Ryan, Kayson and I had his first conference for 2nd grade last night. We met his long-term sub, Mrs. Van Gelder. Mrs. Van Meter is still on maternity leave.
Mrs. Van Gelder seems very nice. She let Kayson do a little reading to us, letting us know some of the things he's been working on, etc. One of the things was expressing how well he's doing on certain things - like: "sharing thoughts with others in the class". He had marked that as 'needed to work on', but Mrs. Van Gelder expressed that she thought he does a great job at that - he's always raising his hand and wanting to share.
She let us know that Kayson is a very good reader, and does a great job at explaining the story and being able to give facts about the story, and the people. He's also very descriptive when relaying the story. She also agrees with us, that he shows a lot of interest in the social studies and science subjects.
Like last year, we do have one 'negative' that Kayson needs to work on --- his talking! He's just a little social guy, and loves his friends. Mrs. Van Gelder said that she does need to distract him a couple times in the mornings to get him on track and not chatting. She said he's not the only kid that does this. So we will be reminding Kayson to 'put first things first'. :)
She didn't provide any of the FAST scores, which I completely spaced off until we were gone... but regardless, we believe K is doing well.
UPDATE - I ended up asking the teacher regarding the FAST score: Kayson's is 483.
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