Hionis Kids

Parent Teacher Conferences/First report card


Noah just had parent teacher conferences last week. She stated to Chris and I that Noah was doing very well.
He is at a 2nd grade reading level right now so she is taking him and another boy aside to help them develop
more skills when reading and not just reading the words. She said that his recognition of words is very good and
that when spelling starts after Thanksgiving he will be getting the Challenge word list as well as the regular words.
You know I am going to be an awesome speller again in a couple of years between him and Naomi and all these Challenge
words. On all their testing that they did in the beginning of the year, Noah's score over all was a 98%. So needless to say mom
and dad are very proud. He has really grown up between last year and this year. She said that Noah is really becoming a
leader in the class and is a great friend to all the kids. He shows that he cares for them all. Which is nice to hear about a boy.
So really the only thing that Noah really needed to work on was his writing skills she said that he is a typical boy wanting to hurry
through it to get to the next thing.


Naomi had parent teacher conferences at the beginning of Oct. and her teacher said that she is doing very well.
She has been given the challenge list for spelling every week since school started. She has gotten 100% on every spelling
test except one since school started. The only thing that her teacher wanted her to work on is talking to much in class.
But he said that she often finishes her work before others and then gets bored so she talks. She was also picked by
her class to be a peer mediator, so she got to spend a whole day in training so now if there is conflict between some
of her peers she is able to sit in and mediate. She was also moved to the Gifted and Talented reading program 2 days
a week. So that was very special. So I have 2 readers on my hands so far. Which I find to be excellent since their mom
does not like to read at all.

So on to the report cards. They both got them within a day of each other last week. Noah's was really well. His school still
grades with O's, S+, S, I, and N's. So he got 2 S+'s and 4 S's. Which is really great. Reading of coarse was an S+ and so was
Oral Communication. With a lot of sub categories of a + which stands for area's of strength. Naomi's report card of coarse
was great also. She got 2 A's and 2 A+'s. Wit all of the other sub categories all meeting expectations and also consistently strong.
So to say the least these kids have really taken to school. I am glad that they enjoy it right now and hopefully that continues. I have
been very lucky so far to have had almost all great teachers for the kids so that helps a ton.

Well I am pretty sure you are all bored now with my bragging. Sorry if some words are misspelled. I haven't learned all the challenge
words yet (smile).