Parents, a princess and a pirate

First report card

So, today Kylie brought her very first report card home. What an exciting event. But lets start at the beginning.
Kylie had a Fall party at her school today. Being the room mom, I needed to be there to help out with a few other parents/grandparents. It was so interesting to see Kylie's class and teacher in action. I was impressed by Mrs. Moore, she kept 25 kids under control during a fun party. We made 2 crafts, one was a spider hat and one was a pumpkin. (pics posted later). I was in charge of Kylie's table and there were 4 other kids at her table. They were all pretty well behaved so that helped. They also got suckers, juice and cookies. It was a really fun party and I look forward to helping with more.
I went into work after the party and got home about 4:30. I was pretty anxious to see Kylie's report card since Mrs. Moore passed them out when I was in the classroom so I had been wondering what it said all afternoon! Kylie wanted to open it up before I got home but Sharon told her to wait until I got home to look at it.
It's much different then when I was young. First off, it's 6 pages long. You have to actually read the directions to know what it says. The main part of it had ratings 1-3, one meaning needs improvement, 2 is emerging, 3 is consistently demonstrates. Kylie got all 3's! But most of the skills weren't difficult for her - like recognizes and writes first name legibly - 3. Says rhyming words in response to an oral prompt - 3. Writes upper and lowercase letters correctly - 3 (that was a good one because she has been working on that a lot). One page was just blank, the teacher would mark things that the student had not mastered yet like recognizing numbers, shapes, letters.
Next page listed behaviors that promote learning, personal and social growth. Kylie's said "shows positive attitude toward learning; completes and returns homework, activites and other materials; works, plays and shares cooperatively with others; accepts and follows school rules.
Page 4 was where Mrs. Moore wrote specifically about Kylie "Kylie is a pleasure to have in class. She is a leader as well as a wonderful role model to the other students. She is always willing to help me in the classroom. I am proud of Kylie's work this nine weeks. Continue to practice high frequency words, writing sentences and stories, and reading at home. Keep up the hard work, Kylie!" :-)
Next page was a test page that listed probably 60 words that she has learned or is supposed to learn to read. High frequency words like can, we, the, and, little, she.... as well as color and number words. She did pretty good but missed 10. Some were words that she shouldn't have missed like cat, he and but. And she re-read the test this evening and only missed one word. So we talked about how important it is to take your time on a test and work hard to get each question right.
The last page was the most confusing. I won't get into it but it was another assessment that shows that Kylie is about 3 month ahead of schedule for the testing so we're happy about that.
This is long and drawn out but it's good to go over it and keep track of it. We're so pleased that Kylie is loving school. She has fall break the next 2 days but I know she'll be ready to go back to school on Monday. We love her so much!