Things that worry 5 yr olds..

[vernon]

It's pretty galling as a teacher to have a TA 'correct' a child's work in class which leaves the child with work that is incorrect or engages them in social conversations concerning mutual friends and the like and abandon any pretence of work. I've had a few sharp words with some that have crossed my path and have sent some back to base as teaching without their assistance was easier than teaching with their help.

I've worked with some fantastic TAs and HLTAs but they are outnumbered by barely adequate and useless ones. I shouldn't have to be telling them to put their mobile phones away, do their online shopping in their own time and focus on the job that they've been paid to do.

 

[Crackle]

So what were the 'lines on the paper' ??? I think we should be told....

"I must not pick my nose in class and eat it"

 

[asterix]

Surely, correctly parsed, the sentence means the child is being instructed not to eat their own nose?

 

[threebikesmcginty]

5 year-olds are probably most worried about being picked up from school by mistake by someone else's granddad who is quite obviously a child molester.

 

[Arch]

Not a worry as such, but when my parents went to my first parents evening, they were told that my reading wasn't coming on as fast as expected. This was odd, as books featured strongly at home, I was read to a lot. The teacher said she had an incentive as well, when a child read a page of their book they got a jelly baby. (this was 40 years ago!)

Mum immediately knew what was wrong. She said I didn't like jelly babies and suggested trying chocolate buttons.

I haven't stopped reading since!

 

[Archie_tect]

Our primary school teacher handed out Robertson gollywog badges when we learned to tell the time...
20 years ago, Master A_T's reception class teacher told us that he couldn't whistle, skip or tell the time at a parents' evening before Easter! He still can't whistle very well and his skipping lacks finesse...

 

[Headgardener]

Our primary school teacher handed out Robertson gollywog badges when we learned to tell the time...
20 years ago, Master A_T's reception class teacher told us that he couldn't whistle, skip or tell the time at a parents' evening before Easter! He still can't whistle very well and his skipping lacks finesse...

Not all at the same time I hope.