I had a parent-teacher conference last week at Adam’s school. His teacher said that he is doing wonderfully and she doesn’t have any concerns about his progress at all. She said he behaves well in class, follows directions, and gets along with all of his classmates.

He knows all the letters he needs to know (they test them on upper and lower case and also a few different styles/fonts), can count to 100, and can identify the sight words they have worked on so far.

They use a clothespin behavior chart in his classroom. They start on green and can move up if they are good. He moved up twice that day (he’s one of the three pins on purple). He hasn’t made it up to pink (outstanding) yet, but that’s his goal. They reset the clothes pins each day. If they finish the day on blue, purple, or pink, they get a sticker. Once they get ten stickers they can pick a small prize. He was the first kid in his class to get ten stars and came home with a candy corn shaped eraser a couple of weeks ago.

I’m pretty proud of this kid and I couldn’t have asked for a better first parent-teacher conference.