School

So this week we had our first parent teacher conference with both the big kids!  I could not wait to hear what their teachers were going to tell us.  Not just the positive but the things I can do to help them from home.

Hailey was the first one up. Of course her teacher adores her.  She is such a little helper.  She said she wished she had 20 more of her in the class.  She basically said she had a rough class.  Hailey tells me that her teacher needs some quiet time sometimes.  I can tell from Hailey that she is having to disciplined the kids a lot.  I feel for the kinder teachers.  Its the first year for the kids and not all parents teach there kids to respect others/adults. Any who she says that my Hailey is a great help and keeps others on there toes and sometimes tells others when they arent listening to instructions to listen or they're gonna get in trouble.  As far as things to work on.  She is right on spot of where she needs to be and we can help with some activities to ensure her knowing her ABC upper and lower and the sounds.  The meeting with her teacher was short and sweet.

Now to my Ryu. He has two teachers they both were present for the conference.  Im glad they did it together I had imagined having to wait to see both.  I cant even tell you in words how happy I was to hear the things they had to say.  They both agreed that every year they have at least one student they will not forget and they both feel like Ryu will be one student they wont forget.  They said that Ryu will stand up for himself and others but not to think he is picked on he has plenty of friends.  That at first they had to figure out how to work with him and his creativity side.  He loves to build things, draw and even will be reading in class when its not time too.  They have figured away to still let him do this plus what he is suppose to do.  She said that they tell him that if he does it correctly that he has 2 minutes free time afterwards that he can draw, read, ect.  His reading teacher told us that he is right where he needs to be with reading and in fact that she was going to move him to a group of above level reading. (AWESOME!)  She said you can definitely tell that we are working on reading at home.  That his only draw back with the reading area is..(here is something we will work on at home!) That when they ask him what he read he can verbal explain in great detail about it but when he comes to writing it down he is not the best at it.  His math/science teacher says he is doing great in those area.  That in math he is one of the few ahead of the game.

A few stories they shared of Ryu.

One of the kids in his class told Ryu he should be a lawyer.  That the reasoning of thinking this was because he stands his ground.  He lets others know when they arent doing right.  Another story, they have a behavior chart sent home daily.  They have 3 levels of positive.  good day, great day, and awesome day! He has usually got the middle and a few awesome days.  Last week he was aiming to get all Awesome Days.  (which he did)  One day the teacher was putting the great day down and Ryu tells her nooooO!  And gets her the white out for her to put awesome day.  She did say that she actually meant to put that one day as awesome anyways for him.

Im one proud mother.  My children strive to do there best and im proud of my babies for working so hard to get where they are right now.