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Mine is in public pre-k 3, for a full day. We also just had teacher conferences last week and I was really excited to see what her teachers would say.

Basically, she's doing great! They said emotionally, she never had any trouble adjusting. That's not a surprise to me because she's always been very adaptable. They said she's polite and friends with everyone. They gave us the results of the literacy test they give at the beginning and end of the school year and out of 48 upper and lower case letters, she knew 46 of them. She can write her first name and is working on her last name. She's knows most of the sounds for beginning consonants. She can easily draw most basic shapes and can draw a person with a face with all features, hair, ears, body with arms, legs, and even hands and fingers. She can count objects up to 20 by herself. After that she just needs help remembering what comes after the 9--like instead of 20-10, it's 30. One of the things her preschool looks for is if they can "play plan". Each day, they have to draw a picture of what they want to do that day--and they said she's really good at both drawing herself (a person) AND what she is doing (an action).

The only thing they gave to work on is sharing. Which I see that same issue at home with little sister, so that was not a surprise. Overall, I was happy to see she's doing find because she's one of the two youngest and also the smallest in her class.

Before I make this sound like one big pat on the back, I fully realize that my oldest just has an easy personality and is interested in reading/letters.

My second is the opposite, and I anticipate that when she starts daycare next year, and then real Pre-K the year after that, we will have a much more difficult transition. She basically hates other people and will scream if people even look at her, literally.

My child loves her K teacher and she has made huge gains. She is advanced in reading and writing, and just started adding two digit numbers, sometimes in her head. The only area she needed to work on was 'independence/self directed' but at this age that is so subjective. I am also guessing she needs to work on communicating in front of the group, like show and tell but not sure.. She really wants to do her best for her teacher. Somehow I lost that at home where she is extremely self directed!

I think the expectations are on track.