Foundation (Prep/Kinder) 2014 Chatter #2

[Lenny]

She's still super young to be forming solid friendships, I think.
In DSs class the girls are friends because half of them were in kinder together last year and some even the year before.

DS doesn't have any favourite friends. Seems fine to spend his lunchtimes with whoever happens to be doing what he wants to do. And he's 6 already.

Thankfully he still wants to go everyday! He gets annoyed when he realises that ds2 and I might have done something he wanted to do during the day, but he still loves school. I'm lucky.

Parent teacher interviews week after next. That should be funny. I can't imagine what they could possibly say.
And then school finishes for us for 5 weeks while we go on holiday! It'll be interesting to see if DS is ok about going back to school after that. He should be. DH will be returning to work and DS2 will be returning to kinder so I'm sure everyone will just slot back in.

[~Kim~]

Mine is tired! One more week to go, and we have parent teacher interviews tomorrow night. Then it's four weeks off for us and boy do we need it here!

In my immediate group of friends we have 25 kids between 6 of us so between that and preschool, DS didn't really have to worry about making friends, however I have discovered he has made two great little mates separate to all that. My big girl however was just like your Miss I, OP and she was everybody's friend for ages with no particular alliance. Because she's so 'even', now 3 years later, everybody wants to be her best friend, but she just doesn't see the value in a ranking system lol.

[OceanPrincess]

Lenny you are absolutely right, she is still little. I just worry for her. I guess that's standard hey??

Only two weeks til holidays. My ILs have offered to take the boys down to the beach house for the days that I'm working in the first week of hols - they would normally be looking after them anyway so they said they could take then down and then we all go down on the weekend. I'm putting DD into a school holiday program at church for those days so she can stay home and travel down with us.

I'm looking forward to a bit of one on one time with just her.

Kim do you really get four weeks off??

[~Kim~]

Yep, four weeks, but we only get one week in the autumn and spring breaks. It's so hot for so long, that many people like to travel.

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

Sorry I've been MIA everyone, got a bit of catching up to do.

We had our first day off with nits yesterday DD1 was shattered, I found 1 single solitary nit and about 4 eggs so kept both the girls home from school & kinder and treated them.. She is back at school today and extremely happy.

I am really looking forward to her very first school report and hoping the school photo's come in soon too.

Her attitude at the moment is a bit off and she seems tired so I'm hoping it's just an end of term thing, she's really pushing the boundaries at home (but is a perfect angel at school).

How is everyone else going, being tired seems to be a general theme.

[~Kim~]

Oh no. Nits suck. ATM I am the nit queen....I just wish that other parents had to fork out the money I have had to for treatments. I've been through 3 bottles already this year! Then they might actually treat their infested kids....sorry rant over. It's a real problem within the community kids

First parent teacher interview for DS yesterday. Actually went really well. I was surprised (yes I know, have a bit of faith). His teacher is just so lovely. I had hoped he would have gotten dd1s transition teacher, but this one is a much better fit for him.

Today the poor kid was playing after school though and walked into a pole. The egg is still horrendous, hours later. Hope he doesn't get a black eye....

[Astrid]

Interviews tonight. Got their reports yesterday. DD1 has done very well and DD2 is pretty standard, but I do suspect the first report is, looking back on DD1's is had her as pretty standard as well.

Enjoying being on school council and one of the sub committees. Very interesting being involved at that level, as opposed to just the standard helping out and fundraising. Most parents are pretty good, except for the one who I just want to throttle (judgemental, involved in everything and snappy at other parents, she is so bad many parents refuse to be on P&F due to her), I suppose that is fairly typical.

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

How did interviews go Astrid?

[Jewel]

Hi everyone.

Just wondering how you guys go about give out bday invites?
If I drop him at school in the mornings then I can't hang around until other kids get there cause I have to get to work. I can do pickup in the afternoon.

Just confused at how to hand the invites out.

Btw, sorry I have been very MIA. Just super super busy.

[Astrid]

How did interviews go Astrid?

Very well. DD1's was fantastic, her teacher would be happy to have more students like her.
DD2's was great as well. She is finally grasping reading, was getting concerned for awhile, so a relief to know she is "getting it". Her teacher is the same one that DD1 had for her first 2 years, so I am pretty trusting of her and know she will do what she needs to do and tell us when we need to know something.

Hi everyone.

