Next question - how much homework does your first grader have? We have two books at their reading level a night plus math (35 questions in a week) and it seems like a lot. And this teacher said she didn’t believe in homework…
We got homework for DD1 (1st) for the first time last night. She has a folder for the week and it includes 1 math worksheet (2 sides), math fact flash cards to practice and a reading log. We're supposed to return the folder Friday, so that's not a lot and easily doable. They say to aim for at least 15 mins per night and note what books we read and how long. We easily read for 15-30 mins every night with both kids and I'm a little annoyed that they want me to write down all the titles. But I'll do it.
My questions - has anyone ordered from primary and felt the quality sucked? I recently bought four shirts to tie dye, and they felt really cheap and thin. After pre-washing the seam is ripping out in three separate places on one shirt. Since it was just a craft project I’m not returning, but I’m pretty disappointed since everyone raves about what great basics they are.
Next question - how much homework does your first grader have? We have two books at their reading level a night plus math (35 questions in a week) and it seems like a lot. And this teacher said she didn’t believe in homework…
DD didn't have any homework in 1st grade but in Kindergarten she actually had the most homework she's had in all of elementary school. I honestly regret not pushing back on that. Things like reviewing sight words were no big deal but all the writing practice and math were just painful. It would take forever and result in tears. I just didn't know any better so I went with it but homework for young kids is dumb. If it's not working I would check in with your teacher.
In 2nd grade and 3rd grade they had a bit of math homework each night but it never took more than about 5 minutes. No homework in 4th or 5th unless something didn't get finished in class.
Next question - how much homework does your first grader have? We have two books at their reading level a night plus math (35 questions in a week) and it seems like a lot. And this teacher said she didn’t believe in homework…
We got homework for DD1 (1st) for the first time last night. She has a folder for the week and it includes 1 math worksheet (2 sides), math fact flash cards to practice and a reading log. We're supposed to return the folder Friday, so that's not a lot and easily doable. They say to aim for at least 15 mins per night and note what books we read and how long. We easily read for 15-30 mins every night with both kids and I'm a little annoyed that they want me to write down all the titles. But I'll do it.
Nope. Push back on the reading logs, too. So many studies show how detrimental these are. I forgot we actually had one of these in 3rd grade. It made reading a chore for DD. She would do the bare minimum. She was like and my 20 minutes are up! Next. Once those were no longer required reading became fun again.
We got homework for DD1 (1st) for the first time last night. She has a folder for the week and it includes 1 math worksheet (2 sides), math fact flash cards to practice and a reading log. We're supposed to return the folder Friday, so that's not a lot and easily doable. They say to aim for at least 15 mins per night and note what books we read and how long. We easily read for 15-30 mins every night with both kids and I'm a little annoyed that they want me to write down all the titles. But I'll do it.
Nope. Push back on the reading logs, too. So many studies show how detrimental these are. I forgot we actually had one of these in 3rd grade. It made reading a chore for DD. She would do the bare minimum. She was like and my 20 minutes are up! Next. Once those were no longer required reading became fun again.
Interesting! It is funny because my plan was to keep doing what we've been doing and just note the titles myself. So really it feels like homework for me more than DD1. I'll ask the teacher if it is really necessary.
My questions - has anyone ordered from primary and felt the quality sucked? I recently bought four shirts to tie dye, and they felt really cheap and thin. After pre-washing the seam is ripping out in three separate places on one shirt. Since it was just a craft project I’m not returning, but I’m pretty disappointed since everyone raves about what great basics they are.
Next question - how much homework does your first grader have? We have two books at their reading level a night plus math (35 questions in a week) and it seems like a lot. And this teacher said she didn’t believe in homework…
1-4 pages of math, read 15 minutes, spelling (write words 1-3 times depending on day), and a fluency reader (read as fast as you can so less than 1 minute). It is way too much!
Is there any solution to the 3 year old bedtime battle when school encourages naps for a kid who quit napping a year ago? Send help.
We embraced it. My kids are low sleepers (unfortunately) so the 3 yo’s bedtime was 10 pm. I like to read so we would go to “bed” at 8 and I would sit there and read until he passed out at 10. Nothing we tried—early bedtime, locking him in, getting up insanely early, bribes—worked. So, we leaned in and accepted it. Both kids were the same (even the younger who was a way better sleeper). Once the naps ended, they started sleeping earlier (and later in the morning), but for a few years it was either late bedtime, midnight explorations, or waking up at 4:30. Of those, late nights were the least painful. They are well-adjusted, well-sleeping elementary schoolers now.
