valentines day @ school

The kids had their V-day parties yesterday, they have been excited all week for it (I really do not remember it being that exciting:). They had a lot of fun and got a lot of candy - as if they really need that. Thursday night they had to address their cards (only the from part - the teachers asked that the cards not be address to anyone because that they can just hand them out and not have to worry about which card goes to which student- works for me:)

They really had a fun day!!!!!!!!

Meet Mit (The red books)

So, I don't know how many are familiar with these books. However I am so very familiar with them - you see, I spend almost all day listening to Kids read (well TRY to read them). I spend 20 min a day with a 2nd grader reading them, 1 hour a day with the Special Ed class reading them, 30 min with a third grader, 30 min with 1st graders reading them and if that were not enough - 2 weeks ago Jaxons teacher sent home a note saying he was ready to bring books home and have us sign them off ------- low and behold...... Same books. Some days I think I may go crazy if I have to hear any more about Mit and Sam :) Although it is nice to see progress - but really I don't see a lot I mostly get to hear the same stories over and over again - except for Jax - he seems to breeze right through them:)

Parent Teacher Conference!!!!!! (winter 2010)

Tonight was conferences for the kids. I wanted to share with anyone that cares:)

Jaxon's teacher told us that she was so amazed at the progress he has made. Since returning from Christmas break she says that he has just made so much improvement. He has moved up in reading groups, is doing great with math, and he is doing great socially (but that has never been his problem :) She says she is unsure of the reason but thinks it may be that his confidence is higher because he is improving so much on his speech (He does speech 2x a week in school and 1x a week up at the Scottish rite house, and his therapist is wonderful). The first time he said C O A T instead of oat I wanted to cry (he has been trying to get the c/k sound for a very long time) and I made him say coat for anyone that would listen (I am sure most of them did not care and thought it was strange that I was so excited, but I was:)

Kadrey also got a wonderful report back:) Such a great day to have so much GOOD news (we don't get that a lot :( She is doing great in her spelling, her teacher has decided that she needs to move into the top spelling group (yay for Dree). Her reading and fluency are wonderful and so is her math. Her teacher did mention one problem that she is having... paying attention and staying focused on the teacher while he is teaching (I have been talking with her about this, but really since she is doing so well I am not so worried:)

After working with kids that are so far behind and struggling so much All Day Long it is so wonderful to hear that my kids are doing great. OK I am done now :)