Hi - I'm sure this is totally normal but I'm wondering what's going wrong with my dd. As far as I'm aware, she's a perfectly normal four year old. Can read some cvc words, recognises numbers one to ten and can count, writing completely unrecognisable, knows all letter sounds etc etc. Nothing remarkable, but I wouldn't say backward, either.
Trouble is, according to her teachers she doesn't know her letters, doesn't know her numerals at all, can't hold a pen. Etc etc etc. It's like they are talking about a different child. They seem very keen in getting her to show them these things so they can tick some kind of boxes. And she hasn't.
They got the head of the EYFS bit of the school to do some reading with her, and she also reckons she knows her letter sounds, can blend words, do high frequency words etc - but still her own teacher appears to think she can't do any of it and refuses to read with her.
The head of EYFS is still doing so, but that is very occasional, and books aren't getting changed at all because her own teacher won't do this..
As for the numerals, they pulled us aside this week and said that they were worried that she doesn't know them. I played a game with her on the way down to school this am and got her to identify them all fine (as she has been doing for months). Is it a problem that she won't show her own teacher what she is doing?
I realise that I am beginning to sound like a deluded nutter at school, which is not ideal - but really, she is doing these things, and I'm not prompting her, and her childminder also thinks she can do them. What can I/ should I do? Anything? She goes up to Reception from the school nursery in Jan, and I'm worried that she will go up with some terrible assessment that in no way matches her ability. I don't think it's doing her confidence any good either.
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is this normal - DD seems a different child at school
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paranoidofpreschool · 11/10/2011 14:50
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