Back to work and parent teacher conference

OK my vacation is officially over, I headed back to work today. But 1st thing this morning we went to Bug's final Parent/ teacher conference of the year. I know we school-at-home, but Bug goes 1 day a week to a school with other homeschoolers. The meeting was interesting, no real surprises, he doesn't enjoy writing and does as little of it as he can get away with. He is very sweet and a lot of his answers will reflect that. The most interesting (and frustrating) part was his reading assessment.

His teacher forgot she gave him one so she did one in front of me, the results ended up so ambiguous that it was just frustrating. Bug gets in a hurry when he is reading and skips words, but the words he skips are all words he can read and they don't change the meaning of the sentences. Anyways the assessment she gave him while I was there said he is at a late 1st grade level due to his skipping words, he only misread about 5 words, not counting proper names (which don't count against him). Then she realized she had already given him the assessment, which she had used a harder reading level book for (an L vs a J) and he scored even better with fewer mistakes and a middle 2nd grade level. Honestly she probably could have picked a level N or O and he would have scored the same and been rated at the end of the 2nd grade. Oh well, so much for assessments.

Anyways my 1st day back at work went well, I was busy which is always nice, makes the day go quick.

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