Stuart and I attended Connor’s conference on Wednesday morning and Logan’s this morning.  Both days we walked to school all together and dropped the boys off at CDC before we headed to the classroom.  Yesterday we spent 20 minutes with Connor’s teacher.  She shared with us what the kindergarteners are learning in class, and we were surprised by how structured some of their writing is.  Connor is doing well in all areas especially reading.  Connor is a chatterbox according to the teacher; he talks to his tablemates a lot and he talks to whoever he sits next to at the rug.  Fortunately he always stops when he is being reminded, therefore the teacher did not feel that there is anything we need to talk to him about.  Overall Connor is doing great.

    Both Stuart and I were worried going into Logan’s conference, but fortunately he is progressing well too.  We spent 30 minutes talking with his teacher.  Based on the computer work and classwork, Logan is meeting his grade level standard and even earned a “3” in reading/phonics.  He is making progress in his writing and did well in the time telling test which was the topic that I was pulling my hair out working with him.  The one thing the teacher brought up was that Logan does not seem to be engaged or focused during lessons at times.  She would call on him even if he did not raise to his hand, and sometimes he was caught off guard and hadn’t heard the question.  She has tried a couple of tactics but has not been successful yet.  We totally understand what she means as we also encourage Logan to be more focused at home too.  Other than this area which we all will try to concentrate on, Logan does fine in other behavior categories.  After the conference, we felt relieved, and felt that we have a direction now for Logan to continue with his progress.