Yesterday afternoon as I was preparing dinner, A was in the living room playing a game on the Leapster L-Max that he received for Christmas. I popped around the corner to check on him, and he said to me "Something smells bad, and it's me!" I stared at him with a curious look on my face, I am sure and he started giggling. "I farted," he then added. Good grief!
Yesterday he brought home his report card from the second nine week session. Once again, he scored at or above grade level standards in all categories of academic achievement. Hooray! He went backwards in only one category, from working above grade level to working at grade level in phonics, which is not a surprise to me. He struggles a bit with phonics and would rather learn to read the word than learn to sound it out.
A gets frustrated when working on phonics, which is one of the reasons that he got a "needs improvement" in the area of "uses self-control." He also needs improvement in "demonstrating responsibility" but is satisfactory in all other specialty areas. Again, neither of these "needs improvement" areas is a surprise to me and we try to work on them.
The teacher's comments this session were: "A continues to make excellent progress. Keep up the good work. He needs to work on not interrupting when others are speaking." And while this is starting to sound tremendously redundant, the interrupting issue is well-known to us and one we work on constantly. A seems to think he can just start talking whenever he likes, regardless of whether or not someone else is speaking at the time.
I am very pleased with A's report card. Of course he has areas that need improvement but overall he is doing well. He is developing a love of reading and words, and can already do simple math. I try to take every opportunity I can in our daily lives to help him practice math, spelling and reading. Even if he smells bad at the time!
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