Aly's Settling In

Aly has now been in her new class for three weeks. Last week towards the end of the week she was finally settling in and starting to feel comfortable in her new class. She has made a few second grade friends and seems to really be latching on to the only other first grade girl in her class. She is lucky that the other first grade girl Josie is a total sweetheart! She has been really nice to Aly and really watched out for her. In fact, they started new reading groups together on Monday and had to go to a new second grade teacher. When Aly heard about it she was really scared. Thank goodness for Josie though, she held her hand and the teacher let the two girls sit next to each other.

My hubby pointed out that this could help her in the future. Getting to know the older kids and learning to feel comfortable around them will help her in the future as we are sure they will continue to place her in combination classes due to her academic advances.

Her teacher really is great! I can't believe how much she has taught her in only three weeks! Aly does love her teacher and really wants to please her on a daily basis. She has gone from having messy handwriting, to extremely neat writing. She has learned to write correctly with lowercase letters and upper case for capitals. She is doing great separating words with finger spacing. She is even learning new books she wants to read. She wants to start reading Cam Jansen books which I am excited for her as it will be her first chapter book series that she will read alone. Up until now we were reading to her as she still preferred reading picture books to herself.

So I am hoping things will continue to go well. No mom likes her child crying everyday not wanting to go to school. Wish us luck!