Parent Teacher Conferences - October 2025

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Hello everyone, how are you all doing? I know I haven't really been posting or hanging around here too much lately. Just haven't really had much to share. And when I don't, I usually don't spend more than a few minutes here. However, I thought I would share how Parent Teacher conferences went for Eli. The first semester is halfway done already - that's crazy to think! Eli has almost all A's and B's - except for his F in language arts and C in music. He is now done with music though because it was only a 9 week course; the 6th graders are taking half a semester of each of the "fun" classes to see what they want to take in the next 2 years. Now that he's done with music he is starting crafts. Anyways - about his F in English/language arts. He is smart enough to get an A in the class because he is getting an A on all of his tests. The trouble is he does not know what to write when it comes to doing the reading responses (they are reading a book and then given questions to answer). He's gotten an F on each of those assignments. Now he can redo them, the teacher says they can redo any assignment and he can also do extra credit book reports (sort of). Hopefully he'll bring the paperwork home to do the extra credit. The rest of his classes he's doing great in - He has an A in Computers, math and social studies. Then he has a B in science which his teacher says she doesn't think he'll get any lower than a B. His only struggle is the creative writing thing....he just doesn't know what to write. That's been his struggle since he had to start doing any creative writing kind of assignment. Not sure how to help him there... There is tutoring with high school students but I think he'd just be too shy to talk to them... He may have to retake English but I don't know if that will ever work because he just doesn't know what to write. Any ideas on that matter? I can't really help myself because my creativity is not much better. I used to be able to write poem after poem and now I can't sit down and write one. Image is mine Edit: I have done the math and he would need to do at least 7 extra credit projects to counteract all his F's on assignments (extra credit projects are worth 50 grade points)