Proud Mama

Monday was Keaton's 1st grade parent teacher conference. His homeroom, math, science, and social studies teacher is Ms. Adam. His language arts teacher is Ms. Clements. I only met with Ms. Adam. She showed me the results of his benchmark tests. He made a 100 on his math test! She was very impressed because the test was very difficult in her opinion. In language arts he scored higher than the requirements in all categories except two. Vocabulary and the writing sample he scored in the normal range of requirement, although these are areas he needs to work on. He is reading above level and she loves his enthusiasm for reading.

She went on to say that he is very helpful and respectful. She wishes she had more kids like him in her class. Needless to say, we are very proud of Keaton and his efforts at school.

Each week he has math, reading, and spelling homework. He usually completes all 4 days of homework on Monday night. (That's because our schedule is so busy--Soccer on Tues, AWANA on Wed, and Small Group on Thur) And he usually does it with minimal help. So far, he has made a 100 on all spelling tests. Ms. Clements grades on spelling and handwriting. Although he has received a 100 on the spelling, he receives an N for handwriting. He gets very upset about this and says Ms. Clements is mean, but I tell him it is just something we need to work on. But really, we all know guys usually do not have great handwriting. And she seems to be picky to me. If the letter is below the red baseline at all, she circles it.

We are very proud of Keaton and all that he has learned. As a reward, I took him to the school book fair and he picked out 3 books for himself (2 football books and a Naruto book-it's similar to Pokemon) and 1 book from the class wish list. It was either the book fair or Bendaroos. He has been begging for Bendaroos every time we see the commercial.