Just had parent-teacher conferences with Deidra's teacher...

Abba, thanks so much for helping Deidra with doing so well in school and I continue to pray for her safety and protection at school.

Conferences went really well. Mrs. Morgan thinks that she is one sweet and smart little girl. She said that she prefers to be a leader, but that's a good thing. She's writing uppercase and lowercase letters properly (all but 3...she writes her Ws with one extra leg...and her Ss she kind of slants in there and her j's she makes backwards). She said they aren't really expected to know all that until the end of the school year, but it's great that Deidra already knows most of hers. She said that she's learned a lot of the frequent reader words that they're not expected to know until the end of the year, so she thinks that Deidra is really going to take off with reading before too long. She's already been reading her level I books very very well. She thinks Deidra will be reading chapter books before too long on her own and they're not expected to do those before the end of the year and early first grade. She said that her math teacher Mrs. Black thinks that she's very smart as well and she's thriving in school. She's got very good classroom conduct and is very outgoing. She loves to participate and is a little competitive with the other kids about what she knows. She wants to keep up with the boys who are adding 3 sets of numbers together and she gets mad when they know the answers before she does. lol She said that anyone that she's around just loves her, so she's really doing great. She gave me some recommendations on books to read with her (Dick and Jane and Dr. Seuss and any of the early reader level 2s at Barnes and Noble) and flashcards to make up to get her to that next level of reading and she said that we have nothing to worry about. She's doing wonderfully. I was very proud to know that she's mastered some things that aren't expected of her until the end of the school year already. We'll keep working with her too and take her as far as she'll let us take her. :-)