Proud of Skylar

I had Skylar's school conference last week.  They take a test called the Dibels.  At the begining of the year they tested the kindergartners on 2 of the categories.

First sound fluency: she scored a 32 in the fall and a a 58 now.  The bench mark is 30.
Letter naming fluency: she scored a 26 in the fall and a 40 now.  The benck mark is 27
Phoneme segmentation: not tested in the fall, 68 now.  Bench mark is 20 (this is a really hard one for most kindergartners but she breezed through it.She actually got the highest score in her class)
Nonsense word fluency: not tested in the fall, 40 now.  Bench mark is 17.  This is also a hard one for most but she did really well,

Over all she scored a 206.  Bench mark for the whole test was 122 so she is well above where she needs to be.

She also participated in the WIN program where she got to go to the computer lab once a week and write a story.  She wrote a story about her dog, and also one about herself.  They first wrote their story on paper and then they typed it on the computer themselves.  They were left on their own unless they specifically asked for help spelling a word.

Skylar is really excelling in her reading abilities also.  She is reading level one reading books with ease, and some level 2.  When we drive places she can read almost every sign.  She reads the grocery list for the store.  She likes to write lists and little notes that she leaves all over the house.  Tonight she was doing her homework and one of her pages was a picture find. One of the pictures was a microphone.  She read the word and told me, mom, in the word elephant it sounds like there is an F but there isn't.  it's really a PH, just like in microphone.  see?