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[quote=Anonymous]OP here, I was thinking of taking a day off and doing some observations myself. i will also give the teachers those questions and ask them to observe for a week.

I have been watching him closely in larger groups. He loves the playground--tries to interact with kids around his age, often parallel play or imitates them, and observes the older ones with a lot of curiosity. While he will occasionally check around to see where dad or I might be, he plays pretty independently at the playground. Daycare reports, however, that he rarely has issues when outside (unless there is a tussle over a toy, but that appears age appropriate and not overly concerning).

In music class he is a bit distracted, but not upset. In fact, during the couple songs where its basically instrument free play--tons of different instruments that kids can pick up and explore--he is fine. Loves to try different instruments, goes around handing them to other adults, and explores them. Does not seem disturbed by the rather chaotic nature of class--he has a harder time following direction than a lot of the kids (though he is on the younger side), but this past week did pretty well in a game where you moved and then stopped.... he actually stopped, a first.

In groups of adults, he loves to perform, eye contact has always been terrific, he is very social, loves peek a poo, and either doing something to make someone laugh or laughing at someone doing something funny. He is a good mimic, both language and body movement, and I have never had any concerns on his social interaction, until now. he asks for people by name all the time-=-mama, dada, his brother, grandma, his uncle, kids and teachers at his daycare, etc.

I suspect it is something about the activities at the daycare, or perhaps not getting the attention he craves during those activities, or doesn't want to follow the structure.  In music class, at our house, in the playground he always has a parent around focused on him but at daycare it is a group dynamic . I will follow up and repost with my observations. At this point I am not terribly worried, but as we are considering his options for school, etc, next year it will be useful to think about the best atmosphere for him. [/quote]

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