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[quote=Anonymous]Preschool teacher here: 
He sounds frustrated and like he struggles with impulse control. 1. If it’s a school/group behavior it can be addressed much more easily at school, and you can do a lot to help him voice his frustration at home 2. If the school doesn’t see it as something they can help him mature through then that is a problem. Montessori schools tend to have very high ratios of teachers to kids as part of the model - that makes it difficult to shadow him during transitions, which is what he needs. A teacher to interfere and help him with the words before he destroys work or knocks his work over.

It’s also not something that is fixed in a week or two - every kid starts where they are and learns what they need to 
thrive...
To start I would: 1. Give him a very specific count down to the end of whatever activity - at this age just a finish up what you are doing and then it’s almost time to clean up 
2. Focus only on using words - if he knocks over something in frustration stop and ask him to tell you what’s he’s trying to express - don’t worry about the thing 
3. Have him only go to the teacher right now, not another student - and yea that is contrary to the Montessori method

I agree with a previous poster that this school may not be a good match for him

I teach at a play based preschool and this year it’s 7 kids to two teachers. We have a 4 year old who still snatches and knocks over other kids towers...however he has made so much progress this year and he can stop and talk to a friend and apologize, help fix it  and move on. Next year he will have a whole extra year of impulse control, plus the skills to talk to a friend and resolve conflict

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