First Progress Report

Mrs. Hernandez sent home a Complimentary Report to Parents this week to let us know that Kyle is doing "quite well in all areas". I especially like the note at the bottom telling us that he needs to stay calm and that mistakes are okay. I guess Mrs. Hernandez never met Kyle's Grandma. If she knew Donna she'd realize that getting it right is just in his blood - mistakes just will not do... :-)

Joking aside, he does take his work pretty seriously and he tends to get pretty frustrated when he can't get something right. He will often erase and re-do, or completely start over until it's right. We try to tell him it's good enough, but he won't have it.

On another school related note - part of his homework is to study and recognize sight words. Many of these are words that don't 'sound out' very well, and so the kids basically have to memorize them. Starting during the first week of school, the teacher sent home a sheet of words that we cut out and used as flash cards so he could practice them. Each sheet of words is color coded with a color of the rainbow, starting with red. This week he was able to read all of his blue words, which means he's on purple - the last color of the rainbow. There are only 4 other kids in his class that are all the way to purple already!