r/ClassOf2037

Do you volunteer at your child's school?

I used to want to do this but now I don't because certain people make it seem like it has to be a mandatory thing or something to do prove you care about your child. Plus I have other personal obligations that I feel comes ahead this. I think its great if a parent can provide time or money or whatever the school needs, but for people to act like it is a MUST is concerning to me. And it turns me off.

I do however help if the teachers need something like they are doing a class event or party. But I didn't know I had to do that school wide.

I call him mister but instead of pronouncing it miss-ter i pronounce it me-ster. That’s been his nickname for years now. Anyone else have weird nicknames for your kids?

I feel there's several discussions about how schools teach reading. But I haven't seen many discussions on math. I'd love to hear what other schools are doing for math, methods to teach it and where our soon to be second graders have finished math for the year.

1. What sort of math did your child master by the end of the year? Especially what did the school teach? (If your kid is a math genius and can do trigonometry that's great, but what was covered at school?)

2. How are they teaching math?

I'll post my answers below

Lactose free, no yogurt/dairy/ice cream but cheese is ok) and food preferences (red dye sensitive)

This is a *very* niche and silly situation so bare with me and even if you can’t relate (I don’t expect you to lol) any outside input would be appreciated because I’ve never been decisive in my life.

We are signing up for summer baseball and my twins (6) have the option of playing with their classmates and being coached by one of our good family friends (who is an ex MLB player) OR playing on a different team and being coached by their own ex MLB player dad. I know, I know. My husband could also assistant coach the other team with their classmates but our little league uses MLB team names so that coach is using the team he used to play for. You’re probably thinking “why tf does that matter?” LOL but apparently it does for these dads who are passionate about their alma maters (?) I also feel like it would be soo 🙄 for us to have not one but two ex MLB players coaching their team, so I’m leaning toward having my husband coach his own. But then at the same time my kids want to be with their school mates.

I know it’s so silly but what do we do yall 🫠

My boy said some things to another student who the principal even admitted that he didn’t know what it actually meant, but they had to take precaution to it. Not going to say what was actually said, but my boy said to a student something violet whom his teacher told his principal that led to an in school suspension. The principal gave me the option to either pick my boy up or to leave him at the school to do school work and was not allowed to do the field trip that day. His principal called me and said that she questioned him and she could tell that he didn’t actually mean what he said, but due to what he said, she had to take action about it. It’s the first that that has ever happened. I don’t know where he’s gotten that behavior and where learned to talk like that, but I was genuinely embarrassed and shocked about what had come out of my 7 year old son’s mouth. Anyone else ever experienced this?

I work at 11am and don’t get out until 5pm but I’ll be one of the last to get out of work because the workers who go in at 7 and 8 will get out first, so I’m not guaranteed to get out right at 5pm. He has a karate demonstration tonight which will be at the park for town and country days. A bunch of people are going to be down there for different events, and my son is able to do a kata he’s learned all by himself to show to everyone at the park and I definitely don’t want to miss that. I called in because like I said, I’m not guaranteed to get out right at 5pm and I don’t want to miss it. He also has a baseball game tonight shortly after, and I don’t want to miss that either. Is it a stupid reason to call in to work because I don’t want to miss my son doing those things? I have lots of PTO saved up so I’ll be able to use that and get paid for today.

When I got home today my 6.5 year old told me that someone drew dots on the classroom floor today. The teacher asked the whole class who did it, and, when nobody admitted to it the entire class lost their afternoon recess. I am obviously against this for many reasons, and I need help with what to say in my message to the teacher.

This teacher is filling in for her regular teacher who is out for the rest of the year on medical leave. She's been with the kids for about 1.5 months. I don't really know much about her and haven't met her in person since conferences were supposed to be right as my daughter's teacher went out on leave.

My son is soft spoken and doesn't get along with other boys. Some of the boys have asked him to play with him in the beginning of the year, but my son would say no. I asked him why, and his reply was that they can be mean. Now, the boys won't play with him. I volunteer often at the school, sometimes during recess time, and I've heard some boys "gossip" if you will and point at my son for liking girl toys.

My son isn't your typical "boy," he likes a lot of toys that are geared towards girls and the boys in his class are already playing Minecraft, while we haven't introduced him games like that.

The girls also tend to play with other girls, I've noticed. Just wanted to see if there are other moms out there in a similar situation and how did your son eventually make school friends?

edit: a little background, he has a minor speech impediment. I acknowledge that this might have some factor as well :(

My oldest is about to turn 7 and we’re thinking through how to get her access to music/audio content that she can use independently. We want it to be in our second language as much as possible, which means if we go the Yoto route, it’ll be almost exclusively MYO cards.

For this age group, has anyone had experience with iPod-esque devices? Would it be appropriate for a 7 year old?

I feel like everyone I know has a Yoto and loves it, but they’re also not trying to find content in a Baltic language. And it seems expensive for basically a MP3 player when she’s reading pretty independently and could probably navigate a screen (maybe?)

Thanks in advance!

We're out May 21! Last full week of school is this week! 8.5 days left. We're doing 2 weeks of gifted camp, 1 week of science camp, swim team and traveling to Mexico, Legoland and Colorado (to see family). School starts August 3rd 🙃 Quietly going to enjoy my last week of peace before the summer chaos begins.