Hi there!

Well, I am back although not to 'normality'. My house is a complete mess and we are supposed to give DD's 5th birthday party on sunday....

Apart from that, DD has been two days at the new school and she is liking it
And I really like her new teacher - she wants to meet with me every week or other week until we are all certain that things are on track with DD. She is most positive with the grade skip (from K to 1st grade) and willing to accommodate her with both her vision problems and giftedness. And she wants to help her as well with socialization (DD has no problem on a one-to-one interaction but in a large group she feels threatened).

I feel like a heavy weight has been lifted from my shoulders....

About the vision problems: we went to see an optometrist in Spain and indeed, DD has some deficiencies. She has problems tracking a fixing objects, not severe but enough to give her trouble, and she has problems with accommodation on short distances, which means that after a short while the page she is looking becomes all blurry. She has given me a few exercises to do at home and she told me that in about 4 months I should see improvement. Interestingly enough, DD's accuracy is 100% in the 'bad' eye and 120% in the 'good' one!

And voila'! Happy to be back

nobody cares?

Oh Isa, I am so sorry I don't know how I missed this yesterday! I've been visiting mostly at night to read posts. The threads are so fast moving, it's easy for one to get buried by accident.

I am so happy for you and DD! It's great to have a wonderful teacher. Little C has an awesome teacher too! She skips out of school each day happy as a lark. Quite a change from last year. Since you haven't been around, C also had vision development testing and has some pretty significant deficiencies. She will start therapy in two weeks, we are fortunate insurance pays for it.

You may have noticed the population has changed some! Some regular posters are not as regular! There are some brilliant new characters as well.

Allow me to introduce you:

This is Isa everyone. She has been posting on this board about as long as me, which isn't very long! She has a sweet and intelligent young daughter who had a very bad year last year, most likely due to a poor educational fit, and look at her now!

It looks like both our daughters will have a much better year. So if you are currently struggling with an unhappy child due to a poor fit, know that things can get better! And the best thing about the school year is that when the year is over, the bad fit also ends and your child gets to have a fresh start next year.

As most of you know, it takes some real effort in some cases to advocate at school, but I think worth it.

Wouldn't you agree Isa?

Hi, Isa! I'm glad to hear things are working out well with the teacher. I hope this is the start of a great year for your DD.

Welcome back Isa! I'm probably one of those "regulars" who isn't so terribly regular these days. I haven't been posting as much for several reasons, not the least of which is that I'm trying to pretend our situation is normal, .

You'll probably never drag me away from the test data forum though.

I'm glad things are working so well for your daughter.

Welcome back Isa! I am just returning after a week+ of having a virusy computer. Glad things are going well for your daughter and you are working on the vision issues!

Thank goodness.

Yeah, because so many 9 year olds go to high school, LOL! Normal you're not!

Welcome back Isa and yay for Isa's daughter!

(I'm really lazy in that I usually only see the recent posts that show up over on the right of the screen. Clicking on the individual forums requires so much work you see.)

Buenas tardes, Isa!

Its great that your DD has a good teacher and school that cares about her.

I am the same was as CFK .. on just checking "recent posts"!!

And you don't check your private messages either, I sent you one about a week ago!

Hi Isa, welcome back.

I am so happy to see so many good fits this year.

Ditto that! Glad you're back!

Hi Isa!

I'm one of the newish regulars that hang about. Glad to meet you! And I'm happy that your daughter likes her new school and teacher. It is truly amazing what a good educational fit will do for your sanity and general happiness. I understand the "heavy weight being lifted from your shoulders" comment. It sounds like your daughter's teacher is wonderful. Three cheers!

I have an 8-year-old boy who keeps me on my toes. We have had a crazy week or two at our house, but hopefully it is settling down now. I hope to be a more regular regular here than I have been in the past few days!

ebeth

Hi Isa,
Yup, At most I'm just checking the pretty new 'recent posts' column!

But I'm glad you bumped yourself to the forefront! It's great to hear that your daughter likes her new school and her new teacher. I think it's also a big step forward to have a 'real' visual issue diagnosis that you can share with the school. And a grade skip? Wow!

I think I missed a lot during Summer Vacation!

Bottom Line: Yippee!

Grinity

Welcome back from your world travels Isa! I'm so happy to hear that your daughter's needs are being addressed, and the grade skip went well. Yay!

Hi there,
thanks a lot for the responses

I have not much time lately to post, even though I would like to contribute more ....

In any case, DD still loves the school and she is now doing 'homework' - self-appointed, because where I live there is no homework until age 10 or so.
Tomorrow I have an appointment with Mrs Teacher to see how are things.

Wonderful news and welcome back I'm not on to much lately either

Wow Isa,
Amazing and wonderful! Enjoy!
Grins

DD is still happy about the school even though she has started to realized that there is quite a lot of drilling.

By the way, the entire math curriculum for the first grade is: count until 20 and do sums (without fingers) until 10. Even for NDs, isn't that a little bit.... too little ???
Teacher has assured me that DD will get something more advance but I have not seen it yet... In the meantime, DD has discovered an activity book that my sister handed over from DC and she was doing sums like crazy tonight. If Mrs Teacher does not harry up, DD is going to learn the math curriculum of next year by herself.

In any case, it is nice to see her so enthusiast about learning

I think most first graders can count to 20, but I'm not sure all of them have their math facts down cold, at least not from what I've seen in the classroom.

Glad DD is happy, if she is happy to do the stuff at home, I think that's great.

I don't think either or my girls have learned much if anything in math at school that they hadn't already self-learned prior.
Just seems to be the way it goes. ((shrug))

Does someone know why this topic has so many views????

Call me Para Noia.....

That is weird!

Could be a number of key words that attracts search engines?

Or perhaps you have a cult following and they are so glad you are back?

Just goes to show you, shouldn't post any info that is too personal or identifiable.

Neato

Weird!

I just viewed this thread twice: once to read it, and then once to reply after I saw how many times it had been viewed. That's probably not helping, but even if we ALL did that, it sure doesn't add up to 20,000+ views!