Progress report

I got Whitman’s second progress report on Monday.  The BB lady was very excited for him.  He is now at age-level or above for everything they measure, with the one notable exception of upper body strength.  Since the last progress report on February 6^th:

Whit has gone up 3 levels in Visual Ocular Reflex (not moving his head with his eyes). 

He’s up two age levels in Visual Processing (meaning he should now be able to find something particular in a junk drawer, or do Where’s Waldo pages), Proprioception (knowing where his body is in space—I never realized he had an issue with that.  He’s not particularly clumsy), Gait/Aerobics and Interactive Metronome (keeping a rhythm).

He gained a level in Balance Beam, Supine Core (face up), Prone Core (face down—like superman exercises), Upper Body (he’s still far behind) and Brachiation (like a chin-up—still far behind)

My 4^th grader (Mom brag alert) is working at a 7^th grade level for Getting the Main Idea and Drawing Conclusions, and a 6^th grade level for Making Inferences.  In Math, he’s doing 5^th grade level Fractions, Decimals, and Multi-step word problems.

So what does this mean at school and home?

So I told you how he turned his U’s in Miss Miller’s class to S-.  She has told him that he is doing much better in her class and that she’s impressed.  In fact, when the kids of the reading class got out of hand last week to the point she had to bring in the head of lower school to yell at them, Whitman was told it didn’t concern him and he didn’t have to stay in for recess with the rest of them.  I attribute BB 100% for that breakthrough.  It has always been Whitman who would be the leader in such class-room hijacking shenanigans.  The fact that he wasn’t a part of it at all is mind-blowing.

We’re still not getting any math homework, but any writing assignments remain next to impossible.  I told that to BB lady and she promised to work on writing with him for his last month at BB.  She told me that she is very excited to see what he accomplishes in this last trimester.  Me too!  I hope he can put his thoughts on paper by the end of this.