OK, so I feel awkward posting in this section, but hey ho, let's give it a go. Don't know if DS2 is exceptionally able, but he is currently advanced in some things...
DS2 has just started doing guided reading in Reception - the comment in his reading diary from the teacher was "Singersboy read brilliantly, but found it difficult to concentrate when the others were reading."
Well, duh. He has been reading fluently since the start of Reception and is now reading stuff like shorter Dick King-Smith books and the original A.A.Milne Winnie-the Pooh.
I regularly listen to children in his class read and, while some of them are reading pretty well now, there is only one other child who is approaching DS's level, and he was apparently not in DS's group.
I just can't conceive of any guided reading at the moment with the other children he named that will be useful - or interesting - to him. Don't get me wrong, in another 6 months I'm sure there will be several other truly fluent readers. But right now there aren't. How interesting is it to listen to other children who read much less well than you slowly go through a text?
DS2 is often saying that school is boring and I am not sure whether this is just because that is what children say, or whether it genuinely is. I am in the classroom regularly and he always seems to be doing something unchallenging - ordering numbers to 100, or filling in missing words in sentences.
His teacher has been very supportive in principle about his abilities, but in practice he doesn't seem to have had any classroom enrichment.
Should I let it go this year and just watch things closely in Y1? Any other experiences of early stuff in school? I guess I just feel uneasy about his experiences right now.
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singersgirl · 07/06/2006 00:01
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