Student Led Conference

     It started out pretty well...hit some bumpy spots, then ended well.  A grounding for the week-end, but Koby actually is fine with it.  It's not that he has bad grades, all A's and B's, it's the zero's on the assignment reports out of each class.  The B's are low B's.  Seems he has a bit of an issue with organizing.  "Oh, I still have that assignment, it's in my locker" or assignments that should have been dome as homework, but were forgotten then handed in incomplete.  I know he's in 8th grade and 8th graders are as close as they will ever be to being incapable of learning things (this is a proven fact through brain research!!), but he has GOT to get this figured out!  This is the last year of credits that "don't count".  In August, I will officially have a High School Student.  We also found out that he has lunch for the next two weeks away from the rest of the students.  Turns out that he and one of his friends were shooting air soft beebees through pens that had the ink thing removed (hopefully that makes sense).  Lovely.  Koby told us at the conference tonight, and Shawn laughed and said "Uh, yeah, that's not a good idea".  Boys and men really aren't very different from each other.
     Here's the good stuff.  Koby's math teacher told us that one of the things that really sticks out to him about Koby, is the fact that every day, Koby says "Hi" to him in the hall.  He told us that there aren't many kids that do that.  Another teacher calls him "gopher" because he pops up all over the classroom...visiting other students.  That's something we've been hearing about for years :)  His social studies and language arts teachers absolutely love him, even though he's a bit too social during class.  All in all, his teachers think he's great.  We also got his DRP test scores (Degrees of Reading Power) and this year he's at a 72.  The highest the chart goes is to 63...that's a 12.8 reading level.  My 8th grader has a college reading level!  He scored in the 88th percentile for the nation.  Not too shabby!  Seeing that, cushioned the blow with the zeros.  H might be grounded, but I think we'll still hit Dairy Queen! 
     On a different note, today was Shawn and mine's 14th Wedding Anniversary.  I'll write about that in my next blog...I've got to go spend time with my hubby.  I'm even deciding to turn in my Reading and Writing assignments tomorrow instead of tonight.  Priorities, you know!