Does anyone else deal with cyclic vomiting syndrome with your kids? Both my girls have it and the episodes are getting more frequent for my 6 year old and she is now in real school and missing school when she has an episode. I would love to get some better strategies to avoid episodes or something to help make this better and less frequent. She has a well visit tomorrow and I want to press the pedi on it cause I feel like its just so far an answer of "well she just has this". Any suggestions?!
I had CVS as a child. Unfortunately nothing would really stop an episode for me other than time and frequently a hospital stay. What would help me the most were things like chewing on ice chips or sucking on a cold, damp rag (both of those were both for comfort and for attempting to minimize dehydration), as well as practicing slow, deep breaths when I felt like I was going to throw up. From what I can remember, around the time I was starting to grow out of it, they came out with an antiemetic that could help (I want to say it was compazine, but I can’t remember for sure). I think I took it once or twice before I officially grew out of it. This was back in the 80s/early 90s, so talk to your pedi to see if they have better medicines to stop it now. I don’t think we ever discovered any triggers (other than some episodes were linked to me getting other illnesses like strep, but plenty of episodes were apparently random).
Sorry you have to deal with this. I wish I had better advice for you. CVS really sucks!
Does anyone else deal with cyclic vomiting syndrome with your kids? Both my girls have it and the episodes are getting more frequent for my 6 year old and she is now in real school and missing school when she has an episode. I would love to get some better strategies to avoid episodes or something to help make this better and less frequent. She has a well visit tomorrow and I want to press the pedi on it cause I feel like its just so far an answer of "well she just has this". Any suggestions?!
I had CVS as a child. Unfortunately nothing would really stop an episode for me other than time and frequently a hospital stay. What would help me the most were things like chewing on ice chips or sucking on a cold, damp rag (both of those were both for comfort and for attempting to minimize dehydration), as well as practicing slow, deep breaths when I felt like I was going to throw up. From what I can remember, around the time I was starting to grow out of it, they came out with an antiemetic that could help (I want to say it was compazine, but I can’t remember for sure). I think I took it once or twice before I officially grew out of it. This was back in the 80s/early 90s, so talk to your pedi to see if they have better medicines to stop it now. I don’t think we ever discovered any triggers (other than some episodes were linked to me getting other illnesses like strep, but plenty of episodes were apparently random).
Sorry you have to deal with this. I wish I had better advice for you. CVS really sucks!
Thank you. I’m sorry you went through it too. I feel like it’s getting worse and I feel so badly for her:( Ice chips is a good idea, she always wants to chug water and obviously that just makes her puke. I just ordered some pedialyte ice pops I didn’t realize existed after some online research. I will ask about any available meds tomorrow - she had tried zofran and it didn’t really help.
I had CVS as a child. Unfortunately nothing would really stop an episode for me other than time and frequently a hospital stay. What would help me the most were things like chewing on ice chips or sucking on a cold, damp rag (both of those were both for comfort and for attempting to minimize dehydration), as well as practicing slow, deep breaths when I felt like I was going to throw up. From what I can remember, around the time I was starting to grow out of it, they came out with an antiemetic that could help (I want to say it was compazine, but I can’t remember for sure). I think I took it once or twice before I officially grew out of it. This was back in the 80s/early 90s, so talk to your pedi to see if they have better medicines to stop it now. I don’t think we ever discovered any triggers (other than some episodes were linked to me getting other illnesses like strep, but plenty of episodes were apparently random).
Sorry you have to deal with this. I wish I had better advice for you. CVS really sucks!
Thank you. I’m sorry you went through it too. I feel like it’s getting worse and I feel so badly for her:( Ice chips is a good idea, she always wants to chug water and obviously that just makes her puke. I just ordered some pedialyte ice pops I didn’t realize existed after some online research. I will ask about any available meds tomorrow - she had tried zofran and it didn’t really help.
Oh yeah, definitely don’t let her chug water! I know you probably know this, but she needs small amounts of water at a time. It’s so hard finding the balance between not getting dehydrated but not drinking too much at once.
The pedialyte ice pops sound like they could be helpful. I don’t know if they are dyed colors, but if they are - don’t give her a red one if she could potentially still throw it up (I learned that one the hard way in the hospital when I was little and really freaked out the nurses with the color! 😆)
ewall - no advice, just wanting to let you know we are right there with you. They encourage nap or quiet time and my kid, who doesn’t nap at home, is the first to fall asleep at school. Bedtime has been such a struggle. We pushed starting his routine till 8 and by the time he’s actually settled in bed it’s closer to 8:30 and even then it’s too early. Thankfully they drop naps next year at his school so just have to ride this out till next year lol.
konapoppy - that’s insane! I would push back. They can’t be forcing a 4 year old to nap or threaten to kick her out if she doesn’t. Our school drops naps all together for second years (4 year olds) but even have many first years (3s) who don’t nap and they have a teacher who reads stories and plays music for them.
