First Grade

Yesterday was our Student-Educator-Parent (SEP) meeting with RVC's first grade teacher. I assume it will be our final for the year, as we are beginning the third term, but we'll see. It's been a good year; sitting in that meeting and hearing the good things Miss Christensen had to say about our daughter was fun for me and for TEC, who met us at the school. We saw the progress she has made in math and learned that she is doing even better in reading--currently at a 3rd grade level (yes, I'm bragging...because I'm the mom:)). I loved seeing how much more confident she seemed at this meeting than she was earlier in the year, despite the fact that she couldn't keep her hands out of her mouth as she played with the empty spot where her front tooth used to be (we had pulled it from it's remaining threads the day before). RVC pointed out her grass seeds growing in the window, her desk--it was clear that Miss Christensen had had the kids clean out their desks for this purpose--and her various works of art out in the hallway. I'm proud of that girl.

I started a little collection a while back of some things RVC has done in first grade.

The first few are just some things that made me smile.
Like when she started learning how to use "less than" and "greater than" symbols.

And when she wrote this number story on a homework assignment.  (An American Girl Doll Catalog had just come in the mail).

And, here are a couple of drawings she made at home, inspired by this same catalog (I finally managed to get that thing into the recycling bin--both RVC and SCC kept pulling it out and ooh-ing and aahh-ing over each page.)

Here's a poem and accompanying picture RVC worked on in the computer lab at school.

One of then neatest things they did in class this year was to write a personal narrative.  RVC hadn't said anything about it, and so I was surprised to see this come home.  I love it.

I guess RVC seemed to like the idea of being an author.  Here's another thing I found lying around--something she had quietly worked on at home one day.  I was just about to toss it with a bunch of other pieces of scratch paper before I realized what it was.  Not bad, I say...a few spelling errors, but that's what editors are for, right?  I especially like her "About the Author" page.  And how about her globally-concious illustrations...Jamaica, Idaho, Bethlehem?