Parents Day!

It was Parents Day at Language Stars, and since Crysti's never been I suggested she take Leilani instead of me.  As is typical of her, she managed to get the names of a few parents (which I haven't done in two plus years) and get Leili invited to a birthday party.

There's a reason she's called my better half.

Anyway as is customary we got a progress report on our little one, and I'm happy to report she's doing quite well.  It's not as if she get's A's and B's of course, but at this time she is "Doing Easily" almost everything that in her current Learning Phase.  That's repeating full sentences & questions while using single words spontaneously.  The only thing she's working on is repeating first person sentences with only one prompt.  If I know my girl, I suspect she insists on saying what she wants in the language she wants.  She's occasionally strong willed.

Indeed we even have examples of what she's been saying in class:

Teacher: "¡Y este perro es grande!"
Leilani: "Noo, es chiquito."
Teacher: "Oh, si es chiquito."

There's also a section here about her papá being named Erick which would be great if my name had a k at the end of it, but I suppose it's not a class on spelling in English.

Why does any of this matter?  I think it's important that the lessons are more than just glorified babysitting.  If you've ever sent kids to swimming lessons, summer camp or karate you know a lot of parents are just looking for an hour to spare for themselves, and it shows in the results they get out of them.  With Language Stars, a true class, she's making real progress we can track.