This past Wednesday I had Emily's First Grade parent/teacher conference with Mrs. Jackson:
Emily is doing really well in school. Her teacher said she needed to work on allowing herself to make mistakes. Her need for perfection slows her down. This is the exact same thing that her kindergarten teacher said last year. She is reading on a third grade level and scored high in reading comprehension. Her artwork to go along with her story telling are really good. They were given a task of choosing a topic for a report based on winter animals. They had to fill out a worksheet where they chose the topic and surrounding thoughts that they wanted to include in their report. They also had to illustrate it. They were basically doing a research paper for the First Grade! They were given the choice to follow along with the teacher and do one together as a group, or they could do one on their own. Emily chose to do one on her own! Emily chose to write about the harp seal. Mrs. Jackson showed me her work so far on the project. I was very impressed. Now to get her to loosen up a bit and allow herself to make mistakes while she works . . . it will be hard since both her parents are uptight people : )
On Saturday, Emily had a birthday party with a friend from school. It was at a horse farm:
This weekend Joe and I took turns seeing a movie with our friends April and Jason. April and I went out on Friday night to see Gravity and Joe and Jason went out Saturday night to see Ender's Game. A good time with friends with free babysitting . . .
Saturday night while Joe was out, the girls and I went to Alexa's house for the girls to play, eat pizza, and watch a movie together. They also wanted to get facials:
We also got our church newsletter in the mail and guess who was on the front cover:
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