Conferences

I had Ve's conference tonight. Her reading ability has jumped from a DRA 1 to DRA 6...huge jump, her addition is OK, and she needs help on her subtraction. Ve's behavior is great. I almost felt like I was hearing about a completely different girl. It was quite an amazing conference. I strongly feel that Ve's reading, spelling and writing has improved so much due to the sight word flash cards I require her to do daily. I started this last spring and she has improved dramatically since. Her teacher also said that Ve was a "ruler follower", pretty good for a girl who really didn't know the difference between right and wrong a few years ago.

I also saw Mim's reading level...Below Basic...Now I know why this is, but it was about this time after home arrival that I started having Ve work with flash cards, so I informed Mim that tonight she is now required to do the cards daily as well. She balked at first, she has incredible pride, but I told her that is the only way her reading will improve, so she finally consented to my "demands". I haven't pushed her as hard in certain learning strategies simply because she was much older, but I think that has been a bad decision. She feels she is too old to do some of these basic rote strategies, but in fact she needs them to build a firm foundation for her next level of learning.

As for Tuki's dance conference, the words used to describe her were: "she has a BIG personality", "she loves to be a line leader', and "she is a visual learner", many of the same things her 4K teacher said...I guess Tuki remains true to herself...and I must say both teachers were correct in their observations.