Parent Teacher Conferences

Tonight we had the Parent/Teacher Conferences for Lexie, Joseph, & Andrew. Never before have we had all 3 of them set up in a row & it was  really nice to be able to get it all done in one night. Wow, what a change from going at least twice for it.

Lexie's was first. It went really well. She's doing amazing with her reading and math-not shocked one bit about that. She always has her nose in a book! (Which isn't necessarily a bad thing.) She is blessed with an awesome teacher! We love Mrs. Freeman and so grateful that she loves Alexis. She's doing awesome in Math, Science, Writing...everything! She's so helpful to others in class and a great example. I could not be more thrilled with the progress and hard work Lexie puts into school. The only area Mrs. Freeman said she could work on is penmanship. Not a big surprise, so Lex is going to focus on taking her time more while writing and being neat all of the time.

Next we had Andrew's. It's nice that the first thing she said (reiterating what she told me a month ago) that we made the right choice to put Andrew in Kindergarten & not hold him. She said he's at the top of the class & his writing is awesome. That was nice to hear. Sometimes I still think about having him repeat Kindergarten, but those thoughts don't come as often anymore. He has friends, chooses the right in class, is a good example and is doing awesome academically. I'm so grateful for Mrs. Winkler who loves him (even though he's different than Joseph) and sees him for who he is and wants to celebrate his talents. That's huge for me. We do need to help him not talk out in class so much. We need to work on raising hands and waiting until we're called on. Not the easiest thing to reign in.

Lastly, we had Joseph. I feel sorry for the family that was after us as ours started at 6 with his teacher & we didn't leave until 6:50. There was a lot to cover & with Mrs. M there, too, to go over things, it was a long but very fun discussion.
One thing that I found so endearing happened a few weeks ago with Joseph's teacher. Andrew's class came out a few minutes late & so I hadn't gotten over to the other side to pick up Joseph & here came his teacher walking him down the sidewalk to me & they were having a light saber battle all the way down the sidewalk. Who does that? Mr. Kennedy. Apparently, every morning that Joseph goes to school early, he drops off his backpack and runs in and attacks Mr. K. and they battle out of the room and out to the front of the school it looks like, too. He is such an awesome teacher and Joseph is such an awesome kid.

As always, we love the kids' teachers & all that they do & are grateful for how much they love our children.