The Parents Are Coming!

Tomorrow night is Open House. I have no student work in the hall, and I'm not sure exactly what I want to say to my students' parents. Hopefully, more will come than did on Back to School night when I had 2 families stop by to meet me. I had a great day today and my class did also. My new TA is in place and my challenge child was absent, so things went more smoothly than they have in a week or so. We actually did almost everything on my plans today and the classroom environment stayed quite positive. Tomorrow we give the Naglieri Nonverbal Ability Test followed by the TPRI the next day. I had my first somewhat Spanish conversation with a parent today. I sent home progress reports on Thursday to each child describing his or her progress in letter and sight word recognition, writing first name, counting and mathematical concepts, and classroom conduct. One mom brought it to me and asked for a translation which I was able to give to her satisfaction. I'm pretty happy about that. Also, I learned that the new Microsoft Word can translate documents into Spanish using WorldLingo, so I'm expecting better parent/teacher communications from this point forward. Now, if I can just get things ready for tomorrow night...