Hi! I am new to this community so I’m not sure the mix of people who are here! Would love feedback from teachers and parents of kiddos K-2. I’m getting ready to help as a teacher for a summer camp at a preschool, but the kiddos are just all alumni (K-2). I’m a preschool teacher! I’m comfortable working with K-2 children, but I’m expected to help with curriculum, and I’m a bit lost. The theme is children’s book illustrations, focusing on fine arts, and I would love some ideas for art activities for that age range. Other guiding questions- What can I expect behaviorally with K-2 kids in an art ..read more

My son’s kindergarten teacher won’t let them use the bathroom unless it’s “bathroom break time”. Anyone elsss kids teachers have this rule? He got clipped down on the behavior chart because he went during math (it was an emergency he said) submitted by /u/RentHuman7642 [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

Hi all, I’m wondering what your schools offer in this sort of situation. My 5yo’s kindergarten class is going outdoor education that involves a 15-20min walk through a wooded area to a pond. There are 48 students, and there will be 2 teachers+one assistant. The district ratios are meant to be 8:1 for field study, this has been waved for these outings. The vibe from the teacher seems to be this is how it’s always done, it’s always fine. Am I being weird not feeling like that’s enough? I’d be fine with even just four adults. I mean they have more supervision IN the classroom than that. Am I jus ..read more

What do you do for water bottles at school for your kindergartners? Does your kid bring a reusable water bottle, or a disposable bottle of bottled water? Or just raw-dog the water fountain like a Gen Xer in 1993? We are nearing the end of the school year. By my count, we have been through at least 5 reusable water bottles this year. All have been either lost or broken. None have ever turned up in the school's lost and found. Prices range from $5-$15. (Probably more broken ones near the cheaper end of that scale.) For a while, we were sending disposables because we happened to have a pack of b ..read more

For context, I love my girls more than anything. But my 5 year old is extremely trying. I end up not even wanting to be around her. Her attitude sends me, she’s clingy, demanding, whiney. I find myself getting more short with her and I hate myself for it. I don’t know where my patience went. I’ve made posts in the past regarding how we butt heads. She goes to school, I do get breaks. We have good days but lately there’s been more bad days and I’m feeling very emotionally drained from being bullied by my 5 year old. I don’t help the matter because I will raise my voice. She’s not ignored, she ..read more

We're trying to figure out what is going on with our kindergartener and how best to help him. Everything has a wait-list. A behaviorist we saw recommended a neurological psych eval. That's a 9-12 month wait and we have it in the next month. We were also recommended Occupational therapy and got in after a 6 month wait. We recently got on a 3 month wait-list for talk or play therapy. The school psychologist did an evaluation at the beginning of the year and we were told basically he's fine and has some extra energy. All this to say, as parents we knew something was different from the get go- we ..read more

Disclaimer: Advertising, but certainly useful for many My child was always losing things at school, or things like pens would just disappear throughout the day. I didn‘t want to keep buying new things, so I started designing name stickers. They are easy to stick on all sorts of things and are even dishwashers safe. My son loves them because there is a cute design on each sticker and it makes him take better care of his things. Since we started using the stickers, everything is always where it should be at the end of the day. As the stickers helped my problem and I enjoyed designing them, I wa ..read more

My kids go to a school that is known for academics/high test scores. A family member claims the focus on academics means they do not focus on social emotional skills. I find this rich because my kindergartener is more socially attuned than their kindergartener. Is this just an insecure parent projecting or are there schools that don’t teach social emotional learning these days and what does that even mean? submitted by /u/firstimehomeownerz [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

My daughter just turned 5 and is ready to start kindergarten in the fall! I've never done this before but I have hesitations about the school. Am I overthinking it or is this odd? We live in a small town, we have one public school that is divided into 3 buildings. Pre-k - 3rd, 4th - 7th then 8th - 12th. I went to register her for kindergarten online. The school website said I had to register her for orientation day and had to do it beforehand. They didn't have a link or instructions so I called the school and was told to come in to the office. So me and my husband did. First impressions. Her ..read more

Does anyone have advice for helping my daughter navigate the “girls vs. boys” playtime identities that have been popping up more and more? She comes home crying sometimes because the girls in her class give her a hard time for liking “boy things” and tell her that she can’t play with them unless she likes “girl things,” which she just… doesn’t (in our house we’re actually big proponents of all things being for everybody, but I know this divide is pretty developmentally normal/socially typical.) She also says that while she plays and talks to the boys in her class pretty frequently, they all s ..read more