Thursday, April 12, 2012

Spring report cards

There are reasons I don't work in early childhood or elementary education. The obvious one is my near total lack of patience with children other than my own. The other reason is, I just would not be good at focusing on the things they need to focus on in order to fill out kids' report cards.


We had conferences for Sydney yesterday. At it, we learned that Sydney has gotten very good at cutting with a scissors. "Just look at the difference between fall and now," the teacher told us as she showed us two pieces of papers, one with a bunch of jagged cuts and one with three perfect cuts (or at least as good as anything I could do with those little rounded ends.) Way to go Syd!

Where she's not so perfect: standing on one foot for 10 seconds without tipping over. The comment on the report card: "Off balance a little today." Yeah. Happens to the best of us.

Overall, the teacher says she's a wonderful, happy little girl who will do just fine in kindergarten next year.

For AJ, there are no spring conferences. We just got a report card with only a few comments about his work habits, such as "Alex should continue to focus on keeping track of his papers, mail (notes from the teacher), shoes, etc." and "Just be sure you're always thinking about listening to directions or instructions."

He's in the top five in his class for reading and his handwriting is improving. He's gotten worse in composition and visual arts. Clearly he does not get his academic strengths from my side of the gene pool. Regarding the low art grade, AJ thinks it's because he didn't follow directions on a shoebox project they're working on, but I suspect there's more than that. I might have to ask.

Both kids are excited to see the school year end. AJ wants summer vacation so he can stay up late and sleep in and not have any more spelling homework. Sydney just wants to start kindergarten.

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