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@Mamaof2: yes, a large public district. Several of the other area districts have done the same. I guess the subs were dropping like flies, too.

I just hope winter doesn't try to make a comeback -- they will cancel class here for an inch of snow, too. Right now we have a PT nanny so we're covered on childcare, but that might not be the case next year. No family to pick up the slack either. Ugh.

@Mrs. Yoyo: Ugh, those are all going around here, too. They Clorox-bombed a nearby elementary school this past weekend after a nasty Norovirus outbreak. And flu and strep have hit DD2's preschool this week. DD1 was home sick yesterday, thankfully just with a bad cold. I hope your son's school reopens soon!

@FLnative12: Just checking, I think you meant to post this to entering K 2017 board.

Holy moly. They just called off for the rest of the week! I mean, I guess I'm glad they are taking this seriously, but wow. I feel bad for everyone who is scrambling for child care right now.

I was actually home with DD yesterday because on Tuesday she was sent home sick for the first time. She had diarrhea twice poor thing. She turned out fine but she has trouble holding it if she has an upset belly.

But on the bright side, baby sister stayed home with us too and she took a good 2 hour morning nap (which she needs because she doesn't do that at daycare). In that time I got to sit and do some of the Reading Comprehension passages that were recommended to me on the other thread. She really impressed me! I downloaded a bunch from Teachers Pay Teachers that were free and will totally invest in some more later on. I may also contact her teacher about seeing if she can send any more home that she may have. The quick 3 sentences were super easy. We also got to practice her spelling/sight words for her test this week.

@T.H.O.U.: Wow, spelling tests already?? DD's class has an envelope of sight words they keep in their binder and they are supposed to practice reading, writing, and spelling them at home but they are not tested on them. That's a lot of pressure, for kindergarten, I think.

For everyone else, do your kids have spelling tests?

@looch: snow day here too

I never thought to work on spelling. I'll need to do that with our sight words. When LO wants to write, I encourage her to try without having me spell every word. I'll correct her after.

@Pancakes: they have "dictation" where the teacher reads the words and they spell them. They just started doing it a week or two ago. So far it has only been 4-5 words at a time. I think that's a big part of learning French grammar and as kids get older they do a lot of dictation for whole sentences and longer texts.

It's interesting to hear about site words. I don't think my kid really learns site words, in any case, there is no site word list, but he is definitely learning phonics. But I guess that's a huge difference between French and English. Once you know the rules in French, you can be pretty sure about most pronunciations whereas there are a lot more exceptions in English.

Snow day here too! 3 kids home.

We also have sight word lists and they have spelling tests on them. Every list has 25 words and as soon as they master one they are given the next one.

Checking back in. Kiddo is now exceeding expectations in reading, which is great. And doing fine with math and writing, though I still think his handwriting has a long way to go.

Unsurprisingly, he needs to work on the maturity-related things (listening, managing his stuff, etc.) Ah, the plight of the summer-birthday kindergarten boy.

@MamaG: Spacing can be so tricky. I think he's finally getting it but for awhile it was like he was starting words either miles apart or right on top of each other -- no happy medium.

Our challenge is numbers right now. He keeps writing a few of them backward like half the time. Not sure what the mental block is there, especially since he often does it on worksheets where he has examples to look at.

@Mrs. Yoyo: Oh goodness, penmanship skills are so painful to me. LO has lots of issues in this area and I'm very impatient. She has become very sloppy in her letter formation and it makes me batty. We have backwards numbers too.

We were working on a daily exercise of just writing the alphabet upper case and lower case. We'd note the ones that were incorrect at the end. Write them for her correctly and ask her to practice them a few times. We should probably do the same with numbers.

@Pancakes: I expect a reply within 24 hours but usually its the same day

We seem to be going through a sleep transition. She is having a harder time getting to sleep at night and waking on her own in the morning. What hours are your kids sleeping during the week?