So, Will and I got our 10 minute chat with the teacher tonight.

A summary of the key points, as I remember them:

• he's talkative (wonder where he gets that from?)
• he has a mature vocabulary and a rather unique way of phrasing things
• he's emotional, prone to crying in class easily and gets rather overwrought about things (I blame that on Will. He cried at our wedding after all)
• he's really good at maths
• his reading is at a really good level, but he's a bit stilted when he reads aloud
• he is easily distracted, but now that he's been moved so he's sitting next to a very studious child, he seems to be focusing on his own work better
• he is capable of much more in his writing (which is to say that he has demonstrated a good capacity for writing but tries to get away with doing as little of it as he can)
• he likes cuddles too much - his teacher says she can't cope with any more cuddles

We talked a bit about the cuddles on the way home and how some people don't actually like hugged all the time. He found this rather perplexing but has agreed to try not to hug his teacher so much. He thought it was something nice to do for his teacher because he likes to be cuddled.

The comments on his report card made me laugh a bit:
"I should be proud of the lovely contributions I make to class discussions. I listen carefully to the discussion, I think about what I would like to say, I speak with a clear voice and I use a mature vocabulary."
He should also be proud of "the pleasing progress [he] is making with number work... working on the addition of numbers within 100 and adding using carrying."

I figured I'd let her work out that he's doing multiplication on her own. They are apparently starting it this week anyway. :-P

Anyway, she says he sweet and clever and that we should be very proud of him. We are (even without the teacher telling us).