Parent/Teacher Conferences

We have reached a milestone with Abby. Our first Parent/Teacher Conferences (for Preschool)! Now, as a teacher, I have done my fair share of conferences, and this was similar to what I would have expected. Her teacher had a whole list of "End of Year Goals" for the 3's class. They were broken into catagories:

• Social/School Skills and Behaviors
• Cognitive Skills
• Self-Help Skills
• Motor Skills

I was the most interested in Cognitive Skills, of course, and here were the specific things that she "tested" them on in that category.

• Can identify all body parts.
• Recognize my first and last name (so far they only do first).
• Identify red, yellow, green, blue, black, brown, orange, purple.
• Recite rhymes/sing songs.
• Identify a circle, square, triangle, rectangle (she does more shapes, including oval, octagon, etc.).
• Count from 1-10 (but they go higher).
• Identify numbers 1-5 (she added zero).
• Speak in sentences of five or more words.
• Tell a story. (apparently Abby excels at this!)
• Know alike and different.

Abby aced it all. Her teacher said she "is a bright little girl." Which we knew, of course, but it is nice to hear.

The only area that we want to work on a little is Motor Skills. She isn't really behind on it, but she's not ahead of the curve either. Her teacher had a cutting exercise to show us, of a drawn circle that they were asked to cut out. Abby's was perfectly cut, though she is the only one in her class that didn't get it completely cut out. Hers, at the most, was only 1/4 cut out. Her teacher commented that Abby is a bit of a perfectionist (wonder where she got that), so it had to be perfect or it wasn't going to get done. What can I say- she's definitely my kid.