Finally I got a chance to talk to Dakota’s teacher. I called Monday but they didn’t start till yesterday. They had meetings all day yesterday and today she is in her room all day. Tonight is Orientation but I won’t be going as I will be at a different school working with Girl Scout Registration. Yep you heard that right. I am a Daisy Girl Scout Troop Leader. LOL I am so excited I can’t wait for it to start up. Ok back to Dakota. I brought up some concerns I had with Dakota from last year. Dakota re entered the public school system back in Marach. Started with a hour and then we put him in full time. The problems that came across were huge struggles with getting homework done. It was way to overwhelming for him. So we did what we could and turned it in. The books they were giving him were way to hard for him and way to long for him. This was for Title 1 reading. So the new teacher is going to talk to the Title 1 teacher and see what we can do about it. Dakota is going to struggle this year. He is a little behind. He can be difficult if he doesn’t want to do things. I also told her it will be interesting to see if the noise sensitivity comes out, the amount of students in the classroom and so forth. Dakota did pretty well containing himself. Time will have the answers. I am preparing for the worst but hoping for the best. We talked about spelling words and what could we do to get him to learn them. She had many great ideas. The first night she has them write them 5 times. Not sure how the writing is going to fly with Dakota as it was a struggle for him and his fine motor skills. I had him using my laptop typing things out. We agreed that we would try to get him to write as many as he could and if it became a fight we would type them out on the computer. She is going to talk to the First Grade teacher from last year to get more input on him. Which isn’t much as he wasn’t there long enough last year. She is very willing to work with me. I was really happy about that. We will deal with each issue from day to day through a binder and I will see her before and after school to talk with her. So far my first impression I was really happy with her. The kids start next week Tuesday. I anxious to see how it goes. I was glad to get the chance to talk to her ahead of time so she knew what she was up against. She will be also watching to see how he is focusing on his work. The attention span was very difficult last year. He is on different meds so time will hold those answers too!

Well I am out of here! I am heading to lunch with some friends and then doing some shopping. After that quick supper and Girl Scout Registration. I hope you all have a fantastic day. I will catch up reading my blog roll later tonight! Have a great day!

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