Parent Conferences - Kayda

This is a little late in posting (March 27th)...The preschool does parent conferences for the kids in the "frog" class, which means we got to go in and hear Ms. Brenda talk all about Kayda and what she can do.  According to her teacher she never has to ask Kayda to pay attention, she is very eager to learn and can be found front and center in circle time with her eyes glued to the teacher.  She is very quick and it is the teacher's opinion that Kayda would test into the "highly qualified" classes, should we choose to take that route. 

Kayda's report card shows that she has the highest score (regularly) on EVERYTHING they tested.  These are the areas.

• Social and Emotional growth: 
• Participates in circle, art/craft, music and dramatic
• Plays cooperatively with others
• Responds agreeably to adult suggestions and/or requests
• Can share adult attention
• Shows adjustment to school routines
• Expresses emotions in appropriate ways
• Is respectful and courteous
• Is learning to work independently
• Physical Development:
• Loco-motor skills: crawl, walk, run, jump
• Ball skills: bounce, catch, throw
• Can use scissors to cut: straight, curved and zigzagged line
• Is learning to hold a crayon correctly
• Cognitive Development/Learning readiness growth:
• Adequate attention span
• Can identify colors and simple shapes
• Can identify most letters
• Can identify most sounds
• Can identify numerals 50-100
• Counts aloud from memory 1-100
• Recognizes own name in print
• Writes name correctly
• Can recall 9-1-1 as emergency
• Understands and follows simple directions on first request
• Comments: "Kayda is such a bright little girls who LOVES to learn!  She is a friend to everyone, and I have so enjoyed being her teacher!! Have fun in kindergarten Kayda!"

They included some activities that they did to "test" some of the things listed above.  She was able to read ALL of the color words, knows all her vowels and both of their sounds, knows all the days of the week, most of the months, can read and tell you the sounds for all the letters (upper and lower case).  Can sight read and/or sound out many three letter words.  Can recognize two digit numbers, can add even when written as numbers not as dots (teacher was very impressed that Kayda used her fingers to figure it out).   She self corrects, if she colors one too many or circles the wrong answer she crosses out the wrong one.  They played a game where the teacher said got to box number ___ and put your favorite color, or draw and animal and write the letter it starts with, Kayda filled all 12 in appropriately.   Ms. Brenda also informed up that Kayda is a no-nonsense kind of girl.  She'll play with the girls but if there is too much "girl drama" she'll just up and leave to go play with the boys instead!