We had Ryan's first Kindergarten parent teacher conferences last night. It was so much fun to listen to his teachers brag about him. :) Mrs Niles said he's doing a wonderful job and picks up on things so quickly. She said he's alot of fun to have in her class and is very smart. They did their first DIEBELS (reading assessment) testing of the year, and one of the tests is on phonetics, hearing letter sounds. They said words to the kids and they had to tell the teacher what sound the word started with. She said most all of the time, this first testing period, the kindergartners usually have no clue what they're even talking about, let alone which sound is which. They usually score zero on this part, until later in the school year when they test again. .......however, my lil mr smartie pants Ryan scored 21. :) So proud of that lil boy! She did say he gets a bit chatty & social, LOL, and we laughed about that....esp since that was always the one thing my parents heard about me at conferences. :) Then we went over and talked with Mrs Cattau, who is his reading teacher and has him a couple hours a day. We sat down and she said "I only have good things to say about Ryan, I would take 20 of him!" She said she would take him home, any day. :) She said he's in her top reading group, and is very intelligent and sweet. She said she loves to hear him talk and tell stories when he's excited. She said he does an outstanding job and is always right where he needs to be!
Talk about a wonderful first Kindergarten parent teacher conference!! He just loves school so far, and even came home with an Outstanding Student Good Manners award from the music teacher last week!! : ) So that's my brag session for the day on my little Star Student. :) More to come soon, I'm sure. :)
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