progress report

We had the parents-teacher conference yesterday. For the special subjects, the marking codes are: + - shows strength; P - participates; and / - more participation needed. For Art & Music, she got a + and for PE & Host Nation, she got a P.

Her end-of-the-quarter worksheet consisted of listening comprehension, logical reasoning, math, identification of colors, upper case & lower case letters, numbers, phonics, & patterns.

Listening comprehension: She was told a story and she had to re-tell the story. There were 8 facts in the story and she got all 8 facts right and in the right sequence. Hurray! Ms. D said that while she was retelling the story, she'd pause after every fact and think what comes next.

Logical Reasoning: Identify the object that does not belong to the group and state why it doesn't belong. This is fun. There were 10 groups. The first four, her reasoning was simple, e.g. it's not a fruit. Later on, it was "It's a horse, these are dogs." And then, instead of just stating the obvious reason why it's different, she saw other details that made it different. The mittens, hat, and scarf are green and the boots is yellow, she said, not a thing to wear, you walk with it. The other throw pillows were round, she said, it doesn't have a dot (button). She was the only who noticed this.

Identification: She identified most although I think she could do better. She only counted up to 22, I know she could count up to 100. She identified 101 though. For Phonics, none at this time, which surprised me since I've heard her doing it. The reason why it was none at this time was she didn't know what Phonics is. Hahahaha.

Patterns: There were 3 patters, AB, ABC, & AABB. She identified AB and ABC. Then she was asked to draw a pattern and identify it. Her pattern was "B A B A B A" and called it an AB pattern.

Math: First she drew a family portrait, then Ms D asked her questions about the portrait. The portrait consisted of me, her, her sister, Kaysa, & her big sister. Dad wasn't in the portrait cause he went to the grocery. Ahahaha.

She has a journal at school. What they do is, Ms. D tells them a story then they draw something from the story and write a caption. Ms. D helps them with the other words. Ms. D commented that she is such an artist. Her pictures are very detailed. There was this one picture she drew of herself painting. In front of her was an easel and it wasn't a blank canvass, she drew something in the canvass, too. She has paints in the easel, too.