School Conference

It is still weird to me that I am attending school conferences, even if it is just preschool. Seriously, where did my baby go? He grew up into a little boy...crazy!! Last week I had my observation and meeting for Alec. His school starts at 8:30 a.m. and ends at 11:30 a.m. For the observation and conference Mrs. Lindsay had me arrive around 10:00 and I got to sit in a closet off of Alec's classroom and watch the kids through a two way mirror. It was so interesting watching Alec in his school element without him knowing I was there. He is a very smart guy and a rule follower. The one thing that happened that made me laugh was when they were all sitting down for snack. All the kids were washing their hands and finding their seats and Alec was one of the last to sit down. As he turned around to find a seat for himself I hear a little girl say, "Alec, sit here!" and so my little guy of course goes and does what the little girl asks and sits down next to her. I am thinking he does not mind being bossed around by the girls! In my husbands family they would call that a "muckracuckus"...meaning a "wet chicken."

After observing for a while Mrs. Lindsay came in to chat with me. She had done a kindergarten assessment on him and went over the results with me. What she said is that according to her test he is "probably" ready for kindergarten and would do okay if we were to put him next year. She did also say, however, that if we did decide to keep him back one year that he would really soar. That to me is a no brainer, I want my kid to soar. We had already decided that we were going to hold Alec one more year but it was good to hear one more opinion of his progress to make us feel like we made the right decision.

Alec got very good reviews from Mrs. Lindsay. She commented that she loves the interesting and insightful conversations that she has with him. The one area that she did have a critique in was with music and movement. She said that for some reason Alec absolutely does not want to participate in music and movement AT ALL. She said it is not defiance on his part, he just does not want to do it. This really did not surprise me but it was certainly still amusing to hear.

I am so proud of Alec and the progress that he is making this year at school. We have signed him up for the 5 mornings class next year at the preschool. Hopefully this extra year will just give him the extra time he needs to refine is fine motor skills and maturity so that by the time he gets to kindergarten he will, as Mrs. Lindsay put it, SOAR!!