The kindy teacher sent the work home he complained about "not having time to finish. It was to trace "here" once, circle it from a list, color it, and write it 3 times. He wrote h, did the "e" in a bubble letter style because he saw it somewhere else on the page, erased it, wrote it again erased it... How do you write e in a bubble letter but you can't finish copying the word "here"? He's never done bubble letters before, he just copied one off the page effortlessly.
Me and the hubby were telling him stuff like, "I know it's a lot more work, but that's kind of what school's about".
He answered, "it's not a lot more work, it's only a little bit of work".
That's true. When they said he didn't have time to finish it I thought it would have been a couple of pages, not a couple of words. He wrote more words than that taking notes for fun on a movie we watched.
I've been a little worried because I don't know which one is the right answer. Worried that my kid doesn't want to miss pre-k to be in the language arts block. Worried that he might want to be in the class and it's just the third day so it hasn't got interesting yet.
I think if I see his pre-k teacher in the morning when I take him to breakfast I'm going to ask if she has a minute and ask Wyatt to do a handwriting without tears page in front of her, the ones where he's copying a few sentences at a time in a few minutes.
Then I'll tell her, I don't mind if he takes the language arts class or not. I honestly don't know if it's just like the hubby & the k teacher says, he just needs some time to adjust. But I just wanted you to see him work. Then I'll say, I trust your judgement. However you want to teach him the ropes at school.
The hubby thinks the boy was confused because it had so many types of letters on the page he thought he had to do the bubble letter ones.
