... am probably being a bit daft but DS is currently in Reception. I've just had to move him to a different school as I have moved nearly 200 miles away.
I have a couple of concerns
DS has a sensory integration problem which means he struggles with fine motor skills a bit. I didn't realise how much of a problem this was until today.
The class are doing a project about Space and one of the things they are doing is bringing home a toy alien with a diary. The idea is that they do something with the alien, draw a picture or take a photograph and write in the diary about what the alien did.
DS having just joined the school is one of the last to have the alien - the diary has been an eye-opener for me. Some of the children have fantastic writing skills - even those who don't have managed several lines (even if it isn't legible). DS can spell his name but can barely write it.
Ds has just written the diary - he drew a picture of the alien and write the letters "J" "L" and "E" plus several other scrawled letters which are not legible - he now doesn't want to do any more and says he is tired. I've tried asking him what he wants to say and have written it verbatim in yellow for him to trace over but he is having none of it. I feel a bit silly as the info in the front says the entry must be in the child's own writing. I was only hoping that tracing over my letters might give him some practice.
What is the normal progress here? I am just worried that he is being left behind already.
I am not finding his new school that approachable - the SENCO teacher had no idea who he was and didn't seem to know anything about him before finding some scrawled notes made during a phone call with the school DS left.
Any advice from any teachers or other parents oput there?