby and we started her in K when when she was 4. It is only now that I am seeing how being "younger" than her pee...
- I would suggest that if you have any reservations about sending your child to preschool you should follow your gut instinct. You know your daughter and the situation ...
- Oh come on folks! Why rush the kid, she will only be a child once, give it a break, let her run around outside, let her play, let her develope on her own good time. ...
I Am Giving Home Schooling Some Thought...
Cursive First is a must. Really. Cursive was the first writing form in the turn- of-the-century schools, not manuscript/block letters. ...
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- First, you don't need to have a teaching credential to be a homeschool parent, unless you choose the option of being your child's private tutor. Here is a link to inf...
- E., I work for a school district and what our district does is meet with you and your child once a week, give them the same curriculum that our schools are using alon...
- I am an education specialist with South Sutter Charter School (there are also other charter schools) www.sscs.cc. I would advise looking at the website and deciding i...
Need Handwriting Help
At our school we introduce cursive in second grade and all my students love that . If your daughters teacher is ok with diciphering her handwriting until she ...
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- Handwriting has much more to do with learning to manipulate your fingers than eyesight. I just learned in one of my development and curriculum classes that an excellen...
- Have you thought about getting her the books that they have that you copy over the letters and then practice writing them yourselves? and yes you are right this is a s...
- I don't think they spend much time teaching it anymore. Both my boys, 15 and 12, can't write. Their handwriting looks like mine did in 2nd grade. I would just get l...
6 Year Old with ADD and Dyslexia
If you teach your daughter how to do cursive the right way, ... My boys are 9 and 10 and I now know how important it is to teach cursive first. ...
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- Well let me start by saying sorry this is happening to your family. Just wanted to let you know my hubby had dyslexia and the best thing you can do for her is keep wo...
- Talk to the Schenck School in Atlanta or another private school that specializes in dyslexia. Ask them for referrals to educational specialists who have expertise in t...
- Have you asked your school counselor if anyone else within your childs school has dyslexia also? I know that they are not allowed to give you names for privacy reasons...
Need Advice on Holding Son Back in School
Our son was in the 5th grade before we learned the reason he ignored the notes left for him by us or the teachers was they were in CURSIVE and he could not ...
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- Hi A., I held back both of my boys one in the first grade (suggested by the school) and one in the fourth grade (that I felt was struggling way to much with his schoo...
- A.: If you didn't have second thoughts, no matter what your decision, you wouldn't be a great parent. We are always struggling with which fork in the road is best. A...
- Hi, I have never had to keep one of my kids back, but I have worked at an elem school for 11 years. First, if you have THE OPTION of holding him back, you are lucky. H...
Mechanics of Handwriting
When is the last time you wrote a nice long cursive letter to anyone?? Email and computers rule our lives! K. Helpful? Yes | No Save This Remove This Report ...
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- We used the "Handwriting Without Tears" program with much success. http://www.hwtears.com/ Also, this pencil grip is good: http://thepencilgrip.com/
- Hi Katie, In my old preschool class, we would get the Crayola skinny crayons, peel the paper off, and break each crayon into three or four small pieces (the smaller t...
- Contact Kim Worthington at Artistic Gatherings (www.artisticgatherings.com). She is a wonderful woman and an amazing artist but she is also trained as an instructor fo...
Guetting My 5 Year Old to Write and Color.
She always failed the "palmer method" or whatever method was being taught for cursive. Holding her pen/pencil backward in her left hand makes her slant her ...
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- My daughter is also 5 and we are homeschooling. At this age, if something is considered work, they don't want to do it. I don't have this issue when it comes to scho...
- Is your son left handed? School systems tend to teach proper pencil holding, paper position, etc. for right handed folks. If your son has a lefty tendency he may be ...
- ok first i would get a new pediatrician!! i am not a medical person, but i don't think it is often that a dr should be saying a child "is just lazy!!" have you ever tr...
Eight Year Old Needing to Repeat 2Nd Grade
3rd grade becomes more challenging with the added stress of more homework and beginning cursive writing. There is a big transition between the two grades ...
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- Hi J.! When you talk to those "experts" next week I would try to learn two things: 1. Even if his ability to concentrate and learn has improved, how much catching u...
- Any time a child needs to repeat a grade, the earlier it's done the better. Kids can be vicious when they find out someone has been help back, but moving on when you ...
- J., See if your son can go to summer school or tutoring first before holding him back. If these two things are not an option, have the school provide you with some c...
My Son Has Trouble Paying Attention in School
It was a style of writing that is a half step between manuscript and cursive and they teach the kids to make their letters so that it can easily be turned ...
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- I used to use a program with a name something like Italicised writing or something similar. It was a style of writing that is a half step between manuscript and cursi...
- My son does not have ADHD. He is not hyperactive, nor does he bounce off the wall. What he does have is attention defisite disorder (ADD) he has a hard time focusing i...
- Even though your son isn't hyperactive, it sounds like he certainly has trouble "focusing" to a task at hand and that is a tell-tale sign of ADD. I would encourage yo...
Home Schooling
Wouldn't even allow him to write in cursive because the other students didn't know how. When he was accepted into the GATE program, she said there had to be ...
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- Oh my goodness. Homeschooling is so wonderful. I homeschooled my kids for 5 years. I pulled them out of public school when they were in 2nd and 4th. We ahd a blast...
- F., I have 3 children, one that is in the 1st grade and doing extrememly well in public school, then I have one in Kinder, and one in the 4th grade, both struggling gr...
- Hi F., I home schooled my son for a year in 7th grade, while working full time. It was hard to keep him current with his classmates. The school district did send a ...
