Books at nursery

[5FootMama]

Ok. Small problem for sure. But AIBU to think this is a it shit of the nursery?

Our nursery sends books home each week, and we have to write in a reading record.
DD is 3. And hasn't had a book at all since September. So I messaged, wondering if they'd stopped the books at home thing.
Got a msg back saying "oh it's just because it's start of term, DD will get get one his week"
I clarified and said she hasn't had one this year.

Msg back saying "Room leader says DD has had one every week"
I said 'no, hasn't happened '
And asked why they thought she had a ook each week, when clearly there's no reading record.

Got a msg saying something like "oh there's been confusion in the book records...."

Huh?

To be honest I'd be annoyed at having the admin of having to do a reading record when we read books every day at home anyway, I think I'd be delighted not to have to bother

Why does a 3 year old need a book home and a reading record? If this was our nursery I’d be refusing it rather than chasing it. Just enjoy books at home.

I’m not sure what anyone here can do - it sounds like you’ve done everything you needed by speaking to nursery. If you’re happy with her interest in books then you’re probably fine!

I have a three year old at nursery and there's no way I'd do homework with him or fill in any kind of reading record. Which is a long way of saying that I wouldn't have bothered chasing it up at all because I'd just be relieved to not bother. He's got years and years of homework ahead of him.

It's totally unnecessary but a bit crap of them to say they do it and then don't!

I imagine something like this is easier to discuss during pick up. Obviously there has been some miscommunication but over message its hard to work out what the root is.

Don't you have books at home anyway? Take her to the library?
I've never heard of a nursery requiring a 3 year old to do reading homework and fill in a reading record.
I certainly wouldn't want to fill in a reading record for child who isn't even in school!

My guess will be there is another child with the same name... (so John A and John L) and they've been recording the wrong one.

But its probably just an extra thing if the kids want it rather than part of the curriculum

I wouldn't get too worked up about it, but I would be slightly miffed if the nursery I was paying a fair chunk of my wages on was getting something so basic, so wrong.

I would also check that this reading record isn't something that could catch you out at a later date e.g. at DDs end of year/term review 'Oh DD is doing fantastically with her speech, but we noticed that she's behind on her reading'

We had a similar situation with DS(3). Library books come home on Wednesdays and he was unwell one Wednesday so he returned the book the next day instead. Then, because he “hadn’t returned the book”, no new book was issued for three weeks but no one told us, there was just no new book. When I raised it, they said he wouldn’t get a new library book until he returned the old one, we said we had returned it, they had a look and realised we had. Then he started to get books on Wednesdays again. Could it be a similar mix-up with your nursery?

mynameiscalypso · Today 11:07
I have a three year old at nursery and there's no way I'd do homework with him or fill in any kind of reading record. Which is a long way of saying that I wouldn't have bothered chasing it up at all because I'd just be relieved to not bother. He's got years and years of homework ahead of him“

How is sharing a book together homework?

Lots of households have no books. I think it’s excellent that the children get to take them home.

a THREE year old has 'homework'? I wouldn't be happy. Is this a pre-school type thing rather than a private nursery? This is why I avoided pre-schools, with all the uniform etc, it's too much for them too young

Is not homework as such. DD reads like 8+ books a day anyway,so it wasn't a concern that she wasn't getting books. I asked just out of curiosity really, wondering if they'd stopped the scheme.

Then the whole errors came out. I guess im more worried that they might be making errors in important things???

Are they expecting her to put the books in her bag herself? If so they probably aren't making it as far as the bag.

OFSTED

Early Years settings are expected to promote learning at home. Sending books home is an easy way of doing this.

@mynameiscalypso when my daughter was 3 she was in the nursery class at the local primary school. They got to bring books home and we had a reading diary.
It wasn't 'homework'. It was just reading books together and I quite liked keeping a note of what books were read. I would sometimes write things like "she loved "Mog and the Baby" - have you got any of the other Mog books please".
It was a nice way of having communication.
Not all parents filled theirs in. Not all parents read the books. It wasn't compulsory.

Mmmm.....so that explains my DD's gifts from her childminder and nursery.

How does that work if your DD wanted to read the same book 200 times?

@Reugny there were certain books she bought home several times. The children were often allowed to choose.
Parents could go into school and do a reading session once a week. I used to end up with half a dozen 3 years olds around me (because not all parents could attend) and favourites would be read over and over.
There was a hilarious mix and match book which was read several million times - I just had to say "shall we read it" and the children would run off to find it.

How does that work if your DD wanted to read the same book 200 times?“

Join a library?

@MrsSkylerWhite yes we went to the library, bought books from charity shops and if something really was a firm favourite I would go and buy a brand new copy.
Some of the books I bought got donated to the school when they were finally outgrown. Although we kept some. Even though she's 14 we still have all the Mog books 😂

I guess she'd bring the same book home each week??? We are part of our library thanks and local book swap and reading groups.
there's no issue with her not having a nursery book, the issue was they thought she had one, and clearly didn't. It's made me wonder what else is being missed.

Whoops, realised that wasn't to me