Conferences

While there were no school for the boys, I attended both of parent/teacher conferences. Both of them inspired me with the positive notes.

I arranged the meeting with Ryan's teacher before meeting Dylan's teacher since they both attended two different school sites. As for Ryan's meeting, his special education teacher, speech therapist and I met together along with a sign language interpreter.

Ryan's Success:

1) has met his annual goal, required no prompts to initiate play, 100 % of the time.
2) writes his name and numbers up to 20 independently
3) recites all of the things he has learned since the school started
4) able to complete simple adding and subtracting problems using manipulates with teacher assistance.
5) is doing very well in his mainstream Language Arts with 3 adults and does the work properly
6) reads at the beginning of the first grade

Ryan's In the Progress:

1) learned to match 15/21 consonant sounds and 1/5 short vowel sounds at this time. (needs to make 17/21 consonant sounds- only two more to go and 3/5 short vowel sounds - again two more to go)
2) knew lots of categories: food, parts of body, clothes except he needs to work on furniture and appliances.
3) needs to attend to and participate in teacher directed non-preferred activities for 15 minutes. His average non-preferred activities is 5-10 minutes.
4) works on the patterns
5) only knew the front and back of the book. He needs to know the other part of the literacy: title, author, etc.

Before I left for Dylan's parent/teacher conference, both special education and speech therapist said the same comment, "He is a very smart boy. He is happy and we love him very much. He is so much fun to work with."

Getting comments from Dylan's 1st grade teacher was a positive ones, too. The first thing she stated, "Dylan is a very bright student, and has met all of the expectations."

Dylan's Success:

1) is reading at second grade level (7.0), the passing score is 4.0.
2) is in 2nd grade math level
3) is able to write lengthy essay.
4) helping others to complete their tasks since he tends to finish his work first.

Dylan's In the Progress:

1) needs to write more descriptive essays and different strategies in order to have the evaluators considered him as advanced instead of proficient.
2) needs to read a little bit slower; otherwise he'll mumble a lot
3) is learning to work on a complication in math.
4) Will work on buying more "The Magic Tree" series and work on reading reports
5) needs to release his tensions when it comes to "free time work" he thinks that he must finish

Now, it is time for me to roll my sleeves up to work both of my boys' education. All I can say for now is that I AM REALLY PROUD OF THEM!