parent teacher conference

Had Ari's conference today...normally I'd be in a tizzy of anxiety before hand but this time I wasn't...except for maybe on the ride there. It was a good meeting with her 1:1 aide, classroom teacher and special education teacher. I got to ask a lot of questions about little things that I was wondering about and find out how she is doing. Well...here's a shocker...she's actually doing better in math than in reading...who would have guessed that? Holy Cow! She is maintaining the math curriculum pretty independently which is a shocker to me. She mostly needs some prompts here and there and of course her ever looming distraction but other than that independent. Apparently she is further behind in reading than I thought but I see her doing more for me at home than they are asking of her to do in class - so I think I'll be having a conversation with the reading specialist soon just to make sure we are on the same page. I am now thinking about her sentence writing skills and that we have no goals for this on her IEP ...I think I'll be calling them about that one too. I am always shocked when she goes against the "Williams Profile" I always figured math would be harder than reading and she'd never be able to write well....well, that's pretty much what we've always been told... but here we are a few years later and the complete opposite is true...go figure.