Parent Teacher Meeting
pamelamyers | November 23, 2015
Today was our parent teacher conference at school. Mark and I were anxious to talk to Sam’s teacher to make sure she was doing well in school. We thought she was, but you just never know. It was a quick 20 minute or so appointment, and I didn’t really have anyone to watch Sam, so I decided, to heck with it. She is a big girl. She can sit in the hallway and amuse herself with my Kindle while we meet with Ms. Cipolloni. When we got there, one of the tables outside her classroom happened to be set up with crayons and a bunch of turkey and other Thanksgiving pages and Sam sat outside, quiet as could be, coloring and eating her snack.
Anyway, we met with her teacher and to sum it up, Sam is doing really well. She is still one of the quieter group of kids, but she does have her friends, she gets along well with everyone, and she does talk in class both voluntarily and also even when she doesn’t raise her hand and the teacher calls on her. We discussed her progress reading and she is pretty much average. Not doing better than she should be, and not doing worse. I talked to Ms. Cipolloni about how she just recently seemed to have an interest in learning to read, she tries to find her sight words and she is trying to spell things. I related a time recently when Sam wrote something and asked me if I could read it. It was hard to understand, but one of the words she tried to write was “hopped”. She wrote it “hpt”. She has done this before. When spelling words, she tends to skip all the vowels. Her teacher said it is perfectly normal at this age, the vowels are the hardest for kids to understand, and that frankly, it was impressive that she even used the “p” since most kids at her age are very focused on the beginning and end sounds and skip over the middle entirely. So, she is doing great. Sam likes her homework, likes reading her 100 book challenge books, and she loves school. And she does seem to be learning, not only reading, but math and science as well. I can’t ask for much more than that.
Hopefully, she will continue in that vein and be off and reading for real soon!