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Kindergarten babysitting game part 23/18/2024 If possible, volunteer to help out in the classroom so the teacher can have more 1-on-1 time for those kids that need it. As you pointed out, boredom can definately influence behavior, and I would hate for her to decide at this early age that she doesn't like school! Ask to sit in on the class and observe (as another PP mentioned, what you hear from a 5 or 6 y.o. I would worry significantly more about her boredom, and talk to the teacher about your concerns. Plus, if you look at the kindy academic goals/objectives, I bet your daughter already can meet most of them. I guess my thoughts for your specific situation are these: I wouldn't worry in the least about the 's kindergarten, and they learn through play and hands-on experiences, and they are working on so much more than academics. (I like the idea of my kids being able to get up and move around). Hopefully, your daughter will be able to do more of those things, even if she has to stay in her seat to do it. I would like to think that your child's teacher has academic enrichment activities in the classroom like math manipulatives, board games,puzzles, books, etc. I am also upset, though, by the fact that our district has only 15 minutes of recess for kindergarteners (really, only 15 minutes of recess for 5 and 6 year olds?!?!?) they would be learning empathy, social skills, responsibility, never mind the fact that kids usually LOVE to be excused from class to be a "helper"! ALL of THESE things, in my opinion, are just as important, if not MORE important than filling out yet another worksheet of tracing numbers (important, too, though as my kids can recognize and count numbers to 100 but still write many of their numbers backwards). I wouldn't mind the idea of one of my kids going down to the office to help someone (as long as it isn't taking 20 or 30 mins. Without getting too long winded, I will say that I would be pretty upset if my kids were getting more WORKSHEETS to keep them busy.they do plenty of those already. THe teacher stressed that the schedule that she has written is a GOAL to work toward for later this fall.they are still now working on learning how to "go to school" (packing/unpacking their bags, lining up, following directions, etc) and that now takes much longer than the scheduled time, as well as the whole getting-to-know-you process. We had our back to school night last night (kids have been in school for 2 weeks). I'm not a teacher, just a mom to 3 Kindergarteners this year (and former School Social Worker).
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