Conference set up for next Wednesday

Well, I had the good part of a post written out here about how I have heard nothing from anybody at the school, but then the phone rang and it was Mrs. K. Thank goodness! I was getting worried that I would not hear anything back going into this long weekend.

Anyway, she was calling about two things. One, we are going to have a conference next Wednesday the 21st with Mrs. R, Mrs. K and Mrs. N. I will look forward to that.

The second thing she was calling about was the unit test Will took in math yesterday. We were really hoping for a good grade. He got 19 out of 25 correct, which was a 76%. He really needed a B to pull his grade up. But, beyond the grade is the question of why? Lori told me that during indoor recess she asked Will if he would go over the test with her. She told him that he got a C and she had really thought he would do better than that. She told him that if they could go over it and he could show her that he knows the information she would be willing to give him a few extra points. He, hesitatingly, agreed. She was very, very pleased that he agreed to, though.

So, they went over it. She covered up some of his wrong answers. For example, a quadrilateral was drawn and he was to label the types of angles. He got the right angles wrong (?) on the test. She covered up his answers and asked him what the angles were and he named them all correctly. He also got a few of the other questions correct, while a couple it was obvious he wasn't to certain of the answer. So, she asked me if it was ok if she gave him a few extra points. She feels he knows the info, but it is getting lost somehow in the written work. I told her if she felt comfortable with that, then yes, I was fine with it.

She told me that for some reason he is wanting to get by with as little effort as possible. Today they needed to label some sides to figure out the perimeters and he asked if he had to write the numbers down. She told him that she thought it would really help and he asked again if he had to. She said yes. So he did. But he didn't want to!

So, we are going to meet Wednesday. I need to come up with a thorough list of questions for them. It won't be a long meeting. Off to do some research...