Prek - 3 adjustment

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My pk3 kid is in a traditional DCPS and they never have any worksheets. OP, are you sure this is what they’re doing? PK3 is very much play based. Watching another kid work could be watching them build their LEGOs.

He comes home with tracing worksheets as homework.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP again.
So, Little Boy sat in his chair and wet himself yesterday. This is a kid who will wake up in the middle of the night to go potty, so I'm not sure if this was just one of those things or a sign that he's really struggling. His teacher also sent a note home that he tends to watch the other kids while they are working rather than focusing on his own.

Sigh. Parent-teacher conferences are coming up soon, but I'm really thinking that this is just not a good fit.

For what it's worth: my child is a watcher. He spent the whole beginning of PK3 just watching the other kids. Then, when he felt more confident about the routine, after a couple of months, he got up and started participating. He's just someone who likes to get the lay of the land before plunging in himself.

Sometimes the teachers communicate with you just to establish a paper trail or baseline for future discussions. When my son was in PK3, I took such communications as a reflection on my child or my parenting, but it's just as likely something the teacher wants to brainstorm with you or simply mark for your attention -- or cover her own rear about.

As for accidents, a first-grader in my son's school had one yesterday - they happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My pk3 kid is in a traditional DCPS and they never have any worksheets. OP, are you sure this is what they’re doing? PK3 is very much play based. Watching another kid work could be watching them build their LEGOs.

He comes home with tracing worksheets as homework.

That's he's actually supposed to do/hand back? This seems really odd for DCPS. My kid very occasionally came home w/ worksheets at her T1 PK3 last year, but she likes them and was clearly asking to take home things she had started but not finished at school. Weirdly only Spanish had actual worksheets and that's because I am skeptical the teacher actually knew Spanish/it is impossible to actually learn Spanish from a 30 minute special once every 6 week days. Total waste of time. (And I totally favor learning a foreign language in school in the abstract

Can you name the school? I think it would help others weigh in with their experiences/ let you know if you are correct to be worried or misinterpreting things somehow.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My pk3 kid is in a traditional DCPS and they never have any worksheets. OP, are you sure this is what they’re doing? PK3 is very much play based. Watching another kid work could be watching them build their LEGOs.

He comes home with tracing worksheets as homework.

That's he's actually supposed to do/hand back? This seems really odd for DCPS. My kid very occasionally came home w/ worksheets at her T1 PK3 last year, but she likes them and was clearly asking to take home things she had started but not finished at school. Weirdly only Spanish had actual worksheets and that's because I am skeptical the teacher actually knew Spanish/it is impossible to actually learn Spanish from a 30 minute special once every 6 week days. Total waste of time. (And I totally favor learning a foreign language in school in the abstract

Can you name the school? I think it would help others weigh in with their experiences/ let you know if you are correct to be worried or misinterpreting things somehow.

My neighbor put her DC in orek3 at our IB school and kids had worksheet homework to do. Needless to say, she pulled her DC out after that year.

[Anonymous]

Kids are resilient. They adjust. If you hold them back, they will be older than their classmates from here on out, and that could give them a complex. Well, not a complex, but they could become self-conscious about that for the next 15 years. Trust me. I speak from experience.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kids are resilient. They adjust. If you hold them back, they will be older than their classmates from here on out, and that could give them a complex. Well, not a complex, but they could become self-conscious about that for the next 15 years. Trust me. I speak from experience.

I have an early Sept birthday. I was always one of the younger ones in the class. School was easy for me and I did well. It would have been a nightmare if I was held back a grade and bored to death in a lower grade class.

[Anonymous]

Why send 3-year-old babies to school? Breaks my heart.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why send 3-year-old babies to school? Breaks my heart.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My pk3 kid is in a traditional DCPS and they never have any worksheets. OP, are you sure this is what they’re doing? PK3 is very much play based. Watching another kid work could be watching them build their LEGOs.

He comes home with tracing worksheets as homework.

That's he's actually supposed to do/hand back? This seems really odd for DCPS. My kid very occasionally came home w/ worksheets at her T1 PK3 last year, but she likes them and was clearly asking to take home things she had started but not finished at school. Weirdly only Spanish had actual worksheets and that's because I am skeptical the teacher actually knew Spanish/it is impossible to actually learn Spanish from a 30 minute special once every 6 week days. Total waste of time. (And I totally favor learning a foreign language in school in the abstract

Can you name the school? I think it would help others weigh in with their experiences/ let you know if you are correct to be worried or misinterpreting things somehow.

Yes, actual worksheets on Friday that are to be turned in the following week. I've decided not to worry about those, though; if my kid would rather spend the weekend playing, that's what we are going to do. I'm not going to stress him or myself out over tracing shapes.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My pk3 kid is in a traditional DCPS and they never have any worksheets. OP, are you sure this is what they’re doing? PK3 is very much play based. Watching another kid work could be watching them build their LEGOs.

He comes home with tracing worksheets as homework.

That's he's actually supposed to do/hand back? This seems really odd for DCPS. My kid very occasionally came home w/ worksheets at her T1 PK3 last year, but she likes them and was clearly asking to take home things she had started but not finished at school. Weirdly only Spanish had actual worksheets and that's because I am skeptical the teacher actually knew Spanish/it is impossible to actually learn Spanish from a 30 minute special once every 6 week days. Total waste of time. (And I totally favor learning a foreign language in school in the abstract

Can you name the school? I think it would help others weigh in with their experiences/ let you know if you are correct to be worried or misinterpreting things somehow.

Yes, actual worksheets on Friday that are to be turned in the following week. I've decided not to worry about those, though; if my kid would rather spend the weekend playing, that's what we are going to do. I'm not going to stress him or myself out over tracing shapes.

Wow. Very different from my experience w/ multiple DCPSes. IME the T1s tend to be a bit more academic (which I totally get). Even w/in T1s, there is a more academic focus at the truly T1s vs those about to transition w/ very active PTAs and non-T1 ECE populations.