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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 553928" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>Unfortunately, in this rather narrow educational system, J is not at all perceived as doing well for his age. He is perceived as being "behind". The teacher told me he is disturbing the other children sometimes by speaking to them during the class... when I asked him why, he said he cannot remember the letters and so has to ask the others. Poor little chap. His old teacher used to laugh at him for using his fingers as if it was something bizarre... It's fine for him to use them, I guess I just wanted him to understand that there was another way of doing it - what he'll do, for example, is see the number 3 and then count three on his fingers before saying what it is, and I say to him he can just look at the number and know what it is. But there you are, he learns differently. He'd collected loads of conkers in a bag so this morning I said we'd count them - took them all out and we put them in groups of 10, which we then counted and I explained (lightly, he won't remember it anyway at this stage <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />) about just adding 0 to the number you have. This is the way he learns best, I imagine. With concrete, real life examples - ie not the way they learn in conventional school. </p><p></p><p>In the next few weeks, I'm going to decide whether to take him out of school and home school him for the time being. He likes school and going to school but he is clearly swimming and lost with what they are doing. I want to ask if he might be able to go to school just in the afternoon (when they do sports and other activities) but I don't suppose they will agree. No harm in asking! This just isn't the right time for him to be learning to read. He is struggling so much, not understanding, not getting it, it's forcing a square peg into a round hole all the time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 553928, member: 11227"] Unfortunately, in this rather narrow educational system, J is not at all perceived as doing well for his age. He is perceived as being "behind". The teacher told me he is disturbing the other children sometimes by speaking to them during the class... when I asked him why, he said he cannot remember the letters and so has to ask the others. Poor little chap. His old teacher used to laugh at him for using his fingers as if it was something bizarre... It's fine for him to use them, I guess I just wanted him to understand that there was another way of doing it - what he'll do, for example, is see the number 3 and then count three on his fingers before saying what it is, and I say to him he can just look at the number and know what it is. But there you are, he learns differently. He'd collected loads of conkers in a bag so this morning I said we'd count them - took them all out and we put them in groups of 10, which we then counted and I explained (lightly, he won't remember it anyway at this stage :)) about just adding 0 to the number you have. This is the way he learns best, I imagine. With concrete, real life examples - ie not the way they learn in conventional school. In the next few weeks, I'm going to decide whether to take him out of school and home school him for the time being. He likes school and going to school but he is clearly swimming and lost with what they are doing. I want to ask if he might be able to go to school just in the afternoon (when they do sports and other activities) but I don't suppose they will agree. No harm in asking! This just isn't the right time for him to be learning to read. He is struggling so much, not understanding, not getting it, it's forcing a square peg into a round hole all the time. [/QUOTE]
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