well I'm always dishing out advice on here, like I know what I'm talking about half the time ...
Anyway, now it's time for me to ask for some from you all.
My DS1 is in Yr 1 at infant school, he's 5.5 (summer birthday so young in his year). He seems from a recent parents eve to be doing ok, teacher mentioned a few points to work on but I'm sure that's normal.
He has a speech difficulty (in pronunciation) which thank goodness we are now having speech therapy for, and because of that teacher has put him on SN register and done him an individual education plan (IEP) which is all fine.
She called me in for a meetign about that, and also mentioend she wants him to complete two pieces of written work per week for her, as he tends to be quite slow and not finish his work in class.
She had mentioned this before (but not as if it was a real problem) so I asked what sort of thing she meant. She showed me a piece of work they had all had to do, copying a picture with four one-word labels. They had 20 mins to do this, after chatting about it etc. Some children finished it and coloured in the picture. Some even wrote a sentence all about it. My DS drew the picture (not his best area, admittedly) and wrote two letters of one label. He was the only one in the class not to finish the work.
I was v upset, it's not as though this is stuff he can't do, his writing is actually not bad and gettign better. And in fact he is pretty keen on this sort of thing - we were out shopping yesterday and he found a little notebook in my bag and proceeded to write a sentence in it and then drew pictures of Rudolph and Santa (who he had just seen) pretty quickly too!
So what's the problem? Apparently he tends to just gaze around him vaguely in class. Has anyoen else had this? And what can I do to encourage him to concentrate more/ work harder?
Any ideas?
Sorry this is so long....
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DS1 doesn't concentrate in class - anyone got any tips? (sorry, long)
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clary · 22/11/2004 11:20
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