The school year is just beginning and Tanner is starting his very informal kindergarden at home. I figure we can get through K-garden goals through play and start a formal first grade next September. Here are a few goals but for those of you with recently graduated kindergardeners, I would appreciate your input.<\/p>\n
1. Know all his letters and their sounds (Done)
\n2. Be able to write all his letters
\n3. Be able to read and spell at least three letter words
\n4. Count to 100
\n5. Know all his colors (done)
\n6. Basic Math (single column addition and subtraction)<\/p>\n
If we can get through those 6 goals through play before starting first grade, I think we’ll be in good shape.<\/p>\n
I am a member of a preemie forum and I read a recommendation on there a couple of weeks ago about Leap Frog’s Letter Factory DVD. I decided to purchase it and it worked WONDERS! Tanner has wanted to watch it everyday and within 3 days TANNER KNEW THE SOUNDS OF EVERY LETTER! Jim and I couldn’t believe it when we quizzed him last night and he knew them all. While I am typing this he is saying “Mommy you know what letter starts with pink…pppppp….and also popcorn”. Ty knows the phonetic sounds of at least 4 letters as well and most of his alphabet.<\/p>\n
We had been sitting down going through some phonic sounds using flash cards but this DVD accomplished my work exponentially faster:). Thought you might like to invest in that! I’ll be off to buy more DVD’s in this series soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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