My 6 year old just moved up in his activity - he was on the 3-5 class and now he is in the 6-10 class.
He is really ready to move up as the younger class is now full of 3 year olds and he just doesn't want to be in there any more but the older class isn't really working.
It is a different teacher and a huge age range (though not that many kids - 12 or so total).My son finds the teacher and style a bit intimidating and basically just sits on the side. Unless I say something to the assistant teacher, and ask for her help getting him involved, what seems to happen is they just ignore him. Their attitude seems to be that if he doesn't want to join in, they will just leave him there until he does. Is this reasonable at his age?
I don't expect them to baby him or give him loads of individual attention but just ignoring him completely doesn't feel right? I think he needs a bit of encouragement to join in, perhaps partnering him (it's that kind of activity) with one of the other kids he has moved up with. When I said this to the teacher, he kind of agreed to try it but basically implied my son just needs to join in and get on with it and left me feeling like maybe I am being a bit overly demanding.
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