McKenna

It was a great McKenna day!

It started out with an IEP meeting with her teacher Mrs Mickelson, speech teacher Mrs Daugherty and the Learning Specialist Ms Billie Jo Bandi. I love all these women for all their patience and hard work with my child as well as sooo many others. I appreciate the love they show her and the confidence they have in her, and I LOVE that they rejoice in how far she's come in the last year and rejoice with every mile mark in her learning she reaches.

A brief overview is that McKenna is doing really well. With her testing she did 39 letters correct per minute with 100% accuracy, which was an improvement from last fall when she did 24 letters with 92.3% accuracy. She knows all her site words, sounds out a lot of her words while reading, and after hearing all this I have to admit that I was surprised when they told me that her strength was in Math and numbers. I've always struggled with her in that area, or else she was just pushing me to bring out the M&M's for adding and subtracting. She is NOT a dumb girl. She plays with lots of kids at school, always helps out and stays on task, and never throws a fit. My jaw dropped when I heard this, but I'm thankful she saves those for our house. One day I hope they stop. :) Everyone loves her, all the teachers know her, and I'm very proud o her for all she's conquered within herself.

Tonight as we were chatting and she was laying in bed she got really excited and told me that she did the Monkey Bars today. From start to finish and how she's spent a lot of time practicing and she did it, all the way. Then she told me she jumped down and waited in line to do them again, "and it wasn't hard to wait." That's a big thing for her because it's always hard to wait, and I agree. Then she talked about some bars that are too big and are only for the 3rd graders. She was so excited and cute and I loved that she was opening up and talking about school and how proud she was for accomplishing something she wanted to be able to do.

Way to go McKenna! Keep up the good work!

We Love you and We're so Proud of you!