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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe she needs to be moved to the 3yr old class.

She sounds bored, not challenged, and might need peers older than her as role models[/quote]

NP here. I  disagree.  I think she should not be advanced to the 3 yr old class until she can follow directions better.  One of the points of preschool is to help children become emotionally ready for different stages.  At 2.8, they should be able to follow directions with repetition.  At this point, she's been in the 2's class for 3/4 of the year.  She should be able to follow classroom rules that include not taking things off the walls and not taking snacks from other children.  If she is not following these rules, she is not emotionally ready to be in the 3's class.

OP--do not stress out about this.  The point of the meeting is that your daughter has not absorbed the rules to the point of being able to follow them.  She is not in trouble; you are not in trouble.  A meeting like this is usually a chance for the teacher to talk to you and work with you to come up with consistent rules and framework to help your daughter learn rules and how to follow them.  Since your daughter is not behaving like this at home, it may be helpful for you to think about how you redirect your child to not take food from other people and how you help her understand not to pull things off the walls or take things from other people.

I have twins and whenever we had a meeting with teachers around that age, it was usually a discussion about how to make sure that the rules and the redirection techniques with synchronized between the teacher and at home, so that the child was getting consistent messaging and learning the rules.  So, the only thing you should do between now and the meeting is to think about how you prevent similar type behavior at home.  If you have techniques that work to redirect her so that she doesn't do some of these things, then have those in hand to discuss with the teacher.  Teachers often have 6-8 children and without knowledge of how different parents redirect or guide their children, they often select one set of techniques for working with all of the children.  But children are unique and what works for Larla may not work for your daughter.  So any input you can provide for how to stop the behavior would likely be welcomed by the teacher.[/quote]

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