Parent teacher conference

Well, conferences have past and Faith sure is doing well; as expected. She is reading at a level 20 which is typical for the beginning of second grade. Although this represents her reading level is does not represent her reading ability. Faith often reads from a higher level due to wanting to be challenged on reading but struggles to understand some of the words used. Her favorite stories are about puppies, fairies, or weird topics like Vampires don't need a computer or Werewolves don't go to school. She doesn't really like the endings to these types of stories. They leave her hanging and don't answer the question at hand....is the character a vampire or not. She likes it cut and dry with a set ending. Faith will read in her bed for 45 minutes or more each night until she is forced to go to sleep. She loves her books. Her teacher says that if they were to come to class and be told that they were going to sit and read all day, Faith would be so happy to spend her day that way. Her teacher told us that she has a great ability to understand math and explain her thought process on finding the answers to problems. She got all of her questions right on her evaluation test which tested her on place value, adding, subtracting, writing digits from the written number, writing new numbers from three numbers (ex. 5,7,1= 571, 157, 715). She has mastered 66 out of 100 addition problems on her five minute timed test. This was several weeks ago and as of last week she said she got through 80 or more problems. She moves on to subtraction next. Over Christmas break we are going to start working on times tables again so she is ahead of that when they are introduced in the spring. Faith continues to struggle in writing. She just doesn't like it or get excited about it. She is working on brainstorming characters, plots, and settings currently and will move forward as she works towards writing a story. Her current story is based on a place called Cupcake land. I can only guess what this story is going to bring about. Her spelling is good. She flip flops between regular spelling lists and challenge list each week. This last week she had the words spaghetti, confetti, exceed, freedom, brief, and other words that have a e sound in them. She got them all right. Faith really makes Bud and I proud. She is really going to grow up to do something special.