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

[Flamesparrow]

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 )

We can share it slayerette

Hmph
I am sure dd will learn to read sometime this decade! She is really a baby though, August birthday.
Have been stalked by pushy mum asking me what it is like to have not one but two summer-loser-inadequate-scholars btw

marina, keep a shot gun ready for pushy mothers. Ds2 at babygym always sparks the comments as he is small and can't walk, and once they find out he's 17 months, the barbs really come out - 'are you worried about him' 'he must be talking - oh he's not, oh right' 'my child was walking at 8 months' 'are you going to get him referred?'

pmsl at this thread. We had a note in dd1's book bag to advise us what the topic of conversation for the week was. We were to spend a few minutes with her and she was to also spend time with a friend or other relative discussing:

how failure can be turned in to success.

FFS! I haven't a clue!!

DD has decided that she prefers packed lunches over school dinners; that Flynn is definitely her best friend and that she loves her teacher.

Academic achievement? Nil points

Hmm Ds main area of progress seems to have been learning how to get round the no running rule (he 'runs when no one is looking').

Mine learnt - that if you eat to much carrot your face turns orange . Though not sure it was the teacher who taught him that.

dd insists she has done nothing at all since she started! But she seems to know some more letter sounds, and be much better at numbers. Her writing still leaves much to be desired though - can't get her to do her 't's and number '3's the right way! never mind sure it will come...

My DS (4) is on the autistic spectrum. Can count to 100 in French, can write joined-up (self-taught) and currently reading Patrick Moore's Guide to Astronomy...

...but he cannot put his shoes on by himself, can't figure out how to eat a packed lunch and doesn't understand the concept of friendship whatsoever.

Gonna be an interesting year...

DS2 has learnt that he loves "music class" and hymn practice

DD1 has learned to appreciate 'the people from Sainsbury's'. Apparently they visited the class, and gave the children lots of pitta bread, cheese and tomatoes so they could make sandwiches. DD1 even brought home a picture she had drawn of 'the people from Sainsbury's'

My friend's ds came home after his first day in reception and told her that he had had a conference call, eaten a take-away and then flown on 2 planes to Taiwan .