DS is not yet 5 and has been in Reception for 10 weeks now. He loves it and looks forward to it, especially playtime and running around wit the other kids etc etc. I was surprised because at pre-school he didn't make any friends and was socially awkward, so it was gret to hear him talking about his school friends ........
But now I have been watching him run around in the playground before school with his friends and actually he is alongside them but not really with them. He tries to join in but they don't really interact with him, but they do with each other. He is totally on the fringe. He says hello and goodbye to all the kids each day and most of them virtually blank him. This morning in the playground he did his usual thing of running alongside the throng and one of the other little lads just turned round and said, go away, you aren't in our game.
I am totally heartbroken - he wants to play and run around and be just like the others but the others in the class seem to have already made little friendships and cliques that don't include him. As it happens the mums have done the same and I feel on the outside too. I can live with that but he can't. He has never been on a playdate ever at preschool or school, and i woudln't want to ask anyone from his school back here because I suspect they wouldn't want too.
There is nothing wrong with him, and he likes similar things to the other kids so I don't understand it. It makes me so upset to think of him being excluded by the others.