Journal Entry -- Parents Night

As this is a sort of Family Journal I wanted to write about Parents' Night at Kaylees school. I am so proud of my little girl. I went to Parents' Night last night and meet with Kaylee's three teachers. Well, 1 teacher and 2 teacher assistants. They kept RaViNg about Kaylee OvEr and OvEr. It is interesting how as a parent you assume that all children are doing the things which your child is doing academically. But apparently not all children are doing what Kaylee is doing. Keeping in mind that Kaylee is 4 years old (that is just mostly for you in the states where the children dont start school till they are 5 nearly 6 in some cases) Kaylee can write all her numbers at least up to 20. They had her stop at 20. The teacher said that children are not expected to know how to write numbers up to 20 until the end of year 1. Kaylee can count objects up to 100. Apparently counting objects is different then just counting the numbers out loud. I never realised that. But Miss Davies said most kids in her class can't even count objects up to 20. Kaylee knows the difference between a circle and a sphere and a cube and a square. What, you might ask, are the differences? A sphere and a cube are 3D objects. Most children just see them as circles and squares. Kaylee knows all her letters and can write all the letters Uppercase and lowercase. Kaylee is writing full sentences. For example the teachers told her a story, the three little pigs and then asked her to write a sentence about the story, Kaylee wrote: Ve Fre Pigs Saw Ve big bad Wulf. I didn't say she knew how to spell but she spells based on the sounds of the letters so that sentence says Ve (The) Fre (Three) Pigs saw ve (the) big bad wulf (wolf). Plus she remembered all her finger spaces and the full stop. The teacher was amazed that she even knew what a full stop is. If they would have let me bring her work home I would have scanned it in and put it on here but the head teacher wanted to keep it. They also asked me if we plan on moving. Of course I answered yes and then Miss Davies said how disappointed Mr Duffy (the head teacher) will be because he was so excited at the prospect of Kaylee getting to year 6 where they test.  Anyway in short I am so proud of Kaylee.