Ok....
Let's start with W...my beloved little "special" second grade preemie. When it comes to writing....things are NOT good. Some of it may be because of him being a lefty but that is not the only reason. His witting is so bad. They have a grading scale on how they are doing. There is A which means Above grade level. There is P (Proficient) which is grade level. There is B which means Basic, and means that they are below grade level. Then there is BB (Below Basic) which is really bad. Well....W is Below Basic on his writing. He is in 2nd grade and isn't witting much better then a Kindergartner 
With his reading he is Basic. He is just barely above BB. Reading is not easy for him. He is reading at half way through a first grade level. I wish it didn't come so hard for him.
Now the good news. The other subject that he has a tutor...Math. He is grade level in math.
Now...on to C. My wonderful little baby, who is now in Kindergarten, Who needs speech help because even his teachers and tutors who see him every week have problems understanding the poor child. And he so patiently repeats himself for them to try to help them understand what he is saying. He is so cute and soo sweet.
He is at grade level when it comes to concepts about print. That is stuff like where you start reading a book and that you read front to back and left to right etc.
He is almost on grade level with writing. He is pretty good at writing 
He is below grade level when it come to letter identification. He can recognize all the letters in his name and a few others but he doesn't know them all yet.
He is Below Basic on everything that has to do with math. Written numbers have no meaning to him. Counting on his fingers and counting stuff on the table is ok but seeing a 1 and knowing it means 1...we are not there yet. Seeing 2 and 4 and knowing that 3 goes in between not there yet. He needs a lot of help with numbers.
So that is how my meetings went today...now, next Thursday evening is Parent Teacher Conference....interested to see how that goes. I know S' will go really well because she is so smart and above grade level in about everything. C's should go pretty good too because his teacher LOVES him. It is W's conference that I am not looking forward to. I don't think his teacher really knows how to deal with a "special child" and is the teacher that sometimes makes me wish that this school district had a special ed class instead of keeping the "special" children in the regular rooms.
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