I had a teacher conference with Wolf's preschool/K/daycare teacher. He goes there twice a week for three hours a day to have time learning how to work with groups of kids close to his age to supplement being in 1st with a small Independent Study group (no other 1st graders). She said that the things they are working on with him are listening and following direction (no surprise there) and joining in with groups of children to play rather than doing parallel play or asking for an adult to help him join in. He also has trouble dealing with problems in group without the aid of an adult.
Now this FLOORED me... With his Independent Study group (kids aged 6-11, he is just barely 5) he has no problems at all. Same with his friends, aged 6 and 7, or his little brother (other than the MOM He's BREATHING near me!!! issues that siblings have). Even at the playground he just happily joins in.
So I'm thinking that it is just an issue he has dealing with large groups of kids near his age. Any thoughts?
