Kate gets her first A honor roll March 17, 2009
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I am so excited that Kate got her first A honor roll. I knew she could do it but I’m not sure she knew she could. I’m such a strong believer that truly believing you can do it is one of the biggest factors in success with grades – this and talking to the teacher. I believe teachers work harder with the students that they think care more. It took me until my second semester of college to get straight A’s – partly because I felt it was more important to my father than it was to me, and partly because the belief that it was more important to my father led to the bad grades which led to me believing that I really was dumb.
One thing that drives me crazy is when I asked the kids “how did you do on your test” and they say – “I don’t know, I haven’t received my grade yet.” So I say to them, I’m not asking you your grade, I’m asking how you think you did. To them, I may as well be speaking a foreign language. They can’t possibly fathom how I can expect them to have a magic ball and figure out ahead of time what their grade is going to be. They think I’m mad to ask them to predict the future. But I’m really asking them to tell me about the past. When they saw the questions, they were either certain of the answers, had absolutely no idea, or were somewhere inbetween. Perhaps I will spell it out to them this way and see what they say.
I’m so proud of Kate. I hope she keeps doing this.
Kate wins the Terrific Kid award sponsored by Kiwanis Club December 13, 2008
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We received this beautiful certificate/invitation a week ago stating that Kate was named the Terriffic Kid in her class and she was invited to a terrific kid awards banquet at the school one week later. The parents were invited and there was a wonderful buffet breakfast. Only one child was chosen from each class based on citizenship, academic improvement or one other category which I can’t remember. The children were chosen mostly by their teacher but some were peer selected. When the awards were given, the school counselor read what the teacher or children wrote. The kids were given a certificate, a button to wear, and a packet with other items including a couple gift certificates for pizza and ice cream.
Kate gets A/B Honor Roll December 2, 2008
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This is only the 2nd marking period that Kate has been eligible for letter grades vs. 1’s, 2’s, etc. It was scary to see what she got the first time because she takes everything so seriously and she hadn’t had letter grades before. I didn’t want her to have less than desired grades and be very upset. She ended up with 2c’s and 2b’s. So this time around, I helped her a lot more on her work but didn’t make any big deal about grades. She got 1-A and 3 B’s. Here’s a picture of her calling her Daddy to tell him about her honor roll grades:
Kate (8) explains her spelling mistakes excusing handwriting November 20, 2008
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Kate now has to submit a written correction for any mistakes she makes on her spelling tests. I noticed this when I checked over this last night. It’s hilarious.
