It's conference time around here and the first round of report cards are trickling in. In the midst of doing my classroom conferences, I've been moving around to my own kids' teachers to hear what wonderful (and not so wonderful) things they have to say. I started off yesterday morning with JEDs conference. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that he received one B and the rest As on his report card. He is also being moved up to the high math and writing groups (already has been in the high reading group). He's showing some great abilities in school academically (which we already knew, but being at a new school the teachers didn't know) and hopefully moving him up will curb his need to be naughty. I was really proud of him, however, and excited to see that he is doing as well as he is.
Conference number two yesterday was for MED. Her teacher gushed on and on about how sweet a little girl she is, how mature she is, what a great helper she is... I could go on and on. MED loves school and you can see that from the moment she walks in to the building. Her teacher is already providing enrichment in the area of reading and MED regularly gets chapter books to read where most of her counterparts are reading shorter books. She loves to read - MED will finish a book within days of starting it. Junie B. Jones are some of her favorites right now. I knew MEDs conference would be good and I wasn't disappointed!
At the end of my class conferences, I headed off to CEDs conference at her school. CED didn't want to attend her school at first and she gave her dad and I a really hard time. For the first week of school, she cried, pouted, argued, gave us the cold shoulder, glared at us, glared at others, snapped at her siblings... I could go on and on. She finally has given up on trying to convince us to put her back at her old school and she's adjusted and adapted to her new school. She has lots of new friends and has really blossomed back into the girl and student we know her to be. In fact, kids regularly tell her that she's the teacher's favorite student and recently she received the highest grade on a history test that teachers there have ever seen. Anyway, her report card was wonderful - especially considering a pretty serious learning curve with the requirements and methods this school has. Her teacher couldn't think of anything she needed to work on. Wow! Again, I was really pleased to hear all the great things said (who wouldn't be?).
The next conference, for JAD, will be next Wednesday. I'm not overly looking forward to that one. My super-bright-son-who-doesn't-want-to-apply-himself will have an interesting conference, I know. He has decided that being the class clown is more important than being the quiet kid that pleases the teacher and does everything he's asked. So, I'm sure I'll learn some interesting facts about him next week. I can't complain too much, however. He's not on drugs, he's generally very respectful, and he has a pretty high moral code. All the things we want for our kids.
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This past Thursday, MED was part of another community performance through the conservatory. We were asked weeks ago if she could be part of the performing group, but it was in the morning and I had to be at conferences (can't take off on that day!) and K was in Arizona at a company business meeting. They were very understanding, but sad that she couldn't be there. This past Monday though, I received a phone call. It turns out this breakfast was a fundraiser for CPCD (Community Partnership for Child Development - the governing group over Headstart, which MED attended two years ago). They were specifically requesting my daughter to be there. The director of the conservatory offered to bring MED to and from the performance as long as I didn't mind. Mind? Not at all! So, Wednesday night we headed off to the sound check where we met several nice ladies, the event coordinators, from CPCD who informed us that they see my MED as the face of CPCD and Headstart. Seriously? That's pretty cool! Thursday morning, MED was picked up at 6:30 am to head off to shine and hopefully help CPCD garner some more funding for their programming with her cute smile. She had to be up before 6 so I could get her 'performance ready' - something I think she might be doing a lot in the next few years as she gets more and more involved with the conservatory. I am so blessed that she is doing this - her confidence level is through the roof... and she is not 'big-headed' in any way.
I do love my kids. They may do things at home that drive me crazy (to the point of insanity!), but they are good, kind people to their very core and they just bless me immensely every day.
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