Parent Teacher conferences

So the boys both had their parent teacher conferences today.  I will start with Max.  His teacher started out by saying that he is doing worse.  He fidgets with his shoe all of the time, he doesn't pay attention, he doesn't follow directions.

Then she showed me his work.   He is one of the top readers.  He is doing excellent at spelling and sight words.  He exceeds expectations on math. 

Hmmm, and this is worse?  I am trying not to make any judgmenets right now, but I have to think.  He isn't paying attention, but he is showing as an excellent student.  Perhaps he is bored?  I don't know.  Max's ADD testing is March 5th and 6th.  I guess we will know more then.

Gavin's conference went well also... for the most part.  He also is doing amazing in all of his classes. A's and A-'s in everything.  However he tends to make bad choices with his friends.  Today, the day of conferences, he tells another boy in his class to go look up the word breast in the dictionary.  What?!  Are you kidding me?! 

Sooooo.... since Gavin is soooo exctremely interested in the dictionary I am giving him lists of words that he gets to look up in the dictionary and write the definitions to.  :)  words like: choice, respect, example, teacher, and of course breast.  I am going to give him 10 words today, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.   he is going to hate the dictionary.  but I bet he won't tell someone to look up an inappropriate word in the dictionary again.