Post by starburst604 on Oct 6, 2021 4:19:45 GMT -5
ewall that was when we started using zarbees melatonin gummies for DD, because bedtime was brutal. Letting her stay up later just really wasn’t an option because she still needed to get up early on weekday mornings. It was a vicious cycle because she would be so tired and crabby that she would nap hard at daycare, rinse and repeat that evening and next morning.
Thank you. I’m sorry you went through it too. I feel like it’s getting worse and I feel so badly for her:( Ice chips is a good idea, she always wants to chug water and obviously that just makes her puke. I just ordered some pedialyte ice pops I didn’t realize existed after some online research. I will ask about any available meds tomorrow - she had tried zofran and it didn’t really help.
Oh yeah, definitely don’t let her chug water! I know you probably know this, but she needs small amounts of water at a time. It’s so hard finding the balance between not getting dehydrated but not drinking too much at once.
The pedialyte ice pops sound like they could be helpful. I don’t know if they are dyed colors, but if they are - don’t give her a red one if she could potentially still throw it up (I learned that one the hard way in the hospital when I was little and really freaked out the nurses with the color! 😆)
I don’t know but I’m having the same difficulty with shoes. Size 13 too small, size 1 too big. She has one pair of shoes right now that she seems fitting comfortably other than her crocs.
What the heck am I supposed to do when my kid’s 7 jeans are way too small but the 8s I bought are gigantic. Falling down. Unwearable.
I run into this every year with DS so can totally commiserate. I spend way too much time buying and returning things. Are you looking for boy or girl jeans?
Does anyone else deal with cyclic vomiting syndrome with your kids? Both my girls have it and the episodes are getting more frequent for my 6 year old and she is now in real school and missing school when she has an episode. I would love to get some better strategies to avoid episodes or something to help make this better and less frequent. She has a well visit tomorrow and I want to press the pedi on it cause I feel like its just so far an answer of "well she just has this". Any suggestions?!
::waves:: has your pediatrician considered abdominal migraine instead of CVS? They suspect my daughter has abdominal migraine. We had to find her triggers. If it interfered with her life, there was a preventative she could try.
Is there any solution to the 3 year old bedtime battle when school encourages naps for a kid who quit napping a year ago? Send help.
We embraced it. My kids are low sleepers (unfortunately) so the 3 yo’s bedtime was 10 pm. I like to read so we would go to “bed” at 8 and I would sit there and read until he passed out at 10. Nothing we tried—early bedtime, locking him in, getting up insanely early, bribes—worked. So, we leaned in and accepted it. Both kids were the same (even the younger who was a way better sleeper). Once the naps ended, they started sleeping earlier (and later in the morning), but for a few years it was either late bedtime, midnight explorations, or waking up at 4:30. Of those, late nights were the least painful. They are well-adjusted, well-sleeping elementary schoolers now.
Yes, this is what we did. She stayed up with us (watching an iPad) until 9pm or so. Then we put her to bed and she played in her room for a bit. She would eventually fall asleep around 10pm and was up at 8am.
She’s now in K, no nap and goes to bed around 8:30pm. We gained a little bit earlier bedtime. Mostly, we try to follow her lead with sleep and roll with it.
What the heck am I supposed to do when my kid’s 7 jeans are way too small but the 8s I bought are gigantic. Falling down. Unwearable.
I run into this every year with DS so can totally commiserate. I spend way too much time buying and returning things. Are you looking for boy or girl jeans?
Boy jeans - but sometimes we have gotten girl jeans in between because they fit better? So like boy 5, girl six, boy six
I’m just not sure if he wants me to do that now that he goes to school. His last girl jeans had hearts on the pockets but it was covid and no one ever saw him
I can’t even return I don’t think… we got stuff in august knowing he would outgrow before I could get back to a city. And now I’m realizing thy are a mile too long and too big around the waist to even stay up. But his 7s are so tight he can’t snap them without help.
We got an email on Friday from the teachers that one twin wasn’t napping and wanting to explore ideas.
Monday after school we got a written official incident report that if she doesn’t sleep we will need to pick her up at nap time - basically kicking her out.
Also wanted to say that it is completely unreasonable for a daycare to *require* preschool age kids to fall asleep during nap time! DD started dropping her nap just before age 2, and I cannot imagine how we would have found childcare for the last 2 years if she hadn't been allowed to play quietly while other kids slept.
