My son is bored, just hates being indoors allllllllllll dayyyyyyyy loooooong.

I volunteer 2-3 days a week

Helicopter much?

Anonymous wrote:Teacher here -

Bored? or not fully engaged - ? there is a difference. Usually the latter. Unless your child is in a classroom that resembles a prison cell, there are a lot of stimulating activities and items in every classroom. Activities change every few minutes! The question you should be asking yourself is NOT "why is my child bored" but "why is my child not engaging more?"

Maybe in your child's school but not in my son's school! I volunteer 2-3 days a week and the kids are on the carpet for 30-50 minutes at a time.

Anonymous wrote:Agree with the teacher above. Too many parents use the "bored" word to complain and the kids pick it up. Few children are truly bored--they just want to do what they want to do. Former teacher.

Alright Former Teacher, can you give assurance that a child who is academically advanced, reading above K level will be engaged and enjoy K?

Well when a kid has been reading for a few years and their words for the week are I and A...the kid is both not engaged and bored. When she can multiple and they are working on number recognition same applies.

Send her to medical school a la Doogie Howser.

Anonymous wrote:Agree with the teacher above. Too many parents use the "bored" word to complain and the kids pick it up. Few children are truly bored--they just want to do what they want to do. Former teacher.

Exactly, the kid has poor self control, has trouble following directions and gets in trouble and the parents all claim it's b/c their kid is so smart and bored.

Well when a kid has been reading for a few years and their words for the week are I and A...the kid is both not engaged and bored. When she can multiple and they are working on number recognition same applies.

Agree with the teacher above. Too many parents use the "bored" word to complain and the kids pick it up. Few children are truly bored--they just want to do what they want to do. Former teacher.

Teacher here -

Bored? or not fully engaged - ? there is a difference. Usually the latter. Unless your child is in a classroom that resembles a prison cell, there are a lot of stimulating activities and items in every classroom. Activities change every few minutes! The question you should be asking yourself is NOT "why is my child bored" but "why is my child not engaging more?"

Not bored even though advanced and even though coming to K from full-day daycare. K is about so much more than the academics; learning to be responsible and cooperate and think about the needs of others when there are only two adults rather than four or five teachers in the class to enforce those principles was a big shift.
Nice, responsible kid, but much more self-reliant at the end of K than at the beginning.

My DS was bored in K mostly because so much time was devoted to phonics. He was already reading on a 3rd grade level by then. He did like the math manipulatives though. His teacher finally just started letting him read during phonics b/c he was talking too much.

My kid went into kinder at five, turned 6 in February, and was bored. She was so excited to finally go to school (hadn't gone to preschool) and learn new things. She was so bored and so disappointed at not learning new things.

I had to encourage her to keep an open mind about all of school in general, and thank goodness in first grade she got a great teacher who found ways to challenge her and find her weaknesses to make her work to improve them.

Yes definitely bored in K..but came from full time daycare so it was not a totally new experience. August birthday so also young not old for her year but entered K reading chapter books. Teacher focused on kids who needed more help. Luckily amazing 1st grade teacher gave her what she needed and more. Now in middle school she is in a GT magnet..no social issues. I am glad we did not red shirt.

First, I taught K some years ago. With a rich K program, your son should not be bored. K is about much more than reading. And, a word of advice: never use the word "bored" with your son.

Yet another redshirting issue, but please try to holster your guns. If you redshirted your child or if your child was already reading and was academically advanced for his/her age, were they bored in K? Is it really possible for kids to be bored when it's a totally new experience plus a full day of school? We want to redshirt our late August boy for social reasons, but he is reading at 1st grade level and academically more than ready for K.

Anyone have a child bored when they started elementary? How did it affect things?