Margaret and I went to the conference. She is EXCELLING at letters, letter sounds, knowing which letter starts a word, etc..
She's doing pretty good at numbers, and she has to work on counting by 10's and knowing all the "teen" numbers. She knows all of these now, though.
She is doing a lot of work that they are expected to know by the end of the year, so that's super great!
Now the bad things: she frequently doesn't listen to the teacher. During carpet time, she doesn't sit in her spot, she pokes other kids, etc... and she gets time-outs for not listening to the teacher. We have the same issues with her at home and we're working on them.
She doesn't know her own strength and gets rough with other kids. She wrestles and hugs too hard, etc...
Ms Sandra said that Maia has a very tender heart, though. If one of her classmates is crying, she is the first to go help them.
She said that Maia doesn't have any close friends in class and that her close friends are the ones she knows from Kids Korner and they play at recess.
She said that Maia hangs out by her a lot, helping her with things and watching her do things. Sometimes, she has to tell Maia to go play, and then she does.
There's a girl names Ava that Maia is very competitive with and the teacher had to put them at separate tables. They would tell each other that their work isn't pretty or they would say "I am done first" and things like that.
She said Maia loves to learn and she puts a lot of effort into her work.
We met with Ms. Brink, who is leading a session that we signed Maia up for about divorced families. They play games in there and talk about dealing with feelings when you live in 2 different houses, etc.. She said Maia is doing really well in there. That's a 5 session "course". Next, we want Maia to take "How to be a better friend".
We met with maia's music teacher and we loved the music room! It's happy and big and they have really cool things in there. The teacher said Maia is great in her class.
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