Evemomma-
My plan is this (just spun nicer as my dh can do well): did she achieve what she had hoped from the meeting? That he was not completely honest with her. During the question of learning, she prefaced the question with I know when you're in independent study, it's review; but do you learn when you're in my group? So, why does the work need to be a review in independent study? Can I send in some worksheets he can work on that are topic relevant?
I did ask if he can start taking AR tests on the books he reads, which she said yes- during independent reading. I am also thinking of asking if writing a 2-3 sentence summary or picture with written description summary would be something he could do if he was done. However, the teacher reprimanded him for rushing through work "as if it were a race", thus the work was more messy. Maybe if the worked asked wasn't sooo simple, he would work harder?
One funny thing is the teacher keeps telling me everything she's doing in math to differentiate- now add/ subtract 2 2 digit numbers. Ok- great. But why can't she appropriately differentiate language arts? Everything I've read around here says usually that's the easy part to get. My ds isn't even "mathy". His strength is language- both English and Spanish.
I also plan to tell her some of the latest comments he tells me from school. Like "all the book I read at school are so small and easy". I did request repeating the Star test. Teacher said yes in 2 weeks (next week is book fair).
We'll see. I'm sure this teacher hates me, but I plan to continue on. Btw, she mentioned that she knew I emailed with the gifted coordinator (who told me to talk to teacher and teacher told me to talk to gc). I said yes that I thought it was funny they both told me to talk to the other. I kind of dropped it, because my ds was right next to me!
Anything else I should say?
