What a Smart Young Man.

We had parent teacher conferences for Caiden last week. We had a really great conference this time.
About a month ago we had an unofficial meeting with his teachers and were told that they had some concerns about his behavior. We discussed their concerns as well as ours.
The consensus?.... He was bored, bored, bored. Preschool is just to easy for him and the fact that he is getting a repeat from last year was driving him to boredom which equaled naughtiness and attention seeking.
So the teachers have been working on challenging him more and teaching him things that he hasn't already mastered.
So with that in mind, we have been working on first grade skills in both reading and math.
It is good to see him having a challenging time with trying to figure out how to add double digits and reading complex words (sh, ch, st,).
It was good for me to hear just how well he is doing and who wouldn't love hearing that they have the smartest kid in class? (and possibly the school) The teacher said that she wished that they had a gifted program that they could offer him. For now we will just continue to challenge and teach him until he feels like he needs to slow down. He truly amazes and inspires us.

He has been acting better in class and expressing his needs and frustrations as they come up.
I just don't think they were prepared to have a child that can articulate his needs and so they didn't know quite how to handle his strong personality.

His latest obsession is memorizing dialogue. He told me that he wants to be a movie star.
This is the latest thing that he has memorized. He is mesmerized by the newest version of Charlie and the chocolate factory.

*Greetings,to you the lucky finder of this golden ticket, from Mr. Willy Wonka.
I shake you warmly by the hand and invite you to my factory for ONE WHOLE DAY.*

He also loves jingles from commercials.
* Nationwide is on your side *
(He used this one when we were at a meeting and the presentor was discussing some national statistics about the subject.)
She said " These statistics are nationwide.....
He busts out in song, "Nationwide is on your side!"

The other one that he loves is,
OXI CLEAN WITH KABOOM. IT GETS THE TOUGH STAINS OUT!
or if it is just KABOOM.
KABOOM AND THE STAINS ARE GONE!

I was stirring grape juice and some of it spilled on my white shirt he told me that we needed to use (in his best infomercial voice) OXI CLEAN WITH KABOOM. IT GETS THE TOUGH STAINS OUT!


♥Caiden, thank you for being my boy. I just love you so much and think you are such an extraordinary young man. You never stop making us laugh and have such a fun personality.
Keep up the excellent work in school. You are truly gifted and very talented. ♥ MOM