What Can I Do To Help My Son Prepare For 1st Grade If He Had A Bad Kindergarten Experience And Teacher?Should
The school we attended has a combined Kindergarten and 1st grade. It was not a good experience for my son. I went along with it as did other parents because the principal assured us it would work out well. So much for trusting a principal. I just found out just recently the teacher was not even certified to teach Kindergarten . I am livid! We work with him at home with reading and other basic skills, but I have been told that Kindergarten is an important part of the education experience and I feel badly that my son was cheated out of that. Is there anything I can do to help given him a better outlook toward school and learning?
start with going to school with him for the first day as the day. sit in a chair near him, asthe day goes on slowly move your chair closer and closer to the door. once you see he is comfortable kiss him and ask his permission to leave they like to feel like they are in control of the situation. wait until he says okay then slip out he shoul be fine. talk to his teacher let her know what you are doing.
Your son is fortuante to have such an engaged parent! Use the summer months to enrich him in any way you can. Do your own field trips, learning takes place at home just as much as in school. Talk to him when you are shopping for groceries and engage him in the process of deciding what to buy, how much things cost, what products are made of etc…Try a new item each time that you both pick out together and talk about what each of you think of it. This exercise will help you both learn to communicate and problem solve together and hopefully lead to a life long partnership in his learning needs. Also purchase some activity books that emphasize grade level learning and make time to do this with your son every day. You can surely get him up to speed. Make sure that you read every day, even if it is the news paper in front of him so he sees you reading for knowledge and read with him every single day. Remember, you cannot change what has already happened, but you can learn from it. You attitude towards learning and school will shape your son, so try to be positive and take an active and interactive role in his schooling going forward.
change school…kindergarten is important cos a child learn fast and memorise things easily at that age…it is important to get a really good kindergarten for him…..
It is but it isn’t the end of the world. He will be fine. Your overreacting will only stress him out and make him more anxious and less secure in himself. Little ears hear through doors. You need to let it go and he will be fine.
Don’t stress out about it. I’m sure you’re making much more out of it than your son is. He doesn’t know what he missed or didn’t miss. Kindergarten is becoming more and more what 1st grade used to be. A lot of schools are having all day Kindergarten to prepare the kids better for 1st grade. Just tell your son that each grade is a fresh start and a new chance to learn things. As long as you work with him at home and he has social contacts with other kids he should be fine. Two of my sons were also in combined classes and it seemed that the younger kids always got the short end of the stick. I would recommend that all parents decline if the school wants to place their child in one of these classes. They’re just cutting corners and are too cheap to hire another teacher, so they place uncertified teachers in over-crowded classrooms and give them an aide and hope for the best. I’m glad my kids are done with public school!
That was messed up. The Principal should be fired. Cutting costs is one thing, but don’t combine grades. Kindergarten may have traumatized your son. You just need to make sure you are there to support him. Drop him off from school and pick him up. Talk with the teacher and explain what happened, and he/she should treat your son with compassion.
In a lot of states Kindergarten is optional. Please don’t feel like all is lost with this horrible experience. The sooner you get over it the easier it will be for your young child. Let him know that next year will be so different and wonderful. Go over alphabet, numbers 1-10 and read a lot to your child. Everything is going to be fine… Keep the faith and don’t stress especially in front of your child.