We are so proud

This week our kids received their grade cards.We'll start with the bad news first. Andrea our kindergardener (sp?) is not doing so hot. She has done horrible all year. She is one that just doesn't care. She hasn't cared about learning the whole year. She did not want to learn at home. And I suppose it's partially my fault for not working harder with her. But I thought maybe she would try when she went to school. But she hasn't, so I'm sure she will be taking kindergarten over again next year. Unfortunately she also had a brand new teacher this year who is very young and how do I want to put it... lacks the experience and she is very meek and quiet. I'm sure she will get better with more experience but my child didn't benefit from the teaching this year. By the way, my 3 youngest go to public school. So no reflection on the private school here.
Zachary who had trouble in kindergarten got a second chance at it in the public school where he flourished last year. So first grade this year has went very well. He also has a new teacher this year, but she is wonderful!! He is doing quite well in his reading. They have this thing they started after christmas where you start at a certain level like 1.1 and you get books in your level and read them and bring it back and take a comprehension test. And after 2 - 100's you move to the next level. He came home yesterday all excited that he's in level 1.8. He actually outreads all my kids. And he loves to read. Yeah! I do too. He of course is doing well and got all Excellent grades on his report card.
Jessica who has struggled for all her grades over the years is doing so well!! For those of you who don't know the whole story about our struggles with school with Jessica she has come along way! In preschool she struggled, and we should have listened and made her stay another year in preschool. But we felt she was getting too old because of her birthday being in October` she already would be one of the older ones in the class. And if we had waited another year before starting kindergarten she would have been turning seven shortly after starting. Well, our mistake, we should have listened, but you always think things will work out. She failed kindergarten. So I taught it to her again at home. Still not doing the best, but I moved her on. Of course the Abeka system is kinda hard, so I switched to ACE. We struggled through, but still the reading just wasn't where it needed to be. Finally after alot of prayer and struggling with what we should do, we put her in public school last year. They placed her in 3rd grade. She really should have been in 4th. She was in a regular class setting, but still was not able to do most of the work without help. After many conferences and finally getting testing done through the school she was put in ESE classes for her math, reading, spelling and English. She would be in her regular class for Science and Social Studies. We met with the teachers and guidance counselors so many times last year. At one meeting as I was big as a barn about 3 wks from delivering Meagan, I just burst into tears. I'm sure they all thought I was nuts!I am very emotional when it comes to my kids. Well we made it through last year, but the big problem was she had to pass the FCAT to be moved on to 4th. That didn't happen because she only started in the special classes in Feb. and Fcat was in March. So she failed the test. So she had an opportunity to take summer school the whole month of June and try to pass the FCAT again. Needless to say, we lost a whole month of summer and she still failed the FCAT again. So back to 3rd grade again this year. She has a wonderful classroom teacher and her ESE teachers are wonderful too. She has shown much improvement this year and has made the teachers honor roll all three 9 weeks so far. It has really boosted her self esteem as far as school work goes. After making honor roll the first nine weeks we bought her a cell phone.And she doesn't want to lose that priviledge. But I am so happy she is finally learning what she needs to. Hopefully she passes the FCAT this year, but if she doesn't she can't be held back again. Although it was a hard decision to make about putting her in public school, it was the right one for her. Below is a copy of her honor roll certificate from this 9 weeks. She is so proud to show it to everyone.This album is powered by BubbleShare - Add to my blog