Progress Report

We got Parker's first progress report of the year today. She will get 2 more, in February and May.
Here's what it said:
Mastered Skills:
Making Plans/collaborative play
pretending
drawing, painting
music, movement
sorting, matching, identifying patterns.
Emerging Skills:
Reading
Writing
Number recognition
Comments and Suggestions for home:
"Parker loves to participate. She is a pleasure to teach and very popular with her friends. Parker loves to read. Read to her daily focusing on comprehension and sequence. Let her follow your finger for direction. Parker is writing more and more every day. Let her write your family's names and start wriging her last name. Encourage her to write simple notes to her friends. She enjoys this activity.
Parker can count to 30 by rote. Put a calendar at her level on your fridge. She enjoys counting and this will help her with number recognition.

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My comments:
If any of the teacher blog readers out there have a link to a fun calendar I can print to hang on the fridge, send it our way. We accept PDF's too. I assume I'm supposed to count days until this or that with her? She really does love counting. "Mommy, listen to me count to 30!" is a favorite parlor trick. Of hers.

I was a little surprised to learn that Parker couldn't identify all her numbers....although that's not really something we do much. We've been playing Go Fish quite a bit, and she seems to know everything except 12 and 13 and is a little iffy on 6 and 9. My cards only go up to 13 though. She knows nearly all the lower case letters too....we also have Go Fish cards for that. She really enjoys card games...we even have a rummy type game where you do sequence with pictures (she needs some work on sequence and comprehension too). Even when we put together puzzles, she like to make that into a card/domino type game by dividing up the pieces and taking turns trying to 'play' your puzzle piece.
Here she is doing 'homework'. Her teacher frequently sends home little activities like this, where match the uppercase letters on plastic caps to the lower case letters on the pumpkins. We also have little reading phonics books coming home every couple days. Lots of homework for a preschooler! She enjoys all of it though, mainly because it is usually one on one attention from me or Bob.
She really does love writing, although she is very resistant to the idea of writing 'notes' to her friends at school like the teacher suggests. Not sure why. She did write "gum" on my grocery list yesterday, and also another hyphenated bathroom type word that isn't really blog material.
Our home is covered in post-it notes, and the tips of all my markers and smooshed, but she's having fun and learning, and there are lots more office supplies where those came from.