Parent Teacher Conferences

On Tuesday, Oct 16th, I had a parent teacher conference with Audrey and Matthew's teachers. 

Matthew's teacher, Ms. Faires, said the following:

• He likes to play with Justin but sometimes they get rough.  Matthew says that Justin is his best friend but sometimes he talks about Justin punching him in the stomach. 
• There are lots of girls in the class and they like to gang up on Matthew by giving him hugs.  The teacher tells Matthew to stick up for himself and use words in stead of just pouting.
• The class is very advanced with several students learning to read already.  Matthew is learning sight words ("at", "the") but he is not confident about recognizing them.  He knows how to sound out letters but he needs more practice.
• Matthew is a very good student and hardly gets into trouble.  He likes attention for doing good deeds.  He is the teacher's pet.
• He has trouble cutting with the scissors so we need to work on this.  I honestly think it is because he is trying to cut with his right hand and he probably has better coordination with his left hand since he is left handed. 

I told the teacher that Matthew is loving her class.  He is singing the presidents of the United States and the 50 states song.  He knows more than me! 

Audrey's teacher, Mrs. Raiza, said the following:

• Audrey is very smart.  She says lots of words and she even uses sentences.  She can also count to 10.
• Audrey wants to be the first all the time.  She wants to get her diaper changes first, she wants to eat first, she is the first to do new activities.  She likes to receive praise for putting her toys away.
• Audrey does not like getting her hands messy with arts and crafts.  She says "Ahh, Raiza, napkin" 
• Audrey's best friend is Hazel.  Whenever they line up, Audrey will look for Hazel's hand to hold.
• She is also stubborn.  When the teacher was passing out snacks, she only passed out 1 cracker at a time.  Audrey threw it on the floor because she wanted more.  Ms. Raiza did not give her anymore but Hazel gave Audrey her 2 crackers.
• She is doing well with the potty.  We will switch to panties to officially start potty training her in the coming weeks.
• Audrey does not like to share.  She says "Audrey's, mine" and holds the toy.  I think this is normal.
• Audrey likes to talk about Matthew and Rusty and all the pictures on her board at school.

We were able to drop the bottle a couple of weeks ago and Audrey has been doing great without it.  She was only using it at night.  She is advanced for her age because she tries to keep up with her big brother.  I keep forgetting that she is not 2 years old yet because she seems older to me.