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our teacher sees this response from Aiden as a sign that
a) he LOVES school and
b) is sufficiently challenged and
c) is not seeking higher level work at all and
d) I am exaggerating his need for "work" work.

sometimes I think I want to cry about it and at other times I think that I should be glad that he likes to play there - even if it means he asks to do all his learning at home. every afternoon after school. AND on a saturday morning. at 5am. gah!

Um the answer is most definitely Ernie...remember his rubber duckie...he is always in the bath with rubber duckie.

Madoosa we get the same response from D's preschool and the same desire for learning at 5 am!
At the moment I am seeing pre-school as the place to learn to cope with other kids, have to follow directions etc but a lot of the " learning" otherwise occurs at home where DS is reading, interested in spelling and writing, numbers etc which is entirely self driven.

I know! That was my first thought, too, but DD does not actually watch Sesame Street. She does have a towel with Elmo on it, so I went that direction. LOL. The Count makes no sense. When we went to Sesame place she fell in love with him.