Nursery questions

[RBBMummy]

My son has recently gained the ability to ask questions but today he communicated they are being ignored at nursery. Granted they are questions like, "how much does a cloud weigh?" and "why is the moon sometimes a crescent?" but it seems they ignore them rather than say anything. Is it worth bringing it up with them?

How old is he OP? I've never known a child under the age of about 10 to use the word 'crescent'

I think it depends on what he means by he 'is being ignored' If the staff are just saying to him "I don't know" then at least they are acknowledging him but if they are purely ignoring him then that's a bit mean

(Childcare worker here)

Agree with namechanger
The language seems pretty unusual for a child at Nursery.
That aside, it seems unlikely that a member of staff at Nursery would be ignoring a child.
How, exactly, did he 'communicate' that his deep and meaningful questions were being ignored ? Did he give you the context ?

He's 4. From what I understand he has asked a few questions but they aren't acknowledging a question has been asked, instead replying with things like "why don't you play with the Legos"

BackforGood he sometimes repeats conversations he's had word for word

If it were me, I'd tell him next time he gets mugged off which is what it sounds like it is he should just say (nicely)
'But I'd like to know......insert question here'

Either that or I'd get him to mug them off back, and say something like
'Do you not know the answer??'

But that's just me

The language seems pretty unusual for a child at Nursery

I don’t think it’s unusual at all, my son had a large vocabulary at age 4 also.

RBBMummy

I would defo bring it up, the nursery shouldn’t be ignoring his questions.

namechanger200 unfortunately he wouldn't be able to say that yet

My kids knew what a crescent moon was pre-school but I'd have left them out for the wolves if they'd said 'legos'.
It's Lego.
The world will end with this misuse.

Actually it's Lego if its one type, Legos if it's multiple types

It's not 'actually'. I'll leave just two examples here.

twitter.com/richardvreeves/status/502111740738674689?lang=en

thebrickblogger.com/2013/06/lego-legos-does-it-matter/

4 year olds often go through a relentless questions stage, and when you have a class of 20 or 30 of them asking endless questions it's not possible to answer them all.
Remember there's one adult for 8/10/13 children, it's very different to being 1:1 with your child at home.

My DCs asked similar questions at that age and I don't find the vocabulary at all unusual.

The word 'crescent' appears in shape books for children so why wouldn't a child know it?

Regarding questions, the staff don't know the answers.

Ask your DS to remember the questions and then ask you them later. If necessary you can google together to find them out.

Oh, and definitely, DEFINITELY Lego.

Maybe she had answered the previous 52 questions and now it was time for him to go and play. It's hard to tell without being there.

No, he is only just able to ask questions. Asking questions is one of his goals there. He has only ever asked a handful

Unless you are there all the time you have no idea how many questions he and other children are asking.

It's not always a good time to ask a question and 4 year olds are not always great at recognising when an adult is busy.

He's just not going to get every single question answered in a busy preschool, I would adjust your expectations.