This past Thursday we had the kid's conferences with their teachers where we received their first report card for the year. We were pretty certain as to how Matt did but with Emily we had a few concerns.
Third grade here at the kid's school requires them to have a homeroom teacher who does grammar and writing and then they have to switch teachers and classrooms for Math, Reading & Spelling and Science & Social Studies. Emily biggest struggle this year has been in reading.....she fluctuates in her grades and most of that fluctuation has to do with comprehension and inferring within stories. She has had a few tests of concern so I did meet with this teacher and she will be starting with tutoring, which is provided free of charge from and at school, one day a week for 20 mins. after school. The tutoring will focus on the inferring aspect.... what also helps is that this school term is learning how to infer and get nonfactual information from stories so she will be having major exposure to this issue. She did end up with a B in the class.
Math which is normally her menace has actually gone very well. Since our conversation with her teacher on Back to School night at the beginning of the school year, Emily has been attending the after school tutoring session on Monday's. She had all A's & one B in the class until a recent test where she got her first F. UGH!!!! We did realized that on the test all but one of the incorrect answers was the same math function she did not "get". I spoke with the teacher prior to the meeting and she told me not to be concerned that Emily's average with all the tests and quizzes taken that she had a solid A grade in the class....and she did. We did talk to her again on conference night and she told us that if Emily is struggling in any areas that she is usually at school early and late several nights beside tutor night and Emily is more than welcome to go to her for extra help.
The area of "work" that each of her teacher's expressed is getting Emily to come to them when she has a question or doesn't understand something whether it is during schoolwork or test time instead of her waiting for them to read the panic and upset nature on her face. She has been making small improvements since the beginning of the year though.
All in all her report card was mainly B's and a few A's which is pretty solid for the first marking period of 3rd grade with the curriculum and classroom changes.
Matt is doing very well having received all A's in his first marking period of first grade. His teacher is very pleased with his progress and he is doing very well in class. Matt loves to charm her!! Matt's area of struggle at this point is that they have just started reading comprehension and that is a new area for him..... his penmanship is also a little messy. When it comes to math though, he learns it once and it is in his head.....he has amazing recall. Also, his reading skills are improving and he loves reading!!
So, it was a very successful first period of school. I have to say though that one of the things that has helped the most is having Dave available for homework time......I don't know how I would have been able to help both the kids with their homework without it taking all night because of the work load for each child and the material needing to be covered. Daddy saves the day!!!
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