Re: Does this learning issue have a name? Solutions?
- From: "Cathy Kearns" <cathy_kearns@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 14:32:22 GMT
<lisabell_98@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I am perfectly willing to hand over
the task of teaching her to her teachers, unfortunately it seems to me
like the school system relies more and more heavily on parental
involvement, whether to do supplementary exercises, assist with
homework etc. In other words I don't know if it ultimately going to be
possible to keep our noses out of her learning, and this worries me.
My daughters were like your second one. They liked learning stuff as long
as they discovered it themselves. They weren't much on the help from mom or
dad. My oldest, when she got into 2nd grade (which in our district is the
first year of nightly homework) the teacher sat all the parents down at the
beginning of the year and explained responsibilities. Homework was the
child's responsibility. We were not to bring homework they forgot into the
office, we were not to hover over them until they got it done. If they had
questions we could answer, but they had to come to us first. If they didn't
turn in their homework they would sit at the bench and do it durning recess.
Whoa! Talk about easy. And sure enough, just as she promised, my daughter
did forget one homework. She did do it at the picnic table at recess, and
life went on, and she didn't forget again.
Unfortunately that teacher was gone by the time my second one hit second
grade, and I would find completed homework around the house days after it
was supposed to be turned in, and the teacher never said anything. The
next year I requested she get a stricter teacher, as the huggy loving
teacher was not cutting it, this daughter would just walk all over her.
Sure enough, the homework got turned in, and we never had a problem again.
Yes, they do come to us if they need help, but when they are asking they
listen. The other absolutely amazing thing is the projects they can do
themselves without us. In first grade one daughter did a video report on
fairy penguins. This year she did her entire science fair project herself.
Sure, some parents did a better job, but she did better at the interview
than those kids, as many didn't understand everything that went into their
projects.
For a start I know they have done a little work on letter familiarity
in kindergarten, but not a full job of learning them all. Based on
DD1's 1st grade experience the kids are going to be expected to be
familiar with all the letters and their sounds within the 1st two weeks
of 1st grade, however, and most of the kids will already know the
letters coming in. The pressure I feel under at the moment is not to
let her fall behind at the early, and to my mind fairly crucial stage.
Am I over thinking it?
My second one was not interested in learning to read in kindergarten, though
many of her peers were sent to a private reading class after school. She
showed up to first grade reading nothing. By the time they divided up the
class by level in October she was in the top group. It sounds like your
daughters are also self motivated, they just don't like to be pushed. Step
back and let them grow. It's amazing.
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