Report Card

My five-year-old son brought home his first report card today. (At least, it was in his backpack. I wonder is he was even aware of it.) I can't remember bringing home a report card from Kindergarten — but then, I can't remember bringing home homework, either, and he's already had quite a bit of that.

It's difficult for me to understand what this all means — for all of the time I've spent around kids, I still don't have a strong sense of what a five-year-old in a mainstream Kindergarten class mght be capable of, much less my son's peers in his smaller class. But I can see that he's making progress, and his teacher agrees. And he enjoys going to school. I don't think he'll make the transition to a mainstream class this year — but I feel comfortable with this decision, certainly more so than I did before the beginning of the school year. (His teacher has spoken of introducing him to a mainstream art class in the coming months.)

And so it begins — the first of many report cards to come.