I picked my 10 year old up from her first day at school she was stony-faced and tearful. She said he had been told off for talking and she hated her teacher. There was a bit more to it than that but I am trying to be brief.
Previous first days have been happy and she has come back enthusiastic and excited. We had a talk about it being the first day and her being understandably a bit anxious and excited and how maybe the teacher was nervous too. We talked about people being different and the need to work out ways of managing interactions with all sorts of different people. I also talked about hate being a strong word to use. I did give her reassurance and we chatted about how difficult it is for a teacher to teach if a child is chatting.
She has previously had this teacher as in reception when the children moved from class to class although she was not his class teacher.
My child is talkative and is no an angel but she makes an effort to behave and is sensitive to reprimands. She might come across to some as being confident because of this. When she is nervous she talks a lot.
Before the first day of school, she started making a poster welcoming the teacher which she did not complete. I suspect she did this because interactions had not been great in the past. She also asked if she could take a small soft object to keep in her pocket in case she got nervous.
Day 3 (yesterday) she burst into tears at bedtime and told me she had been sent to the next-door class for a short time because she had said "Yes" when she had found a glue lid during a quiet lesson. I asked her if she had been chatting before that and she said she had.
I realize it is early days and that I am only hearing my child's version of what happened. What do others think? Do I leave it and see how next week goes which is what I was planning to do? And if things are tricky next week what do others particularly teachers advise?