Parent Teacher Conferences
We met with Sra. Oliver on Tuesday after school. I was excited and nervous to see his very first report card and to hear her opinion of Jedadiah. I was prepared with paper and pen but didn’t need to use it.
Sra Oliver took her time explaining the report card since it is in Spanish and answered every question that we asked. The conference lasted more than 40 minutes. We were proud of his progress in Spanish and ecstatic with all of the Outstanding (O) grades he received. His only two areas of Needs Time (NT) are writing sentences in Spanish and letter recognition. This last area is ironic because he scored quite high on the Sounds of the Letters Section, which is actually more important to know the sounds of the letters when you begin to write anyway. Final count is 5 outstanding grades (O) and 4 Satisfactory (S). Thanks for the Mouzakis family; we celebrated his success by going to Claim Jumper for dinner.
An interesting point Sra. Oliver made is that Spanish is not taught by individual letter sounds when writing. For example, in English children would learn to spell cat by the sound of C a t and then the word cat would be made. Instead Spanish includes a consonant and a vowel; the vowels are of the utmost importance. For example….gato would be learned ga…to. I think I have been confusing him at home when I try to help him spell words in Spanish.
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