Anonymous
09/28/2024 18:49
Subject: Does your kindergartner have spelling tests?
What school is this? Does not sound appropriate at all.
Anonymous
09/28/2024 14:40
Subject: Does your kindergartner have spelling tests?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:No, but I wish they'd do something to challenge my kindergartener as she's an early reader and not a all challenged at school.
What is this thing about being challenged? Kindergarten is a lot more than reading. Plus at this age they read books according to their ability so it doesn’t matter what reading level any of them are.
People yammering about how their kindergarteners are not challenged because they read Harry Potter are ridiculous.
I have a Kindergartener who's ahead on reading and we also can also read Harry Potter or books about the solar system at home. It wouldn't make sense to set the curriculum for 19 kids to one kid's level.
Anonymous
09/28/2024 14:33
Subject: Does your kindergartner have spelling tests?
Not in K, but yes to 1st grade.
Anonymous
09/28/2024 14:31
Subject: Does your kindergartner have spelling tests?
Anonymous wrote:No, but I wish they'd do something to challenge my kindergartener as she's an early reader and not a all challenged at school.
What is this thing about being challenged? Kindergarten is a lot more than reading. Plus at this age they read books according to their ability so it doesn’t matter what reading level any of them are.
People yammering about how their kindergarteners are not challenged because they read Harry Potter are ridiculous.
Anonymous
09/28/2024 14:30
Subject: Does your kindergartner have spelling tests?
My kindergartener at FCPS is not having spelling tests. Giving zeros for case? That seems way out of the norm.
This just seems like a way to demoralize kids just as they're starting to learn. You can easily track a kid's progress without making them feel nervous about making mistakes.
This just seems like a way to demoralize kids just as they're starting to learn. You can easily track a kid's progress without making them feel nervous about making mistakes.
Anonymous
09/28/2024 14:30
Subject: Does your kindergartner have spelling tests?
No but my first grader does.
Anonymous
09/28/2024 14:26
Subject: Does your kindergartner have spelling tests?
That’s not what the top elementary schools are doing.
Anonymous
09/28/2024 14:25
Subject: Does your kindergartner have spelling tests?
K teacher and this is appropriate. With our orton gillingham program, we do weekly spelling assessments but it's mostly to see where they are and if they're making progress learning the letters and sounds.
Anonymous
09/28/2024 09:52
Subject: Does your kindergartner have spelling tests?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Spelling us one thing but the capitalization part is off. Kids are just learning to write letters at all. Asking A instead of a is not spelling.
So when should kids learn to use the correct letter case?
Once they are completely competent at actually writing their letters.