We had our meeting with her teacher and overall I feel like it went pretty well.
Before we even had a chance to bring it up, her teacher talked about her perfectionist and listed a whole laundry list of things that they were doing in the classroom to help her with it. It seems like a common problem for her is that she really pushes herself to do the work of the older kids in class (so it goes up to 6 year olds there) and then freaks out when she's not able to do it immediately. Next semester she won't be the youngest any longer because a number of kids are moving up so it might help things a bit, we'll see. Her teacher suggested playing more games at home with her (especially ones she doesn't win automatically) so she gets used to losing and practising. So far that's been going well (despite some tears at first) and we plan on picking up some more games for Christmas presents.
It does sound like PE is NOT going well with her. She really doesn't like organized sports and the teacher said that they make sure not to push her with it and often times she'll sit out and refuse to join in with the other kids. She does take swimming lessons at home (loves it!) but I think it's more of the group activities that she doesn't like yet. The teacher didn't have any real suggestion beyond just waiting until she gets older.
In terms of social aspect I feel like at least with her friends we've seen some big improvements lately (maybe a new stage of her development?). We've had a number of playdates/parties since my first post, so we had the chance to see her around her friends more often and it looks like she's adjusted well and doesn't appear to be nearly as sensitive to her friends not playing with her 100% of the time. I'm hoping it was just a phase then.
We also discussed the boredom issue and the teacher said she'd keep an eye on it. I still don't understand exactly what DD means by boredom in school. However, one issue that has come up is that DD told me yesterday that she doesn't like asking questions in the local language- only in English. DH and I find that during the breaks/nights/weekends we get almost non-stop questions about everything possible. I figured that was just who she was but then she told me that she saves all her questions for when DH and I are home because she wants to talk about them in English. So we might talk to her more about asking her teacher questions too.
That being said the teacher said that at times she has problems understanding DD because she gets excited, talks very quickly and still has some pronunciation issues. I know I understand her by far the best, so maybe that's why I get the most questions from her?
