Eli has come so far in just a few weeks. Pretty much since the first day of school we've been struggling with some less-than-preferred-by-the-teacher behaviors. A few calls, some notes home, a conference, conversations with the counselor and a few sessions of Mommy in the classroom later, I think we're on the right track. The short of it is that there was some sort of breakdown between Eli and his main authority figure at school; they were on two different pages. We seem to have met in the middle and are moving along rather nicely now. I know this will not be the end of it for Eli, as he is a very happy-and-he-knows-it child, but we've had more good than bad in the last two weeks, so we're celebrating!
In addition to that, Eli is progressing very well with his handwriting and recognition of sight words. I've made little flash cards of each sight word he's working on and we keep them down in our 'kitchen' (read: laundry room) so that he can review them with Lehr each morning over breakfast. Eli's pointing them out to me when we see them on errands now, which is cool. And his recitation of the lesson of the day is oh so cool. Monday he came home and recited a whole poem about Christopher Columbus to me. Since I was in the class just a few short hours earlier when his teacher taught it, I knew for a fact that they had learned that poem just that day. So cool.
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