Some schools I guess are at different levels ( the whole my school website thing etc ) I'm sure that with a tutor and even just a few more weeks to settle in and get up to speed and he will be fine
I get what you mean about the oldest, you can always just the younger children , based on an older sibling but often the oldest just goes with the flow ( I am the oldest too )
in the mean time to make me feel better I'd probably email his old school to tell them how disappointed you are.....
Yep, I had planned to do that. But more in a update of his progress sort of way. Will see how it goes. I will write it & then maybe not send it. Its a very small school that we came from which makes it even worse IMO.
I have an 8yo in year two. I just read him those questions out and he was able to understand them and answer them. But he is advanced for his ago, he is at a year 5 reading level and year 3-4 for maths... He does know his odds and evens and to find/look for patterns in numbers.
Maybe ask the school for some assistance if he is struggling, with my other son in year one, he has a teachers aid spend an hour with him (and some others) to help him with his reading and maths, within a few weeks he is finally getting up to where he should be.
What other type of homework does he get maybe we can compare?
At the moment he only gets a Reader (level 20) & a list of spelling words. The Math that came home was to partly to finish off & partly to show us how behind he is. When his teacher told me that I requested that we start a communication diary as what Evan tells me is often very different to what has been said. For instance he also had his social studies book come home which needed some work finished off. He was so upset & concerned of getting into trouble because this morning he hadn't completed all the colouring in he had to do. He was telling me it had to be done, all the kids had to do it etc. So when I mentioned to his teacher it wasn't finished because we spent an hour and half doing the math etc. I said that I told him it was more important to do the the other work & its just colouring in. She laughed it off & said yep, Its just colouring in so he can finish it at home IF he likes. Not MUST.
She did say he is with a group of kids she is spending more time with to bring up to speed. So thats good to know that she is giving him the extra help.
DH printed out some NAPLAN stuff & sat with him again this evening helping to understand the important parts of the question. He did really well with that.
I am hoping that this is stuff he knows but its just be taught different or wrong for him to understand & that he will catch up quickly.
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( I am the oldest too )
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