Friday, August 22, 2008
School Time
Coby is in first grade now and already we're having a hard time. I'll explain...First of all most you mothers out there know how children are graded everyday at school for their behavior by green, yellow, or red. Well when Coby started kindergarden on the first day I went to pick him up and when he got into the car the first words out of his mouth were, "Mom, I got a yellow dot and that's ok!" At first, and of course, I chuckled, but I had to explain to him that being on yellow wasnt' so ok. It was better than being on red though. Even the first couple of months I think he only came home with 1 or 2 green dots. Although towards the end of the year he got better and was coming home with green dots everyday. I was proud! We had sorta a rough year but it got better. This year his teacher is grading behavior with either a happy face or sad face. There is no in between. So of course I was worried but on the first week of school he actually came home with happy faces. Then the second week out of nowhere he's come home with a sad face everyday. I've already had to take his bike away and cartoons. He's also started giving us a bad time at home by not wanting to get up in the mornings and homework is really bad. This past week he's had to do math homework and some vocabulary words that he learned last year. He doesn't want to write his answers down, he doesn't want to think on his own for the answer, and even when he's given the answer he forgets how to do the next problem. He's also reading things and writing things backwards. I don't know if there's something wrong with him or if it's just him being lazy. My husband is convinced that there is something wrong. But my husband always thinks the worst first and I'm the opposite. I think that he's just being lazy and I'm losing patience and we got such a long way to go. I love my little Coby to pieces and I know he's a smart boy and he's very creative and energetic I just didn't think a little 6 year old would be acting like this. Shouldn't he be excited to go to school and play with friends and color. It shouldn't be this hard. Anyway, maybe it'll get better. Only time will tell....
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Mommy and Lexie
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Thanksgiving day
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1 comment:
I think its normal for him to have some of those problems with his writing. There were kids in my kids class that were plenty smart and did that for a little while. Just give him a little time to get back into the swing of things. Its only 1st grade and writing is still a little new. My kids have always disliked having to go to school. Hope this helps.
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