I would not in a million years force my 3- 5 year old kid to sit in front of a computer for classes that are not teaching her anything.

Anonymous wrote:PK3 isn’t even important to attendance numbers... everyone knows three years olds can sit like that

Pk3 teacher here. The schedule I was given was 8-3:30, non stop except for breaks for lunch & nap. Attendance had to be taken at each session. Y’all got what you asked for. Now get that kid logged in

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Anonymous wrote:I would not waste a single second worrying about this. seriously. spend your time and energy reading an extra book together or baking cookies.

Okay. But folks will lose their seats if they care consider dropping out of the school. So yeah it isn't okay to just not show up.

Any school that expects a 3 year to sit attentively at a screen throughout the day isn't a school I would want my kid to attend. Shows a lack of understanding of child development and has age inappropriate expectations.

Don't borrow trouble. We don't know yet what attendance requirements we have for PK students. Just commit to doing the minimum. I loved our PK teachers, but our 45 minute sessions were brutal and worthless display of you tube videos. I don't know who told them to do that. Something more interactive would have probably been a bit better. But 45 minutes was pushing it.

I love the idea of just turning it on in the room without worrying if the kid will sit in front of the computer. I might try that!

Anonymous wrote:I would not waste a single second worrying about this. seriously. spend your time and energy reading an extra book together or baking cookies.

Okay. But folks will lose their seats if they care consider dropping out of the school. So yeah it isn't okay to just not show up.

I would not waste a single second worrying about this. seriously. spend your time and energy reading an extra book together or baking cookies.

It was pure hell this spring with our 3 year old pk3 child. We tried everything but most of the time she just walked away. Then we'd get emails from the teachers noting she was missing during class and asking why. Um, because short of a torture scene this developmentally inappropriate set up wasn't going to work?

The only thing that sort of worked was giving her a snack and coloring supplies. Then she'd sort of color and sometimes tune in and out of the classroom activities. But even then that maybe worked less than 20% of the time. But then if she saw her siblings outside, all bets were off. In the end, we just started doing some letter and number apps and videos for brief periods. We did lots of outdoor time and some days didn't even log into the app because it wasn't worth the fight.

You're in for a real $%^&ing treat!

^^ to add since at first we were only doing 5 min of live a day the teacher gave me a home school curriculum she made aligned to creative curriculum/Gold. She coached me on how to do this with my child and sent some neat materials to the school for parents to pick up.
Just in case others were wondering.

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Anonymous wrote:My 3 year old is able to do 15 minutes at a time so we’ll be fine. Lots of reinforcement and time put into me teaching the skill based on what the teacher said.

But she went from literally ONE minute in March to 15 in May. Love her teacher and wish we could have her again...

Can you describe what you did?

It doesn’t count if you had to strap her in a high chair!

So basically started with 1 minute and like 5 sessions a day. I know it sounds crazy but every time she sat with NO tantrums I gave her 1 piece of candy, (like 1 gummy bear and that’s huge she knows treats are usually reserved for holidays)

As we got used to 1 we bumped it up to 3 minutes and so on and every time she did not have a tantrum she’d get the treat of her choice.

And she would only get this treat for doing the lessons, not during anything else. The teacher explained the reasoning but I’m so sorry I forgot since I’m not an expert.


Eventually my child started associating online learning as fun and started to engage more.

And now I don’t even have to give her treats lol. And it doesn’t have to be candy I saw other parents reminding their children about the race car toy or whatever toy that they could only play with after video sessions.

I’m not going to lie, I thought the teacher was BSing me at first but it eventually really did work. Because lemme tell you I wanted to strap her to that chair when we first started. I was embarrassed as heck.

My 3 year old had tantrums and freaked out if I turned on the class zoom. We would try and then I would email teacher it didn’t work. I’m expecting more of the same. She hates it beyond words.

Anonymous wrote:DD who turned 4 in June did okay with DL in the spring. We just put her at a desk with markers and paper or with a bunch of play doh and let her play with that during the lesson. She was half tuned in, half out, but it got her to sit there the entire time!

Just to add though - the hardest thing I found about it was she REALLY needed an adult to sit right there with her throughout the lessons in order to mute/unmute and make sure she was answering the right stuff when asked something.... i was on maternity leave then so it wasn’t so bad but yeah, that’s not going to work this upcoming year when I’m going to need to be working and the nanny will need to be focusing on our two other kids too...

DD who turned 4 in June did okay with DL in the spring. We just put her at a desk with markers and paper or with a bunch of play doh and let her play with that during the lesson. She was half tuned in, half out, but it got her to sit there the entire time!

Anonymous wrote:Log in and don't make them sit. Just put the computer in the corner where the kid can see it and turn the volume up.

We ended up screen sharing from the computer to the TV. Made it so much easier and our PK3er has much more fun with it.

Anonymous wrote:My 3 year old is able to do 15 minutes at a time so we’ll be fine. Lots of reinforcement and time put into me teaching the skill based on what the teacher said.

But she went from literally ONE minute in March to 15 in May. Love her teacher and wish we could have her again...

Can you describe what you did?

It doesn’t count if you had to strap her in a high chair!

My 3 year old is able to do 15 minutes at a time so we’ll be fine. Lots of reinforcement and time put into me teaching the skill based on what the teacher said.

But she went from literally ONE minute in March to 15 in May. Love her teacher and wish we could have her again...