Pregnancy - Third Month

I am a little behind on posting.  I'm almost at 15 weeks.  Since the 2nd Trimester has started, it has been much better too.


9 Weeks - 12/23/10

• Christmas Eve Day
• Sure having up and downs.  Stomach is not acting friendly with me at all times.  Feel bloated and blah at different parts of the day.
• Get hunger pains every few hours as if I hadn't had any food what so ever.
• Enjoying taking naps while on Christmas vacation from school.

10 Weeks - 12/30/10

• New Year's Day - 1/1/11

12 Weeks - 1/13/11

• Returned to school almost two weeks ago and have done pretty well.  No major problems.
• The past few days (1/14, 1/15) have been a little rough and hopefully things will get back to normal.  Sure was enjoying the morning sickness disappearing.
• On Sunday, 1/16, I was watching television in the bedroom when I decided to get a snack.  I quickly found out that Jeff and Jakob were busy working on putting together the crib in the baby room!  So sweet!

13 Weeks - 1/20/11

• Routine checkup at doctors office on 1/20/11.

Kindergarten Stories: 3rd Six Week's Report Card

3 - Meets Expectations (Consistently demonstrates proficient understanding and applies skills independently with minimal teacher support.)
2 - Making Progress (Demonstrates initial stages of understanding; applies skills but requires teacher intervention or reinforcement.)
1 - Insufficient Progress (Demonstrates a lack of understanding; difficulty accomplishing grade level tasks; reteaching consistently required.)

 Language Arts:

• Uses strategies to comprehend a variety of texts - 3
• Uses the writing process to compose a variety of texts - 2
• Listens attentively - 2
• Communicates ideas, experiences, and needs using academic language - 3

Early Literacy Intervention:
(Completed during Beginning of the Year)

• Letter Identification - 3
• Letter Sounds - 1
• Concepts about Print - 2
• Phonological Awareness - 1

Guided Reading Level:

• Student Guided Reading Level - B
• Student Uses Strategies to Comprehend Guided Reading Text - 3

Science:

• Observe and record properties of objects (able to identify size, mass, shape, color, texture) - 3
• Differentiate between living  and nonliving based upon whether they have basic needs - 3
• Identify basic needs of animals - 2

Social Studies:

• Explain why people have jobs - 2
• Identify purposes for having rules (including rules for order, security, and safety) - 2
• Identify authority figures in home, school, and community (able to identify school, home; not able to identify community) - 3
• Explain the reasons for national patriotric holidays - 2
• Place events in chronological order using vocabulary related to time and chronology, (including before, after, next, first, and last) - 3

Mathematics:

• 2-D Geometric figures - 3
• Position and Location - 3
• 3-D Geometric figures (able to describe and compare; not able to identify shape) - 2
• Describe relative sizes of concrete sets (compare) - 2
• Name ordinal positions (first, second, third, etc) - 3
• Task 1: Counting Objects (Keeps track while counting accurately, remembers how many) - 2
• Task 2: Counting out a particular quantity (Counts up to a particular quantity) - 2