DO you listen to reading? GOD you can tell alot about a kid cant you

[100PerCentCod]

i FIND it so intersting frm a noseynessfactor.

who are you talking to cod? I'm confused!

I listen to Yr 1 read once a week and tbh the only thing I notice is whether they have had any more comments since the last time I commented iyswim. I'm gonna be looking at the nails now aren't I?

There is a world of a difference between a mucky puppy and the sour smell that some children have because they are not washed often enough/clothes left dirty.

There is normal dirt and neglect.

Well, I do wash them sometimes...

But I'm not sure they're ever really Mary Archer-style fragrant...

Actually, I think I'm probably just as judgemental, but in reverse.

I rather despise the starched look for children.

And parents who ask for harder reading books

yes that was me
i hate doign it.
but htey are so piss esasy its a waste fo time

oh I've done that. Felt such a ponce.

That's why we don't read them. We read somethingmore interesting instead. Teacher's perfectly happy with that. It's just this ridiculous parent helper...

i go up to the ta on my knees offerinf myself at her feet then reverse out of the room
bet she says " god that cod is a pita" as i leave

I am paranoid about me being clean, as I well remember the teachers who ponged!

Mr Hopkins in Maths, breath like a buzzard.

i used to brush my teethe at lunch so i didnt smellwhen i taught

I grovel a bit "i'm so sorry to bother you, but I wonder if etc "

A child once told me I smelled like custard.

"But I love custard Miss"

It was a perfume with vanilla tones. I was never sure whether to wear it after that...

lol

think you should take it as a compliment

this thread is too cryptic for me.

i gather you read with someone or something ...unclear erm umm. i cant be arsed unravelling someones life beefore being opinionated about it.

no i dont think you can know a lot about a child by what they read,

my youngest would be a non entity - or socially deprived or some such nonsense.

my girl would be your dream pupil

both same parents - ubringing - even womb.

so no.

i think its nto the rading but the whoel interraction
what they say abotu the pictures etc etc
i had a chinese gril who had only loved here fo 2 years
was on level 6
fab girl

I must remember to include in DS's reading book when he has a bath, what he had for breakfast, what laundry products we use, and whether he has had a fruit shoot...anything else you helpful readers would like me to include?

inside leg
i write
" ds2 read this book no problem" every tiem

I asked for something my dd might enjoy as she was finding the books she had been given a bit tiresome. The teacher wrote back "I'll do my best!" Last night we had a gruesome non fiction book which gave her nightmares. Great! That'll teach me!

We've had "Commentgate" at our school too, so some teachers don't let you sign the child's record book, only the school's record. I just write something anodyne like "Well done, Billy!", unless they were brilliant, in which case I'll be more fulsome.

There was a thread some months ago about what to write in the reading record when you heard them read at school. I've given up with DS2 now and just put my initials and "ps 56 - 63" or whatever.

i know of a mum who used to help out once a week in the mornings and also listen while they read while my son was in yr 2 (now in yr3)
then in the afternoons while waiting for them to come out she would stand and gossip with the other mum who helped out about the kids, she would say oh so and so can only read at some certain level or she would tell another mum what another child wasnt able to do today etc, where they got stuck. and they somehow knew what all the childrens SATS results were last summer after talking to the teacher about so and so.

i never stood with these women but you could hear exactly what they were saying, i would have felt bad for the childs parent if they were standing there. im friends witha teacher at the school so went and told on them when it got to bad. Was i wrong to have done this do you think? i personally wouldnt have wanted them to be discussing ds1s results out in the playground, (even though he got the top mark 68 out of 70 for his reading )

Also if you are a mum who helps out by listening to them read are you supossed to have a CRB check?

blu - dont worry - you dont need to.
Teavher will smell frosted shreddies from 100m - ditto whether or not your child bathed last night and when their clothes were last washed - its innate

i used to write fulsome screeds about dd1s reading

now I just tick and say 'fluent'

or 'struggled'

Have burning desire to write something more interesting or cryptic than 'fine' 'fluent' 'good reading' etc

Word association with teacher perhaps?

beckybrastraps, I like you

In the high school where I work now, I always find myself looking at shirt cuffs. You can tell a lot by seeing who has grubby cuffs on a Monday