Gracie is BRILLIANT

We had our first parent/teacher conference today at Gracie's school (FBS).  I was very excited about it.  Mrs. McClure showed us Gracie's progress with coloring, drawing shapes, recognizing numbers and letters and writing her name.  In short, the girl is BRILLIANT!

She mistakes 9's for P's and 6's for 9's, but that's OK.  She also can't draw a triangle, but we can fix that.  Everything else, she aced.

I was concerned about her interaction with the other kids.  Just seeing her interact with kids at the playground or the way she interacts here made me wonder how she is with others at her school.  Sometimes she can be shy or timid and just ignore other kids - away from school.  But Mrs. McClure said that she interacts very well with others.  In fact, she called Gracie a "leader."  That's right.

She said that Gracie has a great attention span.  She likes to sit and listen to books.  She likes her friend Alyssa, but will share with all the other kids when they are playing.  She talks loud, but this is something that she does here, too.

Next year, we are going to send her back to FBS for kindergarten.  Smaller classroom sizes.  She'll go all 5 days of the week from 8-12.  It will be good for her.  And if today's results are any indication of what we can expect next year, when she goes every day, I'm not very worried about how she'll handle the transition.

Kudos to Stephanie, too.  She's worked with Gracie all year, outside of school - both on school-type things and also on behavior and manners.  Mrs. McClure said Gracie was very well behaved, one of her best, she couldn't ask for any better. 

We're raising her right.

Kudos to Mrs. McClure, too.