Lost a Link! and other school stories

Adilyn's Kindergarten has a discipline system of "links". You have 3 links each day. When you are not listening or doing something bad, you "lose a link". I think that once you have lost all 3, you get the dreaded "sad note" home. To my knowledge, Adilyn had never lost a link. She gets stickers in her folder everyday to indicate good behavior, but tonight the truth came out. She has lost a link 3 times! Today, she lost the link because she was being silly and too loud at the water fountain. As she was telling me the story, she also let it slip that she has lost a link 2 other times for being silly. Hmmm...when we talked about it, I asked her if she felt bad when she lost a link. She said that she didn't really care! That kind of made me mad, so I tried to explain to her that she should want to act the right way and that she should feel sad when she gets in trouble. She said, "Oh, I did feel kinda sad. I just didn't feel bad." Okay, whatever. I just tried to tell her that she really needs to do the right thing. I got an, "Alright, Mom." Nice...

On a brighter note, Adilyn is doing a great job reading. She is at a Level C, which is where she is supposed to be at the end of the year, so that is good enough for me. She is bringing home a reading folder each week with two leveled readers of her choosing. Her books were called, "Jack's Road" and "The Little Snowman". She is supposed to read one a night, and then I ask her vocabulary or comprehension questions. One night I asked her, "Who do you think drew the road on the paper?" She responded, "Jack." I asked her why she thought that, and she responded, "Um, because the book is called, 'Jack's Road'." And she said it like I was so stupid for not knowing that! I love that she is liking to learn. I truly hope that continues throughout her education. She may not always love school, but I really hope she enjoys it enough to do her best!

I asked her who she played with a recess one day, and she told me that she played with Kassie. She told me that they played a "different version of twins". I asked her what she meant by that, and she told me that it meant they played a different type of the twins game. Wow, she is growing up too fast! The things she knows  and understands now continues to amaze me!