Parent Teacher Conferences

I'm proud to say that parent teacher conferences went very well this year.  There were a couple specific things that I wanted to mention - I figured my blog would be the best place for that!

Erin's conference was first.  She's in 5th grade now, her final year of elementary before she heads off the middle school.  Her teacher wants to make sure they are prepared, so he has been working on extra things with them...such as PowerPoint.  (for those who don't know...it's a computer program used for giving presentations)  So for Erin's conference, she made a Power Point presentation of her report card and various related materials, and she had to present to us her strengths, weaknesses, grades, goals, ways to improve, etc.  I think if I had to give my parents a presentation in front of my teacher when I was 10 years old I would have wanted to shrivel up and die!!!  We were extremely proud for the great job she did presenting.  Her grades were pretty good too...too bad she's like her Mom and has Social Studies as a weak spot.  (BORING)  We're working on it though.  :)

I really wasn't sure what to expect at Erica's conference.  I should have known...she is doing great.  She's one of the oldest in the class of course, having turned 6 the 3rd week of school.  She has already met all the benchmarks that need met to enter first grade, so the rest of the year should be interesting.  She has her working in some higher level books for guided reading so she is still challenged.  Apparently in the first 2 months of school, Erica has been pretty quiet (I swear, that's what the teacher said, lol) - so when the teacher tested the kids individually at quarter-end time and found that Erica was excelling in so many things, she said this, "Erica is like the little flower who I didn't even realize I had, and she grew and bloomed without me even noticing."  Wasn't that sweet?  But because she gets bored easily...she does need to focus on doing what she's supposed to be doing and listening better.

Also, this week at school Erica had a substitute teacher...and it was the teacher who had taught Kindergarten for 25 years and retired just a couple years ago.  When I passed them in the hall at school, she said, "Oh, are you Erica's Mom?  She just read a book to me - and - WOW."  So that made me a proud Mom.  

And last was Emily's conference.  Typical Emily:  neat, tidy, polite, well-behaved, always does her best, sweet Emily.  She had an awesome report card!  If she got letter grades they would have been all A's.

We are so proud of all of them!