Nursery behaviour help!

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Hi all,

My 3 year old only child has just started nursery, and has settled well after a couple of teary goodbyes a few weeks ago. My mum who picks him up has just called to say that for the past week he has been sliding out the classroom and door on the floor from nursery pretending to be a snake (animal obsessed at the minute) and is holding other children up. She mentioned the nursery teacher seemed annoyed, but hasn’t actually addressed it to them.

I want to obviously make my child aware that he should walk out sensibly like the other children, but is there a best way to do this? Should I have a conversation with the teacher at drop off to let her know we are aware, or just leave it be? Poor child doesn’t mean any harm lol

Can't your mum just tell him to walk nicely and he can be a snake at home?

Just explain to him that he's slowing down his friends getting to their parents and could be walk out like a xxx (insert two legged animal he could pretend to be here)?

Very very normal three year old behaviour, if infuriating as so much normal three year old behaviour is!

Just keep talking to him about the expectations of his behaviour in nursery - you could speak to the staff to find out the language they use (listening ears, walking feet, kind hands etc).

If there's a problem the nursery will raise it with you, but that would likely be more extreme stuff like hitting and biting.

Oh and yes, if your mum's there she should be telling him to get up.

Why on earth is she not picking him up/telling him to get up?

Thank you for all the suggestions. To be honest, I was wondering why telling him at the time wasn’t an option, but I’ll make sure to bring it up with her. Hate feeling like I’m telling my mum what to do when she’s doing us a favour I suppose

Sorry but this is pretty funny.😁 Love his lack of self consciousness. And he could care less about the other kids ! Maybe he could be the last in line ?

Snakes dont like being at nursery as they often get stepped on by other dc. Snakes much prefer being at home where they can wiggle all over the place. However good monkeys really like being at nursery as they have lots of dc to play with and lots of things to learn

Thank you all so much for the help! I talked to my son about the different animals he could pretend to be, and we have been practicing different ways he can walk on his two feet out of school, with some hilarious suggestions from him ☺️ also had a chat with mum and dad about setting rules about how we walk out of school. Appreciate all the help!