Pssht.
I always feel a bit awkward at these things. I met Mrs. Sprinkle back in August at the start of the year. She seemed nice enough, happy, mostly organized, somewhat divided attention that is necessary for managing 20 first graders. I always figure that if Tamlin's getting into trouble, then we would here about it via note, phone, or email. From our end, we make sure he does his homework and practices for his tests, and try to remember to send the reading log in daily.
I'm amazed at how well Tam's reading...much more than I remember being able to do at this age. And math comes pretty easy to him, so much that Brian and I are constantly pushing him to do more. Then I'm always filling his head with science facts. But we don't know other parents of first graders, so we don't have any gauge on where he is compared to his peers. (And should we be worried?)
So we sit down with the teacher at the little person desk, with our knees up to our eyes, and smile at Tam's teacher. We have 15 minutes to here her impression of our little dude and to bring us up to speed on how he is doing in class.
Results?
Okay...mini-brag here: He's doing great, really great, like really, really great. At our school (our public school), there are three teachers that split their classes up according to how the kids are doing on that subject. Tamlin sees the the enrichment teachers for both math and reading. His scores place him well above the benchmarks for his grade and he puts him on par with second grade mid-year. I'm really glad that they are able to keep pushing him by doing this split teaching technique and he's not getting board.
Way to go kid!
I totally blame all the reading we do, along with all the experience we do together as a family, and that we don't spend all day on electronics.
But what to say to the teacher when you get a report like this? Can't act smug, slightly weird to act proud, don't want to seem surprised, just say "glad he's doing well; he likes school and we like teaching him at home too."
Great job, Tamlin. Hugs all around and keep up the good work!
