At Ridgeway, the student, parents, and teacher all meet together for conferences. Our family also had siblings in attendance. We met with James's teacher first, and had a perfectly medium conference! Yay! Mainly, he needs to work on being more patient and kind with his classmates, but he's come a long way since last year. He got "satisfactory" in every subject (that's the best) and "James is a pleasure to have in class" from his math teacher - which I'm sure is a canned response, but we'll take what we can get! The other big topic of conversation was that James has moved away from his table/group and is sitting at a desk by himself. His teacher confirmed that this was not a punishment, but rather James came up with the idea/it's his preference.
We met with Amelie's teacher next, and her special ed teacher sat in, and they all had good things to say. She's been reading some when she's supposed to be working, but she's shown a lot of improvement in writing. She got "satisfactory" in everything but academic progress in writing, which is "nearing proficiency" and math facts which "need improvement." She's using the iPad to write, which makes her work quite a bit easier to read. Her classroom teacher recently suggested that she go get the iPad to help and she said that she was afraid she'd get distracted and open the reading app, so the school put a guided access on to keep her in the writing app when it's writing time. The occupational therapist said that Amelie was a rule-follower and her classroom teacher added, "except when it comes to reading!" Which is not the worst thing.
We went to the book fair last. I had $20 in cash and they spent every penny.
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