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Polarbear ,
You see , the chart that i get from school , it mentions :
- power up 8.30-9.25
- specials 9.25-10.15
- language arts 10.15-12.20
-recess 12.20-12.50
-lunch 12.50-1.25
-math 1.25-3.00
-scie/ss 3.00-3.30
So , during those time whether it's an hour or more , it seems like every subject lasts more than an hour anyway , teacher gives instruction , explaining , teaching new things , then the children are given the assignments to work on what they just learned , am i right ? Now between the time the children started working on the assignments until the class ends and moving to another subject , according to DS , he has to wait that long between 30-45 minutes . Him and another girl always finish first , and the girl always reads reads and reads . Teacher has no problem at all with her , but not with our DS . DS brought books too but unfortunately he calls himself 'not street smart ' because obviously he still talks and causing problems , all the while still reading or writing or drawing or creating something .
I guess it's probably not a good fit between him and teacher . They are in class from 8.30 to 3.30 with only one hour long break? It is a wonder they don't go insane let alone talk.
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Howlerkarma ,
i agree with you , i totally understand that if DS talks too much while the teacher is testing few students to read to her , yes it is disrupting , and i can see why he gets in trouble for that . I am not blaming teacher 100% on this because DS needs to learn to control his needs to talk too .
We did ask DS why doesn't his friend who finishes first like he does manage to stay away from trouble ? He said all she does just grab her book out and started reading . DS has this urge when he needs to tell something to someone , he'd like to say it as soon as possible , or else he's afraid he might forget . I suggested to him , bring a note and write it down . I've tried everything from books , journals , drawing comics . Occasionally just reading works , sometimes busy with drawing comics work . It's really on and off ..
We tried talking with teacher too , that maybe doing this might work or doing that might work , i even suggested to his teacher that if she needs help such as cleaning the board or the desk or whatever , she can make DS do that so that he can be busy doing something other than not doing anything . Once in a while she made him organizing the book shelf , or cutting bear bucks for her . Or giving DS more problems to solve , anything just give him something to occupy his time and stimulate his brain .But as far as helping other students , i doubt she'd let him . During car line rider , DS helped his friend with math problem , not giving the answer but helped him with addition and regrouping , and the teacher said don't help your friend .
DS really likes to get into an argument too , we had a big talk last night about this , he did admit , he likes talking with adults , but we told him adults don't like talking with you if you argue with them . He thinks by arguing , he can eventually change their mind , so that he gets his way , he admitted this yesterday . We told him , save that skill for later on , maybe you can be a lawyer LOL ..
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Puffin ,
yeap , 8.30 til 3.30 is a long day !
I remember back when i was in school i had 2 times recess , but for only 15 minutes , school was from 7.00 am til 1 pm , monday through saturday ( this was from 3rd grade til high school , the younger ones only goes til 11 am or 12.15 pm ) , but we always had 15 minutes recess at 9.15 til 9.30 and then second one was at 11.15 til 11.30 . You can bring snack and eat your snack too during that recess , nobody told us we had to finish snack first etc .. no teacher supervised us .
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We tried talking with teacher too , that maybe doing this might work or doing that might work , i even suggested to his teacher that if she needs help such as cleaning the board or the desk or whatever , she can make DS do that so that he can be busy doing something other than not doing anything . I had to chuckle at this...we offered many suggestions too. We suggested DD could organize the books in the room by reading level or alphabetical order. We suggested all sorts of organizational things she could do that would be helpful to the teacher like pulling the staples out of the bulletin boards and sorting supplies, etc. We even said that DD would enjoy walking around the room to pick up all the staples on the floor just so she could organize them into whatever categories she could think up (bent, straight, closed, broken). We seriously thought this idea could really go places because she could make charts, graphs, work with fractions, etc. just by picking up staples. Obviously we were grasping at ideas by that point, but we weren't asking for anything really "out there" just for someone to be a little creative in keeping her occupied when her work was done and therefore helping her stay out of trouble.
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This is absolutely not normal. You need to find a new school. While it is not unsual for a very bright kid to complete his work in one-quarter to one-half of the alotted time, I am flabbergasted that the class would be expected to be working independently on assigments for 45-65 minutes at a stretch three times in one day. That's potentailly 3 hours and 15 minutes in a day when the teacher is not actively teaching and the students are not working together or in groups. That's crazy!
The fact that your DS has previously been to a normal school makes this school all the harder to tolerate.
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