We got an email on Friday from the teachers that one twin wasn’t napping and wanting to explore ideas.
Monday after school we got a written official incident report that if she doesn’t sleep we will need to pick her up at nap time - basically kicking her out.
Also wanted to say that it is completely unreasonable for a daycare to *require* preschool age kids to fall asleep during nap time! DD started dropping her nap just before age 2, and I cannot imagine how we would have found childcare for the last 2 years if she hadn't been allowed to play quietly while other kids slept.
To be fair, she needs to sleep or be very quiet. But they really want her to sleep, so don’t want us to explore anything beyond a weighted blanket at this point. Then they said we can try a fidget toy.
I run into this every year with DS so can totally commiserate. I spend way too much time buying and returning things. Are you looking for boy or girl jeans?
Boy jeans - but sometimes we have gotten girl jeans in between because they fit better? So like boy 5, girl six, boy six
I’m just not sure if he wants me to do that now that he goes to school. His last girl jeans had hearts on the pockets but it was covid and no one ever saw him
I can’t even return I don’t think… we got stuff in august knowing he would outgrow before I could get back to a city. And now I’m realizing thy are a mile too long and too big around the waist to even stay up. But his 7s are so tight he can’t snap them without help.
If you do decide to get new ones, Old Navy has some stretch jeans with the adjustable tabs that fit DS well. They are a slimmer fit. Bonus too that you can return for free in the mail if they don't fit.
I run into this every year with DS so can totally commiserate. I spend way too much time buying and returning things. Are you looking for boy or girl jeans?
Boy jeans - but sometimes we have gotten girl jeans in between because they fit better? So like boy 5, girl six, boy six
I’m just not sure if he wants me to do that now that he goes to school. His last girl jeans had hearts on the pockets but it was covid and no one ever saw him
I can’t even return I don’t think… we got stuff in august knowing he would outgrow before I could get back to a city. And now I’m realizing thy are a mile too long and too big around the waist to even stay up. But his 7s are so tight he can’t snap them without help.
Walmart and old navy have pants and jeans with the adjustable waists. You could also look for slim cut, I’ve found some online at target that work for my tall skinny kid. His issue is usually the waist is huge but he needs the length. Luckily we live where it is hot so he can wear shorts most of the year.
To be fair, she needs to sleep or be very quiet. But they really want her to sleep, so don’t want us to explore anything beyond a weighted blanket at this point. Then they said we can try a fidget toy.
Ugh. I'm sorry they're being so restrictive. No books allowed? Or coloring? I feel like those are the most common solutions. A fancier option might involve headphones so she can listen to a story without other kids hearing it. I'm giving your daycare the side-eye in their lack of creativity here.
What the heck am I supposed to do when my kid’s 7 jeans are way too small but the 8s I bought are gigantic. Falling down. Unwearable.
We buy dd slim fit from children’s place, old navy, target and sometimes Kohl’s. Unfortunately they don’t sell every style in slim, so I typically buy online and use the filters to find our options. H&M also runs very long/slim so we are able to get regular sizes there.
Yuuup. Bedtime started getting really bad when AJ was around 3.5 and got progressively worse until I thought to ask his pedi about melatonin during his 5 year well check. We decided to trial it with her very enthusiastic approval and 1mg at bedtime has made all the difference. 3 years later, he still gets it more nights than not...he can fall asleep without it but has an easier time when he takes it and with him being in school the more sleep he gets the better.
People think I'm joking when I say we have Zarbees melatonin chewables to thank for Z's existence but I'm not...AJ's bedtimes were so bad that I told my husband there was no way in hell we were having another kid. Melatonin was magic for him, and now our lives are ruled by a 2 year old tornado of a baby sister;)
Yuuup. Bedtime started getting really bad when AJ was around 3.5 and got progressively worse until I thought to ask his pedi about melatonin during his 5 year well check. We decided to trial it with her very enthusiastic approval and 1mg at bedtime has made all the difference. 3 years later, he still gets it more nights than not...he can fall asleep without it but has an easier time when he takes it and with him being in school the more sleep he gets the better.
People think I'm joking when I say we have Zarbees melatonin chewables to thank for Z's existence but I'm not...AJ's bedtimes were so bad that I told my husband there was no way in hell we were having another kid. Melatonin was magic for him, and now our lives are ruled by a 2 year old tornado of a baby sister;)
Zarbees melatonin 4 lyfe! It worked so well for DD that we all take melatonin now. I love that it helps me get drowsy but no grogginess the next day. The dreams are sometimes totally wild though!