American Family » kindergarten http://american-family.org Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:19:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The other conference topic http://american-family.org/2008/11/18/the-other-conference-topic/ http://american-family.org/2008/11/18/the-other-conference-topic/#comments Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:15:01 +0000 AmericanFamily http://american-family.org/?p=1683 About a month ago, M came home from school saying some surprising things.   In addition to her speshul snowflakedness, I also talked to her teacher about what M said in this conversation:

M: Mama, I don’t like Jason*.  He is in my class an I don’t like him.

Me: Why not?

M: He has a [...]]]> http://american-family.org/2008/11/18/the-other-conference-topic/feed/ 10 Parent-Teacher Conference (long!) http://american-family.org/2008/11/15/parent-teacher-conference-long/ http://american-family.org/2008/11/15/parent-teacher-conference-long/#comments Sat, 15 Nov 2008 19:55:05 +0000 AmericanFamily http://american-family.org/?p=1672 Ok, so there is no way to write this without sounding like I am talking about my prechus little speshul gifted snowflake.  But since I have discussed our angsting over M’s school here before, I am going to go into a bit of detail about it anyway.  Mock me if you must.

I had my [...]]]> http://american-family.org/2008/11/15/parent-teacher-conference-long/feed/ 11 Twekcl Twekcl Ltutul Stre http://american-family.org/2008/10/12/twekcl-twekcl-ltutul-stre/ http://american-family.org/2008/10/12/twekcl-twekcl-ltutul-stre/#comments Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:46:44 +0000 AmericanFamily http://american-family.org/?p=1546 Just a quick kid update because this week has been very tempestuous and I am tired of thinking about it.

M is slowly learning to write.

It is an extremely frustrating process for her because her receptive reading is very good, but her handwriting and spelling are not. (No surprise as spelling and fine motor [...]]]> http://american-family.org/2008/10/12/twekcl-twekcl-ltutul-stre/feed/ 7