IEP, Dentist, & Counselor

Rachel has had some great appointments this week.

IEP

Her IEP went really well.  She officially tested out of speech therapy this year.  Woohoo!!  U go girly.  That made her IEP go a lot smoother.  She will still be pulled out for math.  She is in a much lower level.  She will have that for 1 hour a day.  We also put down that she will have 30 minutes of pull out for reading/language.  It’s not that she needs it but we want her monitored. Rachel has this amazing way of soaring at one task and then the other majorly falters.  So we keep things on for monitoring until we see a consistent patter…if we ever see one.

Her teacher did freak me out a little bit.  She got my mommy hairs standing up on the back of my neck.  She tells me that she is going to keep Rachel back in the 3rd grade.  Okay, I dealt with this when Rachel was in 1st grade.  My daughter is not going to bust her hump and get held back.  Seems kinda counter-productive don’t ya think!?  Plus she has had straight-A’s. 

I calmly asked the teacher why she felt this was necessary.  I figured I would let her have her argument before I ate her alive.

She then tells me that if she did hold Rachel back it was only for pure selfishness and not because Rachel should be.  Rachel was such a delight to have this year that she doesn’t want to let her go.  Aaahhh!!

Dentist

Dentist was good too.  Her brushing is getting much better.  She only got told to focus a little more on the gumline in front of her bottom teethers.  She has no cavities.  She has some major crowding but we already knew braces were in her teen future.  We left there pleased.

Counselor

Counseling also went well.  Rachel is one heck of a journaler.  And it seems to help that she found a productive way to vent her anger.  Her homework for the next two weeks was to keep journaling and try to have a good laugh at least one time a day.  She did like 4 times last night.  After each time, her eyes would light up and she would have to go journal that she had laughed.  She is just too cute!