Reception teacher... Should I tell her?

[Galena]

DD (4.1) starts school in September. At the moment she appears bright. I know children develop at different rates, etc and I'm certainly not saying she's gifted and talented. However, she reads pretty fluently (Enjoys reading blue banana books, and can read longer/harder ones but lacks the stamina) and is beginning to write.

Today she has written (completely unaided):
I Have five catapilers
There in a cup
I licke my caterpilers

I have a meeting with her new teacher and head on Wednesday (Our school don't do home visits, but do individual meetings with the teachers instead) and I don't know whether to take the exercise book she's been doing her writing in or not? (Previous writing is: 'Im gong to sool in Setber' and 'he Has big eyes' (referring to a toy cat who does, indeed, have big eyes!)) All the writing has been completely unaided because I wanted DD to be able to see what she can do on her own.

So, do I tell/show her new teacher what she can do, or shall I let her find out for herself?

realise... shit i should just quit my job now.... sigh.

bare you're very welcome on my thread. :)

I am a R teacher and I'd love to see a book like that!

Thanks galena
you were right i was on the mobile app

As a teacher I would say definitely take it - you are a partnership.

I think both home visits and individual meeting is to get to know as much as possible about your child before they start school.

I would show them, I was lucky as the year r teachers knew DS as he attended a pre school they worked with on occasion. I think it would be useful to have told them if they weren't aware he could read and write as I am sure he would have just gone along with the basic phonics stuff to have an easy ride

As it is a small and friendly school I would mention it. The school DS1 went to first did not appreciate being told that he could read before he attended and were very offhand stating that "they assess the children themselves". It took until nearly the end of reception for the teacher to tell me she 'had just realised DS could read amazingly well' .
DS2 and 3 went to the nursery attached to the school before starting there (Well DS3 will start reception in September) so they were already aware of what they can/can't do. They spend more time saying to me "Did you realise your DS3 can do..." and generally I don't . With DS2 because he had already been there, they knew exactly where to start his baseline tests and within a month or so were teaching him with the year above. In his current school I am fairly certain they would have realised his ability whether he had attended nursery or not, if I had said anything or not, but having had different experiences elsewhere I wouldn't like to generalise!

Personally I didn't tell the teachers and they all found dc's ability fairly quickly.
There will be parents that will be showing that sort of thing and sometimes the child may have written it themselves, or the parent may have stood over them going "now a c... you know how to write a c", or the parent may have had their hand over the child's hand while they wrote it, or the parent may have written it on their own.
So I would expect the teacher to take anything like that with a pinch of salt until they saw evidence for themselves.

If you wanted to do it in a subtle way then get her to make and write a card for her teacher. That way the teacher can potentially see what she does.

In my dc's school they have a little booklet that they get the children to do (with a teacher sitting with them) which shows what the child can do upon arrival, from colouring in through to full reading using games. You get it back at the end of year 2 and it's a lovely reminder of how far they've gone.

She sounds very clever - the school need to know as she will be well ahead of most of the children in her class imo. So yes I would take the book.