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Anyone else stunned by how much their reception child has learnt in 3 weeks?!!?

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Flamesparrow · 28/09/2007 10:11

She got her first words home yesterday - and she sat sounding out the letters so she could read the word

I had been going with the theory that at least the first half term was pretty much just play, but there seems to have been a lot of learning through play.

I'm stunned, but very impressed

She wants to count lots too, and is suddenly knowing that two numbers together make twenty something etc.

(I am probably just a very naive first time school mum )

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tortoiseSHELL · 28/09/2007 10:13

no. Dd has learnt

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Eating blue bananas
Where d'you think he put the skin?
Down the King's Pyjamas.

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Eating green bananas
Where d'you think he put the skin?
Down the King's Pyjamas.

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Eating red bananas
Where d'you think he put the skin?
Down the King's Pyjamas.

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Eating pink bananas
Where d'you think he put the skin?
Down the King's Pyjamas.

morningpaper · 28/09/2007 10:13

Wow that's great!

I said to mine yesterday "I wonder what you will learn tomorrow?!" and she said, scathingly, "We don't learn anything under Year 1. In reception we just play."

Oh I see dear

Surfermum · 28/09/2007 10:15

Dd hasn't told me a thing about school. Every time I ask she says "I'll tell you later". She could be reading War and Peace for all I know .

Jacaranda · 28/09/2007 10:18

No I think that sounds great Flamesparrow. DD keeps cominghome saying she is bored! She leanrt about the number 4 this week

I get the impression they are going to do more with them after half term and although she is desperate to learn to read I am holding back for fear of teaching her bad habits but I do feel frustrated for her.

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Flamesparrow · 28/09/2007 10:18

lmao @ Humpty Dumpty! She has also learnt to call people X Poopoohead as a term of affection

Surfer - DD won't tell me anything if I ask, she gently drops it into conversation when I'm not expecting it. It took a week to find out she goes in the computer room (and you have to type RG to log in )

Loving yours MP! I keep getting told "You don't know everything"

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tortoiseSHELL · 28/09/2007 11:59

Dd also informed me that they did dancing in the hall, but that she did not join in - she apparently sat and watched 'because I didn't want to take off my shoes and tights and see my toes - I only want to do tap dancing so I can wear special shoes'. !!! Explained to her that it was unlikely that they would do tap dancing, if she WANTED to do a dancing class we could look for one, but at school it was usually best not to be too specific about what sort of dancing should be on the curriculum.

She is a bit of a smartie pants though - she told me that she had told her teacher all about kangaroos - "what did you tell?" her I asked apprehensively - "oh, just that they are a special sort of mammal because they feed their babies with milk and don't lay eggs, and they are special because their babies crawl up their mummy's tummy into their pouch until they're big enough to come out, and that they're called marsupials. Oh and mum I told her my favourite composer is Rachmaninov as well.' she is a bit of a show off...

nutcracker · 28/09/2007 12:06

I am pleasantly surprised too.

Ds went not even being able to hold a pencil correctly, let alone write anything, but now he can do the first 2 letters of his name, and he is so much more interested in learning than ever before.

tortoiseSHELL · 28/09/2007 12:08

ours are definitely still in the 'play all day' stage!

OrmIrian · 28/09/2007 12:11

No. Not so as you'd notice

codswallop · 28/09/2007 12:11

yes i am stunned bty the reading
maybe he is g and t?

tortoiseSHELL · 28/09/2007 12:12

Dd is definitely G&T at arguing the toss.

codswallop · 28/09/2007 12:13

lol ds3 is oging ot eb a defecne solcitor i reckon

OrmIrian · 28/09/2007 12:14

Well if we're boasting DS is definitely G&T at pretending to be a monkey dog. And roaring. But that was a home taught skill.

tortoiseSHELL · 28/09/2007 12:14

Dd managed to get a sad face on her 3rd day, because her teacher wanted her to come and do counting, and dd explained VERY patiently why she didn't want to do that, because she was busy with playing with the pirate ship, and really, counting wasn't very interesting...

ds1 has NEVER had a sad face! And he is Y2. Very different children...

Marina · 28/09/2007 12:15

Dd is resolutely resisting all attempts to be educated, although she is interested in the "clatter dancing" in the hall, like tortoiseshell's dd
Actually though, she clearly likes the IT time and has become alarmingly proficient at stealthily powering up the PC and logging in - just to her own little area, thankfully.
She told me snippily not to disturb her yesterday, she was doing her e-mails
I looked on the screen and thanks to Works' auto-correct function there were twenty lines of garbage interspersed with "tinworker" "lovely", and very interestingly, "ponce".

OrmIrian · 28/09/2007 12:16

Oh I do love the 'sad face' I'd like to see what expression the teacher would really like to use.

tortoiseSHELL · 28/09/2007 12:16

lol marina!

Ds1 emailed my mother shortly after starting reception, and sent her a VERY long message which said dog2dog2dog2dog2dog2dog2dog2dog etcetcetc

OrmIrian · 28/09/2007 12:16

ROFL at ponce marina

alittlebitshy · 28/09/2007 12:16

yes it's amazing!!!!
She could read the odd word before, but in 3 weeks she has got up to (i think) 18 flash cards, can read small books (ie those with the words on flash cards) and is properly sounding the words out........before she'd just guess (and obviously because she's only 4, got it totally wrong lol). She's v v confused by non phonetic words though cos it messes up her new skill of sounding them out......
And her mouse control has suddenly got better (of the computer kind not the squaky kind) - .

NineUnlikelyTales · 28/09/2007 12:16

My DS is G&T at eating toast and listening to other people read. But I don't like to boast about it, strangers come up to me and tell me how they have heard about DS.

jo25 · 28/09/2007 12:16

I am amazed to. ds has always been very good at maths but has never really 'got' letters, he understood the whys,were's etc but as far as reading goes it was no go. He brought his second reading book home this week and is able to read 90% of it, uses pictures for the other 10% but hey he is still learning. I am so proud of him.

tortoiseSHELL · 28/09/2007 12:16

ormirian - I know what face I'd like to use when dd gets in that mood...

Sexonlegs · 28/09/2007 12:17

Surfermum, pmsl, I could have written your post. I ask dd too what she has done and she says exactly the same "I'll tell you later!". 3 weeks on and I am still in the dark. I know they have painted a picture as that has come home!!

flatmouse · 28/09/2007 12:17

Apparently there is a sad face - and DD is never ever ever going to be on the sad face.
There are a couple of boys in her class who DD says are regularly on the sad face. I wouldn't be at all suprised if DD didn't suggest to the teacher that people should be on the sad face. She has that self-righteous glow at times.

I've learnt that they no more test the reading tree words (8 words on a sheet to learn) now than they did when DS was in reception 3 yrs ago.

tortoiseSHELL · 28/09/2007 12:17

pmsl - very naughty nineunlikelytales

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