I thought this might be fun or interesting. I am an elementary school teacher certified in K-6th grade. I want to offer to answer any questions you may have ever wanted to ask a teacher. No rules, ANYTHING and EVERYTHING is allowed don't be afraid. Ask away....
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*Maxswolfsuit
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My five year old dd is really smart, and is doing really well in reading. I have noticed she gets confused with the lowercase b and d. She will ask me which is which. Is this normal for a kinder? I have an older dd but she is ADHD so I can't really base it off her. I thought I would ask here before talking to her teacher about it. Thanks! :)
ETA: She is an older 5 since her birthday is in May. I forgot to add that earlier.
I am a busy working mom to two very active girls. I love my kids, play on the floor in the fort with them, take them to the park, and love them always! I can't imagine life without them!
Quoting Momtogirls0823:My five year old dd is really smart, and is doing really well in reading. I have noticed she gets confused with the lowercase b and d. She will ask me which is which. Is this normal for a kinder? I have an older dd but she is ADHD so I can't really base it off her. I thought I would ask here before talking to her teacher about it. Thanks! :)
ETA: She is an older 5 since her birthday is in May. I forgot to add that earlier.
It's totally normal. The fact that she's even asking means she more aware than most kids her age.
Quoting maxswolfsuit:
Quoting Momtogirls0823:My five year old dd is really smart, and is doing really well in reading. I have noticed she gets confused with the lowercase b and d. She will ask me which is which. Is this normal for a kinder? I have an older dd but she is ADHD so I can't really base it off her. I thought I would ask here before talking to her teacher about it. Thanks! :)
ETA: She is an older 5 since her birthday is in May. I forgot to add that earlier.
It's totally normal. The fact that she's even asking means she more aware than most kids her age.
Great to know. I won't worry about it, then. Thanks for the quick reply! :)
I am a busy working mom to two very active girls. I love my kids, play on the floor in the fort with them, take them to the park, and love them always! I can't imagine life without them!
I have a 5 year old son in Kindergarten. In November he moved to be back with me after my deployment. My son is ADHD/ODD and the move while he was glad to be home with mom has been hard on him. The first few months were fine at school but tough at home and now things are great at home but awful at school. I am getting notes home everyday from the teacher telling me that he has been in time out for hitting and spitting and other disruptive behavior. The way the school is dealing with this is to put him in time out in the 5th grade classroom. As a result of this my son has begun having "accidents" and almost everyday for the past 2 weeks i have been called to inform me of this and to replace his extra clothes. Its very frustrating to me and my son is clearly embarrassed and claims he is scared of the big kids. I have met with the principal and teacher 3 times these past couple of weeks and all 3 times have been told we will do whatever we need to do to help. I do discipline my son, but the school is making it seem like its all my problem and they dont have any responsibility to my son or for my sons actions..my question is have you dealt with any situations like this or do you have any suggestions as to how to work with my son and the school to correct these problems
Hello mom0092,
I was wondering what would be the best way to get a child back in his or her correct grade after being retained in the first grade.
My nephew is now in the fourth grade. He is supposed to be in the fifth grade, but was retained in the first grade. It broke my sister's heart when he was retained . My nephew is a very smart boy, but faced a lot of bullying when he was in the first grade. My sister and husband went to the school several times to speak to the teacher and the teacher told my sister and her husband that their son should "just ignore it , all the other kids do". Afterwards they spoke to the principal and that did not help, the children were still bullying my nephew. My sister and her husband eventually had my nephew place in another class. The teacher in the new class told my sister that my nephew may be left back and my sister explained to her about the bullying and that he was a fast learner and that he was just distracted because of the bullying . The new teacher did not seem to care. she retained my nephew that June.
My sister called to make an appointment with the principal after the decision and the principal refused to meet them, until a parent advocate my sister contacted, requested for the principal to meet with my sister and her husband. The principal meet with my sister and her husband an the principal said just because she met with them, does not mean she was going to change her mind. My sister wrote to the superintendent and he agreed that the principal was very unprofessional and later agreed with the principal about my nephew being retained.
Since then, my new has lower self- esteem, He feels bad when sees all of his friends in their regular grade. It is even harder now that all his friend will be graduating to junior his school. Every grade he complains about the children in his class act like babies. He has no interest in any subject. This breaks my heart because sister is the most positive and optimistic person I know, however i can tell she feels a since of failure for her son being retained and how it has affected her son after being retained in the first grade.
Do you have any advice, it would be greatly appreciated.
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- mom0092
on May. 24, 2010 at 12:02 AM