Hubby and I had our very first conference with Danielle's teacher this morning and over all, Danielle is doing well in school. She's scored highest on reading and we're suppose to work on reading comprehension and also on her math test speed. When Danielle took her baseline math assessment test, she scored low because she took time to double check the accuracy of her answer and diligent on her hand writing and took too long in down all her answers. She wasn't able to complete all 50 questions within the given time. Now we know what we have to work on.
As far as reading, the books that she's bringing home from school are not challenging enough for her and for some reason she doesn't like the higher level books that was recommended by her school. We're going to figure out the type of books she enjoys reading and strengthen her reading skills. I can see that she enjoys reading "harder" books than her class mates.
In math, she's learning addition and subtraction between 0-20 so her brought home some flash cards that will be added to her homework repertoire. She was very excited to show me that se knows 8+8 is 16 but when I asked her how she figured it out, she said that she memorized it.
On the piano front, she was intrigued that her piano teacher had adults and children as students so I told her that Hubby and I would take piano lesson if we have the time to practice at home. Her latest homework are "Lullaby" and "10 Little Jazzy Indians" which is a bit harder to play than plain "10 little Indians". I enjoy playing it so I hope she feels the same way.
2 comments:
that is great. it is crazy with M's parent teacher conferences. She's having to deal with parents saying "sorry, i can't make it to the conference because I ran out of gas". and then calling in the middle of the day (2pm when school is still going on) saying, "i just got gas and can meet you now". that's great that danielle is so advanced in reading. sounds like the math will be no prob at all. i remember when i was in 1st grade and couldn't understand subtraction.
Hubby and I took time off from work to attend the conference so we take it seriously.
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