Parent Teacher Conference for Lyndall

Well yesterday was the parent teacher conference. Stukey does it a little different, its more like a student parent conference. This way the kids know where they are in terms of finishing the grade and what goals they need to work towards to do so. It also opens up great communication for the student and parent. The teacher is there in the class to help and explain things if need be.

Reading:
At the beginning of school he was at DRA (Developmental Reading Assessment) level 40 (fourth grade 1st month) now he is at 50 (fifth to sixth grade). His Lexile level was 637 at the beginning and is now 700. This is a test they do on every book. It goes up the harder the book is, its more of a comprehension test. Fourth grade lexile for on or above target is 650 and fifth grade is 800. So I would think that by the end of third grade he should be at 800. The Stukey library only goes up to 1000.

Writing:
At the beginning of the year the teacher said that his writing was end of third grade writing. She said in order for him to be in Fourth grade writing he really had to improve that there was a huge difference from third to fourth grade. Well now all but one part of his writing is at the end of third grade. She feels that he will surpass this and go into the fourth grade level of writing early closer to the end of the year. He just needs to work on word choice.

Math:
He does wonderful in math and is at the top of the class, he just rushes through the math test and gets them wrong. His teacher says he has a hard time explaining how he gets the answer, he just likes to blurt out the answer that he knows in his head. This is also where he goes wrong on the test he doesn't know how to explain how he got the answer, he tells me "I just know it I'm smart like that."

Science:
He does even better in science. He is always asking about different science topics and checking out books from the library on science.

Homework:
All turned in and correct.

School work:
All turned in and correct.

Missing assignments:
None! So he gets to go on the field trip to the Denver Mint. Only half of the kids in his class gets to go. If a student is missing more than 5 assignments then they don't get to go.

Over all we now know where to help Lyndall improve on at home, to get him a great boost into the fourth grade levels. I think that the conference went well except I was disappointed to see that Lyndall did not have a desk, again. He was stuck at the back counter for talking and disrupting class, again. I still think that they just need to give him more challenging work to keep himself busy.