We had Ellie's spring parent-teacher conference last night, and are so proud of her! She recognized all of her basic shapes and was the only one in her class to also recognize the octagon. The shape she missed was a pentagon...um, yeah, I have fifth graders who don't know what a pentagon is.
Besides her knowledge of shapes, she also knew 23 letter sounds, counted to 29, knew her phone number and address (although she did say she lived in California, then changed it to French Island, Minnesota). She knows the house number and street, which I feel is sufficient at this point:-)
She has an "advanced" pencil grip and writing skills and does a super job of forming letters and writing her name with an upper case letter at the beginning and lower case letters after that. As someone who has taught kindergarten, I refuse to teach my child to write in all upper case letters. Do you have any idea how hard it is to un-teach that??????
Her teacher said that she is very "animated" and "energetic" in class, and always willing to particpate and volunteer. You've all met Ellie, so "animated" and "energetic" can be interpretted as you'd like.
After a stellar conference she came home and ran at Jaymeson with a straw in her mouth, which then stabbed both of them in the mouth. Common sense was not part of the report card.
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