Question about 1st Graders

Can't help you because I home school. If I were you I'd definitely talk to the teacher about whats expected of her class so you can help your daughter to succeed.

My son was in 1st grade last year and I was shocked at what they expected them to be able to do! She should be able to sound them out on her own! Be patient!

she will sound it out.. but I dont think she understands shes making a word..b/c after she'll just guess what the word is.. its driving me bonkers

My son is also just starting first grade. He brought home a list to study for spelling words. the words were cat,ham, mat,hat, the, is and the challenge word was school.
I read the note and asked him and he could spell all but school.
Not much help i know.
Here is a link to a printable PDF from the state gov website it's a booklet on grade level expectations one for English and one for Math.
http://www.michigan.gov/documents/ELA_1_141463_7.pdf (english)
http://www.michigan.gov/documents/1st_grade_Math_141480_7.pdf (math)
There are more for different grades too.
HTH
Cindi

My daughter could not read in first grade...

Thanks Cindi!

This is very stressful. Last year amazed me too..what they did in kindergarten.. when i was in kindergarten (23 years ago) i remember playing and learning the alphabet lol

dont know but my daughter had a list of words she had to be able to spell, it was bigger than all the words i can spell corectly if i put them onto a list lol

as you can tell im sure

hehe

man and her teacher last year didnt help much

she mustve put a word for each letter sound.. so now for R for some reason she says vroom vroom..and for C she does cat..that is not helping for trying to read a word

Do they do the Zoo animal alphabet curriculum??

I remember in kindergarten many moons ago all we had to do was go 1/2 a day , learn to share and NOT eat the paste and we were golden! HAve times changed or what??

My daughter came out of kindergarten being able to read at a 3rd grade level, but my son is just reading the simple grade level books going into 1st.

Here is a link for the social studies http://www.michigan.gov/documents/mde/KindergartenSSGLCE_229664_7.pdf

and Science http://www.michigan.gov/documents/mde/K-Science_COMPLETE_12-10-07_218315_7.pdf

Also, for kindergarten in MI

my 2 doesnt have a clue..they know most of the letter sounds to a point.. but i dont think they know all they should

what is the Zoo animal alphabet curriculum

Here is a link http://zoophonics.com/zoophonics.html

Our school starts teaching it in pre K and it seems to work really well, my kids have really
clicked with it.

Thanks!

We have those leapfrog dvds.. i think im gona have to play those a lot more..maybe that will help?

Really don't sweat it!
Just repetition, talk to them all the time ask them questions etc.
After my DD( she is a genious LOL) I was worried about my son going into K last year, he is very smart, but not nearly as motivated towards school as his sister.
So i kept close contact with his teacher and all that jazz and all the while she is telling me he is doing great , but ALL i can see is he is NO where NEAR where his sister was at that time. (never told him any of that of course)
He never made any effort to read, whenever i tried to get him to do it he had no interest, but yet the teacher was saying NO NO he's doing good.
BUt, anyway, the school year ended and he "passed with flying colors" but yet all i seen was this kid who wanted to play video games and play outside an showed no signs of being ANY different academically than he had at the beginning of the school year. So ya know i'm a mom fretting and worrying. We had VBS in August and the kids went the first day, but then my car broke and they missed the next 3 days, and finally made it back on the last day of the bog program.
I told them it was fine for my kids to sit out and they are like no no problems they are ready!
I swear to you i cried like a baby when he stood up and PERFECTLY read 4 sentences from the back of his que card! Then sat back down like it was NOTHING!
When he came over to me after the skit and i said "ZACH you can read??" he say s "well YEAH i did GRADUATE kindergarten!

OK So moral of my story, i dunno i think it got so long i forgot LOL it really did have one when i started HONEST.....

i suffer from Kid induced AADD

that is great he did good.. :) I would've cried too! Like ive told ya.. I suffer from "twin brain" so i know how ya feel hehe

Yeah they get get so much more than we realize, i think that was my point!
LOL

lol- yeah my oldest (also 1st grade) surprises me how much he knows all the time... but in school they dont see it..b/c of his speech holding him back

Gilly just started 1st grade, and has the same thing (or will starting next week). We're supposed to have them read us teh words- I'm guessing they go over them in school, but if she can't read them, I have no qualms with helping her sound them out now. We've been working on sound-spelling over the past month or so here at home- she discovered YouTube, and keeps asking me how to spell stuff so she can look up videos.

For sound spelling, if the word is spelled like it sounds, just say the word, then ask if they would know what letter it starts with. Then, slow the word down, sounding out just the first letter, then the first 2 together, etc.

For instance, she wanted to spell Yoshi, so to sound-spell it, I said the whole word slowly "Yooooossssshhhhhiiiiii", then when she said "Y", I asked about the next, and started sounding it with just Yoooooooo, until she got O, etc.

Hope that helps!

When I was in first grade I was able to read, they taught us in 5 year old kindergarten and by the time we were in first grade we were reading short kids stories and what not. Just be patient and work with them lots.

yeah i will...thanks

it's crazy they want kids to add in kindergarden!