Conferences and Fish

So Monday night was Trevor's second and last conference for Kindergarten. Warning to all relatives who do not like to be compared to our kids. I will be going on a little brag-fest shortly.

We went to the conference and chatted with his teacher. We went over his challenges that we have been addressing in order to make sure he is at least meeting expectations according to Kindergarten standards. We have been doing a weekly sticker chart in order to focus on improving certain things and also to help Trevor understand if he is accomplishing the goals we set for him. Going over all the categories that he was working on, he has shown improvement over his report card in January. We don't get a quarterly report card, only at the halfway point and end of the year. So we still have more time to get his "grades" up on his areas in need of improvement.

Although his academic areas, we didn't need to discuss areas to improve. He really can't get any higher in terms of Kindergarten levels. We really talked about what to do for the future. I believe we got so lucky when it came to his teacher and the whole way our district handles gifted students. They have so many resources because of their own gifted classrooms. Anyway, his teacher has been so good about making sure he is challenged and not held back as a result of his abilities. He has been able to move up in reading from starting at a 1st grade plus a half year, up to a 2nd grade plus a half year. She is having him start on computerized math time tests that they do in 1st grade and beyond. Since his teacher is staying at the school, she has offered to pass on wherever he ends up in reading and math to his next teacher. She has given us suggestions and thoughts on what to do in his future grades. It is going to be an interesting decision.

And then there was a fish. Actually, it turned in to more than one fish. In the past, I haven't had the best of luck with fish. Trevor's class was studying fish and his teacher sent home a request for anyone who wanted to take one home to sign up. Well, I signed up thinking that there would be more than plenty wanting the fish. Well, of course I got a call today, the last day before spring break, that Trevor gets a fish. So I ran to get a tank, fish food, and brought it all home with the fish after school. I have no real idea why, but I started to get a bad feeling about the fish. So while the tank was being set up, we ran out to the pet store to buy some water conditioner and picked up another fish. In case anyone was wondering, they cost ten cents now. Because after buying a tank, and setting everything out, only to have the class fish die within 3 hours was not ok with me. So we have one live fish, probably get another one, and hopefully one of the 3 will last longer than a week.

To be continued!