Hi,
I'm new here and I've joined to get help with my 5 year old DS. We live in Scotland so he started school in August last year. Until that point he was an only child ,his little brother was born in November. He's a fairly bright kid, was counting to 50 plus before school, reading a little, writing but not to the school standard and would also attempt to spell words they way they sounded. I feel he had a very good start to go to school with and expected him to do well. He had attended nursery before this from age 7 months, he had got very bored in the last 12 months and was more than ready for the challenge of school.
So he is where it all feels like it has gone wrong. He's what I think is a typical boy behaviour, he gets side tracked very easily and easily excited when with other kids. I think most kids will be like this? He's not badly behaved when out with us - he will walk beside you, follow instruction and rarely gives me cause to shout at him in the street and believe me I have very high standards.
So school starts well - he's in the top of the class - but he's always on the traffic light system. He is either getting a warning or into minor trouble, we end up going to see the teacher - she confirms he's in the top 4 of the class, but that he has ants in his pants and can't seem to concentrate and his co-ordination isn't good - so his writing is poor.This is a kid who at hope plays jigsaws and lego for hours.
To cut a long story short - what sort of behaviour level should he be at in school? Everyone in the class has at 1 time or another been on the traffic lights. This week he went to Blue from Green(3 levels up) for using a pen instead of pencil and making a mess of his workbook by doing this.
I had words with her at the recent parents night about how he's not progressing as fast at school as he is at home - he reads books at home in a day - 3 weeks the last school book was in his bag. Maths he can do way more that plus 1 and I'm not sure if it is her picking on him or he is the worst pupil ever. When he's coming home I'm on him like a ton of bricks for not being on green and we are working on all the things she says he struggles with and I'm starting to feel like a total failure.
Thanks in advance
Andrea