Just wondering how you guys go about give out bday invites?
If I drop him at school in the mornings then I can't hang around until other kids get there cause I have to get to work. I can do pickup in the afternoon.

Just confused at how to hand the invites out.

Btw, sorry I have been very MIA. Just super super busy.

Hi Jewel. I give them to the teacher and hands them out. From what I can gather they don't make a big thing of it, just hand them over with other notes going home.

[MummyNaomi]

Hi everyone.

Just wondering how you guys go about give out bday invites?
If I drop him at school in the mornings then I can't hang around until other kids get there cause I have to get to work. I can do pickup in the afternoon.

Just confused at how to hand the invites out.

Btw, sorry I have been very MIA. Just super super busy.

Yes, give them to the teacher. Ours prefers this as some children get quite upset if they dont get an invite so the teacher will give them out at the end of the day with anything else that needs to come home. While yes, kids need to understand and cope with the rejection of not getting invites, as preppies kids dont necessarily understand not to make a big fuss of it so others dont feel left out. This seems to work well

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

We don't really do interviews as such at our school but I'm actually really excited to receive Miss A's first report... How sad am I.

Got her school photo's, she loves them and I am happy with the pack.

Not long until holidays!

[Nai]

We have interviews at the start of next term. School reports come home this week and then 2 weeks off. It's so cold at the moment I think we will be hanging inside a lot!

OP, dd1 is in grade 3 and still has fluid friendships, dd2 plays with different people but she's got a preferred group that she rotates through. They were all her kinder buddies though. She doesn't seem to have picked up any new friends though.

[black_rose]

We gave invites to the teacher too, made it much easier.

We have our reports dd's was really good we knew she has a couple of areas to work on mostly her stubbornness when faced with new things. Interviews are tomorrow. We have had 9 days of swimming ending tomorrow it's been exhausting for her so we are looking forward to the holidays. She asked to stop dancing today but will hold off until she has had a rest before asking her again. We are stopping swimming after school though as both girls find it a long night.

[feeb]

Been reading bits slowly but had a feral awful few weeks so DS1 has missed some days of school for personal reasons. DS1 report I was very happy with he was at expected level for this time of year in every section and always try's hard, only issue is behaviour which we know about as he has poor concentration skills and tends to fidget and not sit still and pay attention. Missed parent teacher interviews due to above reasons but his teacher said will catch up early next term to do it then with me.

I took party invites to school other day and gave to teacher who put in respective children's school bags.

[BlackCat]

Report comes out tomorrow. Attitude is phenomenal. We've both been sick too. Can't wait for a break.

Teacher won't give out invites unless we invite all of one gender or the entire class. I skipped the party this year, I'm not in a position to pay for 15 - 30 kids. Too hard basket.

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

Got DD's report yesterday, couldn't be prouder of her efforts & the comments from her teacher.
I didn't realise until after reading it that it's against a national standard which made me even prouder.
2 B's and the rest C's with her spots on the graph just ahead of the yellow line... Super super proud mummy!

[OceanPrincess]

Well, final day of Term 2. How fast has this term flown? Although DD is really feeling the tiredness I think and is really looking forward to a bit of rest over the holidays. As are we all She gets teary really easily (last night's tears were because I closed the door before she'd said goodnight???!!?) and is spending much more time in quiet play than chasing her brothers around. The rest will do her well.

Report was excellent - academically she sounds just like your DD1 ZF, slightly above the "normal" but pretty much exactly where she needs to be at this point in Prep. The comments on her attitude and behaviours were wonderful. She is polite, kind and caring, according to the report Just kidding. We see that, we just get the other side of it - the bossy big sister, 5 going on 15 and learning her place in the world.

Things she had to work on were listening to instructions first time (LOL ) and some academic things - she's writing some numbers backwards, needs to work on counting in tens, counting backwards, start spelling words.

We also had a "three way" conversation, which was a chance for her to show off her portfolio of work and talk about how she is finding school. NOT a parent-teacher conference. 15 mins only. So I booked a proper conference with the teacher, which lasted almost an hour

Anway I'm glad I did - reaffirmed what I'd read in the report, plus the teacher got to tell us all about how lovely DD is. The first to comfort someome who is hurt or upset. Kind, caring with impeccable manners. Really good to hear.

We don't have much planned for the hols. School holiday program at our church Wed, Thu, Fri, then we might go to our beachhouse for a long weekend, that's about it. I really want her to have a break and a relax.