Parent/ Teacher conferences. The semester ended yesterday.
The run down so far:
DS11 6th grade - "socialization affects performance"
Yep, he's my kid alright. LOL
Doing well in all his classes, needs to learn to shut up, and needs to get organized. Again, my kid. I am so unorganized, just ask Lisa. Over all, his conferences were a lot better than I thought they would be. He clashes with 1 teacher but we basically said deal with it, in life you don't always get along with everyone you work with.
DS6 1st grade - this is the child that the kindergarten teacher wanted to keep back cause he was "immature" and would "struggle" and that "we are doing a disservice to our kid by moving him forward."
Yeah right!!! Teacher is thrilled with the strides he is making. He is in speech, poor kid has a large tongue, just like his mama did. But he is doing fabulously with that, if he speaks slowly and clearly you can understand everything he says. 4 months ago he couldn't say the hard g sound like in goat, heck you couldn't understand anything he said. He physically could not make certain sounds. Poor speech teacher ended up leaving last month, I think DS broke her down. But not before getting him to say goat.
He is in remedial reading too. Because of the speech delay, his reading was not up to par. He was at a DRA level of 2 in Sept and is now up to a 6 which is grade level! His regular teacher and his reading teacher both said keeping him back would have been a HUGE mistake. I am soooo glad I stuck to my guns on that one. I really hemmed and hawed about it, and literally 2 days before school started the principal called me to make sure I was keeping him in Kindergarten and I was like um, no. The teacher lied to him and said we had agreed to retention.
no wonder she won't even acknowledge me in the halls. She's mad that I was right.
Whew, I was so worried that I had made the wrong decision, I'm glad I was validated by 2 teachers. YAY!!
DS7's (2nd grade) conference is tomorrow, he needs some help with his letters, b and d are still getting mixed up. The reading teacher wants him to be on the Lexia program but I need to be the one to initiate that. So I will mention it tomorrow. Apparently she mentioned it last year but the teachers didn't see it as a big deal, it's not an issue unless they are mixing things up in 2nd grade. Poor kid got a complex last year because his teacher called him the backwards king. I don't want it to be an issue, ya know.
Whew, glad that's over!!!! I'm glad DH was with me, I hate conferences. I feel like I'm the student all over again.
(ok, only kidding...) 
he had them, not sure where they went!!!!!
