Well – I had a great conference with my daughter’s teacher – she had very lovely things to say about my little one! And she completely explained the TOPS Reports to me as well as the Accelerated Reader Program – and let me tell you – that program is awesome! I really like it!

They start out the year assessing each child’s reading level – which is really cool to know. My daughter is in the fourth grade and she tested at 5.9 or 5.2 – which would mean either 5th grade, 9th month or 5th grade, 2nd month. We talked about a lot of different numbers – so I got them a little confused, that’s why I am not sure which one – but noone has ever told me exactly where my children’s reading levels are at before – so I thought that was really cool!

I wish I could get my boys tested to see where they would fall.

All in all, it sounds like a great program and she gave me some good ideas for working on comprehension with my daughter at home.

And sometimes getting my kids to do schoolwork, especially extra stuff that the teacher didn’t specifically assign, but, they need to brush up on – can be tough.

But I ran into a blog today that has some great tips for dealing with that – it is Aurelia Williams’ blog, and you can find the post here: Tips to Stop the Homework Battle in Your House.

GO READ A BOOK!