Ukraine Adoption

Tara is SO ready

Kindergarten, look out. Tara's pre-school teacher says Tara is "more than ready" for kindergarten in the fall.

We had a parent-teacher conference this morning and her teacher described Tara as: artistic, creative, always raising her hand with the answer (sometimes they tell her someone else needs a chance to answer), always excited to learn, willing to try new things, has learned to be "less sassy" than she was in the fall (my girl, sassy?), and is very well acquainted with letters and numbers.

There's more: Her classmates come to her to tie their shoes, she gives her teachers so much art work that they have some posted to the wall in the front of the room and throughout the bathroom (all with her signature of course). She has a lot of friends and she plays well on her own. "When she's doing artwork, she gets in a zone," her teacher said. "She's so creative!"

And the rest: Her language has improved, even in just the last few months where she'll say COMputer instead of puter. "I think if she slows down, she'll use the right words," her teacher said. She's apparently just so excited she blurts things out and sometimes you can't follow what she means. But she's learning...

OK, so I realized that her teacher did NOT know that Tara was adopted from Ukraine. I told her today that Russian was Tara's first language until she was two years old. This surprised her considerably. (the director knew, I assumed the teacher was told.)

So, she was evaluated exactly like her American peers. My baby. My big girl.

Kindergarten, look out.
Posted by Laura at April 8, 2008 04:09 PM
Posted to Tara's Story