Parent-Teacher Conference

Yesterday was a long day of meetings, starting with Langston's parent teacher at 7:30 AM.  Sheesh!

Langston's teacher, Teacher Genie, gave him a glowing report.  I'm writing this here, not to publicize how proud a mama I am, but because this is the closest thing he has for a baby book right now, so I want to keep a record for my own memory.

Teacher Genie said Langston listens well in class, follows directions, shows confidence when speaking to adults and confidence when interacting with the other students.  He is also very imaginative and creative.  She said he has started several projects like "building" a bed from the blocks, going a little at a time and measuring his body next to it until he had enough blocks to lay down on it, then did so and declared "this is my bed!"  These projects then, other children try to replicate and do the same thing.

He likes to help clean-up after lunch, even going to the kitchen and asking the cook, Roberto for a wash rag to wipe the tables.  He's also created a new lunch clean-up job, claiming himself the keeper of the cups after one teacher told him not to stack the cups higher than two together.  He then watched the other children stack the cups and helped organize them and declared, that that was his job.   Since then the other children have all wanted to do the cup job.

So, he's creative and he's a leader and he's willing to try new things.  She gave us some of his artwork and his stories where he's thinking outside of the box in a way the other children might not be, like creating is paper caterpillar with the circles clumped together at the bottom (instead of straight across the page) and saying, "the caterpillar is on his back."

He's also getting stronger.  When he first got there, he tried the monkey bars (hanging underneath and going across) but couldn't do it and was told by the other teachers, after a bad fall, to not to it until he could go across safely.  Now, 7 months later, he climbs across the top!

So, we're pretty proud of him and glad to hear he's really enjoying his "new" school.