Tonight was Lucy's first Parent/Teacher interview...with a twist. It was called a Student-Lead Conference. We got there at 5pm and Lucy lead us through a stream of 6 different stations where she got to demonstrate to us some of the things she's been doing so far this year. She was SO excited to show off, and we were excited to participate with her. She started us off at the water table where she got to create a boat out of tin foil. She had to 'predict' whether she thought her boat would float when filled with little plastic people. She predicted it would sink, because she had witnessed many of the other kids throughout the day attempt this project and had their boats sink. But she didn't count on her engineer-savy dad. They created a large boat (large surface area) with sturdy sides. They were able to fill the boat with 145 without sinking it. They ran out of people, and then started filling the boat with sea creatures. It never sank. Whoo-hoo Dad!
Then we headed over to the "Patterns" station, where Dad created patterns for Lucy to guess. He started with a few pieces of alternating colored blocks and covered the last 3 tiles with cups. Lucy had to guess how to complete the pattern. To toughen up it for her, he started using different shapes and colors, and then stacking blocks. She did great and guessed all the patterns. Then it was her turn to stump her dad...and stump him she did. Whoo-hoo Lucy!
We got to guess how many gold-fish crackers were in a jar, and the Lucy got to show us her journal, her drawing book, and her scrapbook. She did a little book of her emotions, and we had fun looking at all her drawings.
It's sweet to see that all her drawings include Max in some way or another.
She also got to practice writing the letter 'F' for us, and painting a Fish picture. Max was pretty pleased with all the toys and artwork, so he decided to paint a picture of a fish as well. We finished with a chat with the teacher and then it was home for dinner.
Lucy's friend Ava and her parents had had their student conference at 3:15 (which is at the end of school) and since they were driving home today, they decided to have Lucy wait at the school while they had their conference, and then they'd bring her home. The conferences were scheduled to only take half an hour, but if the students were extra chatty, it could take quite a bit longer. It turned out that we met up with Lucy on the way to the school and had her switch out of Ava's car and into ours, so we could go straight back to the school because their conference had gone long. So Lucy stayed at the school from about 8:30 this morning until after 6pm tonight. She was exhausted. We had a quick dinner, played a game of Statue and a tub/scriptures/prayers and into bed. She will sleep good tonight, I'm sure. What a start student.
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