Xander's First Report Card

On Friday Xander brought home his first report card of the year. I'm happy - and proud! - to say that he got high marks mostly across the board. He's right at the top of things in Language and Literacy (just like his Mom!), and doing well in Math, Science & Technology.

Xander's Learning Behaviors are good - his teacher thinks he has a good attention span, which is shocking! No surprisingly, he got excellent marks for Art. Once we get into Group Participation, though, things downslide a bit. Here is the note his teacher added:

"Xander is excelling academically in Kindergarten. He understands the concepts we are learning and adds to the class conversation with things he knows. I expect Xander to sail into first grade with no problem.

His behavior issues have been a problem at different times througout the year. Xander likes to have things his way and often becomes negative about the activity we are doing if he doesn't get his way. We are continuing to work on this. When he does things well, he is very pleased with himself."

Yeah, behavior has been an issue with Xander at school. He fights, he says mean things, he ignores the rules. We've tried incentive charts, both home and at school, and the taking away of privileges. Basically it boils down to Xander being Xander, so all we can do is keep trying to get him to be the nice boy I know he can be.

If anyone has advice on that, I'd sure take it!