Thursday, February 9, 2012

And the teachers weigh in....

It's always nice when you go and get really good reports from your children's teachers. today was the first day of parent teacher conferences for the girls school, and luckily I was able to get their conferences done today.The good reports of course were a given with the girls.

Kylie's teacher just absolutely adores her! She said Kylie is one of the sweetest kids she knows and has no doubt she will excel very well in kindergarten next year. She plays well with the other students, always wants to help the teachers do things and picks up on learning new things very well. In order to start kindergarten at the girls school, they must be able to recognize all the letters lower case and upper case, and their numbers 1-10. Kylie has all of her letters down, and knows almost all of the numbers to 20. She couldn't recognize three of them starting at 15, but there is no concern with her. She's started to learn to read, and if she is anything like Kenzie when it comes to reading, she will pick up on it fairly easy.

Mackenzie's teacher really enjoys having Mackenzie in her class. Mackenzie's midterm report card was all "A's" which is great. She brought the one "B" she had up and now hopefully she can keep it that way. Her reading is doing extremely well also. At their school, by the end of the year the first graders are to be reading at or around 40 words per minute (wpm). Mackenzie when she did her test on wpm is at 41 wpm. In second grade, you are to start at reading around 40 wpm at the beginning of the school year and by the end of the school year reading around 80 wpm. Seems at the rate Kenzie is going she will be close to that at the end of her first grade year. there's nothing wrong with that though! She also has an extremely good memory and because of that her teacher has had to change the way she goes over the sight word list with Mackenzie. She has the entire three page list of words, which totals about 30 words, memorized. Her math seems to cause her the most problems in class. That doesn't surprise me. I was never very good in math. Luckily her teacher gave me some suggestions to use with Mackenzie so that should help!

Hard to believe the third nine week period is almost over! It seems this school year has just flown by. I guess that's what happens with two kids in school though!

Till Next Time!!!

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