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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]W cluster school. No spelling words, no quizzes. Many kids including my own have horrendous handwriting. Teachers say not to worry.

There is a lot of writing in the new curriculum but the expectations for what the kids produce is very low. You could write, The cat jumped. It was fun. and misspell everything and the teacher would probably be thrilled.[/quote]
Is this for a 1st grader?  I agree with the teacher, don't worry.   The expectations for a 1st grader should be low.  Many of them are still 6.

I had a similar issue to you, PP.  For the longest time, I thought my then 1st grader's work was terrible because, like your's, I could barely read the writing, simple misspelled words, short sentences that sometimes made no sense to me, etc..., but was always told by the teacher that DC was doing really well.  I finally realized -- what do I know about what is appropriate writing for a 6 yr old.  I'm not a teacher. I've only been exposed to one 6 yr old's writing, not several hundreds like the teacher has.  This DC is now in HGC, and gets ESs all the time in writing.

So, I've learned to relax more with DC#2 now in 2nd.[/quote]

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