Logan’s 1st Kindergarten Parent/Teacher Conference

The million dollar question – does Logan have “the brains” to get a full-ride scholarship to Harvard? Maybe Sara and I are too relaxed on education, but our perspective is that Kindergarten provides a foundation (both academically and socially)…not a place to get to stressed out about achievement scores. We definitely are very active volunteering in his school and working on homework, but I am not going to be a “helicopter parent” if my 5-year old missed one sound on the alphabet chart.

Summary:
-Logan is doing great!
-Math appears to be his strength. He can count to 109 and can handle most single number addition; starting to work on subtraction.
-He is starting word recognition and can read some simple lines.
-He can tell time on a regular clock (some minor errors).
-He knows all his letters. He missed (4) letter sounds: W,N, and some others. That placed him with an achievement score of 88. Unfortunately, this was one of the lower scores in his class. His teacher was very quick to point out that his class is not a good comparison. If you look at the scores in the other Kindergarten classes you would see scores in the 20-30s.
-Socially he is very polite and happy. His area of opportunity is to talk less and focus on his work….not a surprise to mom and dad! Logan definitely likes to talk! Since he talks so much he often rushes to finish projects and doesn’t focus on quality. We need to help him understand that not everything is a race or competition.
-His teacher commented that his class is the most polite class she has had in her teaching career. She says it is great as kids who may normally act out don’t since all the others are well-behaved.

In short, thinking back to when Logan was below the 3 percentile for speech clarity he has come a tremendous way! It will be fun to watch as the school year progresses. We are just excited that he is making new friends and loves to go – every morning he watches the clock and runs to the bus.