One week and counting...

Elliott starts Kindergarten next Wednesday. One week to go. Hooray! Last night was Back to School night, aka Meet the Teacher night. Elliott got to meet Mrs. Stewart. Then he got to go back again today for his Kindergarten assessment. He got to do things like write his name and numbers 0-10. And tell her what color crayons were in a box. And identify as many letters and numbers as he could. He counted as high as he could (or at least until she told him to stop). When asked to do this task, he replied, I can only count to 500. He started out very slowly, and gradually sped up so you could barely understand what he was saying. He got just past 30 when she asked him to stop. He had to count some things and do some basic story problems. He had to identify beginning and ending sounds of words and tell her what sounds different letters make. The final task was to read a bunch of words on a page. He whipped through them really fast. When he finished, she recognized he is a good reader, so she asked if he reads quite a bit at home. I told her he has read all of the Magic Tree House books (there are at least 40). She was rather surprised. He got 103/110 on his assessment - a surprise for the teacher, but not for us. We know we have a little smarty pants on our hands. I think he will still have fun in Kindergarten, but it was a little difficult for me to come up with "goals" I want him to accomplish this year. I figure the standards are learn to read, write his name, etc. Well, goals accomplished. I'm hoping he at least learns some better social skills, like realizing the world doesn't always revolve around him. He's a great kid. I'm excited for him to start Kindergarten and so is he!