Parent Teach Conference

Yesterday we had a meeting with Keira's teacher...she has been testing the kids over the last couple of weeks to see if they are ready for Kindergarten or what they need to work on. Overall it was a great meeting. She is very happy with Keira and what she can do...There was a lot of information so I will try to remember all of it..

• She knows and can identify all the shapes and colors she is supposed to...she could do that at the beginning of the year and was one of the very few..which I found kinda shocking when the teacher mentioned it to me..4 year olds that don't know circle or purple to me seems very weird..I mean I can get Austin to identify circle on some days..
• She identified 24/26 capital letters on sight..which was the highest in the class..most get in the high teens..when it comes to her letters she tends to mix up "M" and "W" and "V" and "Y" both in capital and lower case
• She correctly finished the "what comes next in the pattern" like circle, circle, square, square ??? and even drew them..
• She can count to 29 consistently with only missing "16" and "21"..she has always had a problem with "15,16,17"
• She "hand confused" she can do things with both hands..she tends to lean towards the right, but will pick up things and do things her left
• We need to work on her grip of her pencil/crayon/marker..which isn't a big deal..we will just do more work on the "new" writing board we got for our birthday..bcuz we all know that we don't like old..lol
• She got all her opposites..left/right up/down/ above/under..she actually said below which most of the kids do say
• There was quite a few more but I can't remember them all..she has her first and last name down pat (remembering, spelling, and writing)..her address and phone number we need to work on..we have 3222 Porter, Texas..lol..and the phone number, not even close

Overall the teacher was very pleased..She is a very smart little girl, but there are a few things we need to work on and most of those we knew were issues and were working on them..LISTENING..she doesn't listen very well..you tell her something and she gets through the first step and then after that either doesn't want to do it or gets distracted EASILY..sharing..she doesn't always want to share, which she does here at home..she does really good with Austin for a while and then..NOPE, no more.. she is very, very sweet and caring about the other kids..if someone gets hurt she is the first one there, but sometimes she is too much in their face..she's not used to "personal boundaries" which we knew bcuz she isn't around other kids a lot..and my favorite thing...SHE TREATS THE TEACHER LIKE SHE TREATS ME !!!! LOL...She ignores the teacher when she doesn't want to do something and even does that little pouting thing with her too....so it's not just me...hee hee hee..overall she doesn't suggest holding her back to the intermediate pre-school..it seems quite a few of the parents are holding their kids back bcuz it is a young class..all of them are 4 year olds with birthdays in the summer, so they are younger..she didnt' suggest that to us..she thinks Keira needs to be with the older kids and it will help her become more adjusted..we never planned on holding her back, guess we are a little different than the rest..imagine that !!!!