PT Conferences
So -that time of year again, parent teacher confronces. Which means, of course, the kids have no school. Which means, of course, Lessa is going AAAAAAAHHH! Heh.
The reports, for the most part, were pretty good. All three were highly praised by their teachers for their imagination and their ability to continue to work and have grades up as high as they were while dealing with the emotional issues of losing Daddy. All three show a spark and flare for writing, and that’s been obvious to all of their teachers – also obvious and getting chuckles from me and sheepish looks from all THREE kids was the comment “oy, but their SPELLING is attrocious!” Well no kidding – look at mine!
The boy has one F, Math, and has promised to work twice as hard to get not only that one up to speed, but the other’s he’s falling down a bit in. He has his DC trip to look forward and save for as it is. It’d be a shame if gramma got to go and he had to stay home…
The girl, as well, has one F, Language Arts, and also has promised to put the extra work required into it. She has brought her math grade up from an F to a C with the extra class she’s been taking, and so that is a good thing too.
ALL of the Middle School teachers had great things to say about the kids – always respectful, always nice, just all around good kids. Even though the boy was showing his ass and being typically 13 at the time. *Smirk* But all in all they’re well loved by their teachers, and they’re holding their own gradewise.
The pup’s first grade teacher is the same gal who taught the older two in first and second grades. Which was the whole reason we opted to send the pup to the charter school for these two years. She’s got the Pup in one to one tutoring for reading and math, and man! The difference in just the past few weeks has been amazing! And, true to form? Teacher said “oh, but her spelling words….ouch.” Though even there she’s showing improvement.
So gold stars all the way around, except for the boy’s pissy ass attitude during the conferences themselves, for which he’s apologized profusely.
And – in other news? Lookit what I got today!
I’m FASHIONABLE, while making a statement about it too. *L* Get your own here.
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It was conferences here today, too. My second-grader’s teacher said she can not get him to pay attention. I know what she means. She says she doesn’t like to single kids out and embarrass them by telling them to pay attention, so she waits (not long) until he’s gawking around, and then calls on him. “But he always manages to give the right answer,” she said, somewhat disappointed. We agreed that it’s not too big a problem, since he had 4 A’s and 1 A-. He’s absorbing the info somehow.
#1 son’s teacher informed me that he’s a great kid, A student, but by accident let it slip that he had made a threatening comment to another teacher because he was mad that she teased him about one of her students tying his shoelaces together. The comment: “I know who your boss is. I know who pays your salary.” Yeah. We’re going to have a serious discussion about that as soon as he stops vomiting. A fifth-grader shouldn’t be starting that stuff. What connections does he think he has? I was soooooo embarrassed.