Mom's Brag Book

Greta has completed her first quarter of elementary school. It's hard to believe nine weeks have just gone by! I had her report card conference with her teacher this morning, and am pleased to brag about her accomplishments. She is doing even better than I thought she was doing, and has matured greatly in the past few weeks. She is the top reader in the class, and is almost at the reading level Kindergartners are expected to be at at the end of the year, so that is fabulous. Her writing is also excellent, and she is beyond where many students are. Math seems easy for her as well -- hmm, doesn't get that from her maternal side -- and lately she just loves everything about school. She comes home sharing so many things that she is learning -- which she would not do in the beginning of the year. Her favorite thing right now is !. That's right. !. Thanks to her teacher, she LOVES exclamation points and delights in finding them everywhere. She knows that they mean to say something in an exciting way, and does a very good job reading them appropriately. It's amazing the skills they not just learn but need to master in Kindergarten. So much has changed just in the 5 years since I have taught first grade. This year, they are going to have to SPELL certain words, and they even need to know what a comma is and what it is used for -- it is a pause, luckily they don't delve too deeply into that whole comma thing yet, still confuses me. I will probably create further posts espousing the ridiculous things that the Kindergartners of today are required to accomplish. I understand some of it, but my goodness these poor children! Fortunately, even though she is one of the youngest in her class, if not grade (and probably THE youngest) Greta seems to be handling herself well and tackling the obstacles she is given. I am very happy and confident that she is receiving top notch education, and that she really likes learning. Her (our) 3 week break starts Monday, and her teacher is going to send home some stuff and I have some stuff too that I think she will enjoy working on. We don't have too many other plans, though we will probably meet daddy for lunch once a week, run errands, and I'd really like to have a picnic somewhere. And, if it cools down fit the playground in there maybe even with some friends. This is the first time she has been home with me because when she was at daycare before I didn't keep her home, I had to pay for it, she might as well go. Plus she really liked it, honest! <---- !

So that is my bragging for now. We look forward to daddy's weekend off, and that today is a cloudy day so a brief respite from the heat. (Did I mention that we just broke a record and have had 84 days this year above 90 degrees and we're not done yet?)

Happy Friday everyone!