What Kinder Parents Need to Know

What I think would be nice is a small handbook of things every new kindergarten parent should know. For example, a POPS Rally (and no I do not know what POPS stands for); Brookhollow had one last Friday. Apparent they give out awards to students. JT received three of them as well as two gift certificates for miniature golf. Rick and I felt like horrible parents for not attending after JT gave us a full report of the event and that most of his friend's parents were there. At the end of it, he was nice enough to say that "it was really boring so it is okay you didn't come."

We also had our first parent/teacher conference. Turns out what we thought is true, JT is a genius and they are moving him to 5th grade. Actually he knows his numbers really well, can identify most letters by sight, has no clue what a rhombus or parallelogram are, and doesn't know all of his letters phonetically. All of that basically means that he is a normal kindergartner. I did ask the teacher if he pays her as he comes home every day with Beary Good Student in his folder (the kids get animals to represent their behavior for the day, you do not want Disrespectful Dinosaur). Her response was that JT is a very well mannered and polite child. Rick and I are not sure if aliens invade JT's body when he is at school but we are very pleased to hear that he is well-mannered in public.

In other kinder news, JT has successfully mastered the monkey bars. He can go all the way across via the middle and on the side. This is big news and he often asks if we can go on the weekend to practice.

TBall is almost over; two more weekends to go. It has actually turned out to be a fun season and JT is having a good time.

And no, I have no idea what "Bobcats Fight Free" means. Another thing to add to my "What Parents Need to Know About Kinder Book."