Parent/Teacher Consultations

It was that time of year again....I was able to meet with my girls' teachers and see how they are doing....like I told them....AWFUL!

Not really, Hannah is doing great. They scale them and hope to have them reach 6's by the time they leave foundation. Hannah is at 6 -8's so no problem there since she's already there and will only go up. She was low on one category which was the social development. The teacher explained to me that even though Hannah is not really a shy person in small groups and tends to be the leader, she doesn't participate very much when in the large class setting - as in asking questions. I guess though she's coming out of that shell since she's gaining the confidence she is a smart little girl and they are working on story lines and Hannah is wanting to share her ideas with the class. She's a very imaginative little girl and she gets so animated when telling a story. She's reading great and is using her phonics so well! I'm so proud of my Hanners. She was checked off on all the sounds that they were wanting them to know by heart and she's one of the younger ones in her class! So proud of my baby girl!

Madison is doing excellent. She's like me a lot and gets bored with doing the same thing and having to write down all the steps. The teacher was telling me how they are suppose to use this number line thing and showed me how they used it, I saw and instantly told the teacher...I can see why she doesn't like to do it....it's too time consuming for her. She is a star at reading and math....addition, subtraction, multiplication and division and really enjoys writing stories and sciences. She's doing so well and keeping up so nicely with everyone and she is nearly the youngest ones in her class....I think one other girl beats her by a couple of days. She's so competitive...I think it's good she's in a class where the majority are older (the class is Year 1 and Year 2 split.)

A little side note that has to be remembered....Madison is in class with our neighbor and they are really good friends. As I was picking up the girls from our neighbors (she brought them home since my meetings weren't done after hers were, have I mentioned how WONDERFUL my neighbors are?) and we were talking about the girls. My friend had mentioned how the teacher had showed her the writing work her daughter was actually doing. She was so impressed and made note since before it was apparently Madison who was writing for her. K would draw the pictures and Madison would write the story turns out. Us moms were completely unaware thinking the occasional work we would get with K's drawings and Madison's writing were something they did together during Friday Fun or something. No no, it was on school work they were suppose to be doing independently. Nice! Way to be resourceful right? K is in Year 1 and Madison was just trying to keep her up. Silly girls!

Hannah's class had an "I am Special" book they made. Each of the kids had a picture and underneath it they wrote by they were special. Want to guess what Hannah's said??!!

"I am special because I am beautiful and I help my mum clean my room."

Yeah, she's really lacking confidence.....

The teacher and I had a good laugh about that one. Doesn't help when your kids are always told how cute they are and they are like Hannah and remember and retain that information. The other day we were eating bagels in the coffee shop on base since we were done being sick with the stomach flu and that was just about it we could handle. 6 English men come in and they are kind of not the ones you think that would say anything since they are all kind of gruff and scruffy worker types (I don't mean any offence by it just trying to kind of describe how they looked) but they couldn't stop looking at my three girls (not the creepy kind of way by any means) and remarking how beautiful little girls they were and how they they all looked so much alike. Then mentioned how they all look like their mum (yeah us mom's like compliments too) and how dad is going to be caring a rifle when they are teenagers. Bellies can put a smile on a grumpy man's face by her cheesy smile and dinosaur roar (she's very vocal these days). I love my girls. They are such wonderful girls who put a smile on my face every day. Even their smart comments make me laugh when they can't see...even though I know they see me smiling when I turn my head. I'm trying to be better about that.