First ever conferences

[[Today I am thankful for my super smart pre-schooler]]

This afternoon I had conferences with Porter's teacher.  I knew it wasn't going to be anything "big"... after all, it is just preschool.  But, it was nice to have one-on-one time to talk about Porter's progress.  They were assessed with a Kindergarten assessment (I can't remember what it was called... started with a B I think??) so she told me to take any shortcomings with a grain of salt.  

• He knows and can identify all 26 (capital) letters of the alphabet.  He can recognize about 1/3 of the lowercase.  
• He knows his name, address, all his colors and can count to 16.
• He writes with his right hand.  This was interesting as at home he seems to go back and forth.  
• He was to draw shapes (an X, square, triangle, circle and diamond).  He was able to draw an X and the rest, not so well.  
• He did pretty good cutting out shapes (square and circle).  
• He's very sensitive.  He is typically the first to let the teacher know when someone is upset or not happy.
• He needs to work on sharing, especially the cars. 
• I LOVED seeing his self portrait and name.  Its very, very uhm, preschoolish?  I love it.  I can't wait to see the progress he makes by the end of the year!

All in all, he has made SO much progress in just 9 short weeks.  This summer his writing/coloring/drawing consisted of nothing more than a couple lines of scribbles on a paper.  Now he's attempting to draw THINGS, and writing his name (although very sick-and-circle like).  I put a little desk in his room, with a shelf above it and a little desk light.  I bought him a drawing pad and Twistables, and he just goes to town drawing things.  It is so amazing to watch him blossom so quickly!