Leah's first report

Well we had our first parent-teacher interview in regards to Leah yesterday, and she is doing really well. We are pleased. Although there wasn't any big surprises in there, it was still nice to hear she is on a good track. Leah doesn't seem to have the inclination towards excelling at education like Emerson does, but she will do well enough and we think will excel in other areas.

Here's her report:
ORAL LANGUAGE - excellent control and speaks clearly (goal: to develop her confidence when speaking to a larger group)
READING - is secure, understands some punctuation (goal: recognise more punctuation and changes in word/letter order)
ALPHABET - 43 out of 54 upper and lower case letters (goal: to recognise all the letters)
WORD RECOGNITION - 4 from a list of given words (goal: to recognise more basic words)
WRITING - right handed, can write 6 basic words and family names independantly (goal: to increase her basic words)
MATHS - can form sets up to 12, rote count to 39, solve early addition and subtraction problems (goal: recognise numbers to 20 and count backwards from 20)
GENERAL - Is more confident and settled, is friendly and cheerful who is keen to learn and to try new things. She enjoys the company of her class mates and she works well in a group.

The goals are good to know, it gives us direction for helping her at home and with her homework. Already we note how she has a very good memory and does a lot of her homework from memory and barely learns the actual words/text. Teach her once and instead of learning it she just memorizes it and then she's done. So we have to make her go back and really try to learn her words or books.
Mind you, for only being at school 4 weeks now she's doing pretty darn good. If you ask her about school though, she'll only ever tell you about what happened at playtime or lunchtime, nothing at all to do with the classroom.
We walked Emerson to her class and to the car for about 2 terms when she started school, but Leah asked us to wait at the gate from week 2. Even if we go to her room anyway, she just runs off to play or find Emerson barely bothering to show us anything in her classroom. We definitely don't feel like we are as up to date with Leah's learning as we were with Emmy's but that just goes to show how individual our children are. Em loved to show her stuff off, Leah couldn't care less. She did ask us to watch her swimming demonstration though, so we did. Tomorrow is Emerson's.
I think we have Emerson's parent-teacher interview in a couple weeks.