Parent-Teacher Conferences

Yep! We just had our first, ever!

Parent-Teacher conference was great. We just love Hannah's teacher. She is very positive, very friendly, and very honest. She was looking at Hannah's reading grade (which is given by her reading teacher) and was so puzzled. He gave her a B+ as her overall grade, but in all the breakdown categories she was a high A. So Mrs. Gibney said she'd ask him about that and see what his reasoning was. Hannah was with us, so Mrs. Gibney explained to Hannah what the grades meant and told her what a good job she was doing and that her hard work was really paying off. Oddly enough, she thinks Hannah is rather reserved and not outgoing. Which is the opposite of what everyone at Church thinks. I could see where she'd get that - sometimes Hannah is reserved, but I never think of her that way because she's so much less shy than Brynne. Anyway, we were pleased! So no grounding for Hannah THIS term. :-)

Seeing as how my blog is my best chance to brag...I will tell you some of what we learned at the Conference:
Hannah is reading at a 7th-grade level. She has a reading fluency of 145 words a minute (goal for someone reading at her level is to be at 139 by the end of the year).
She is doing well in math and getting around a B+/A-.
Probably the area she needs to work in most is Grammar (which is mostly due to her hurry).
The teacher said she writes great sentences - very creative. She should be working on making them more advanced (like bigger vocab usage).
Hannah did well in history.
She qualifed for the Honor Roll, which will be presented at an assembly....eventually. I didn't catch when.

She's doing awesome, but being suitable challenged!!! That's what we want.

I was thinking how a lot of times home-schoolers define themselves by having super smart children. It seems to be an easy way to measure against public school. I mean, how else do you know if you're doing a good job. But of course, having the smartest kid in the world is so much less important than having one who's also caring, responsible, and has great faith. All around the board, I think Hannah's doing a great job. Good job, kiddo!