So I had enrolled the Girl in french immersion in Sr K.
We are in Ottawa why not give her the opportunity?
She struggled with this all last year.
"She does not listen, she does not engage" I hear from her teachers.
The Girl does not like rules. Don't get me wrong she is polite and well behaved but she would just rather draw six purple flowers than color in the lines of six flowers, know what I mean? My favorite quote from her first report card was "The Girl is a lovely girl, polite and gentle but she could not care less if she was here or not".
My response, "yeah that sounds about right".
I wondered after that first report if immersion was for her.
Her teacher was so fabulous and her group so friends so nice and the parent student council is made of of immersion Mom's. I am telling you the parents of the french immersion students run that school. We stuck with immersion.
At the end of SK my gut is saying The Girl needs to be in English, I write letters to her teacher stating my concerns I request numerous meetings and still was encouraged to keep her in immersion.
The cool parents the lovely friends the nice teacher's recommendation...I go ahead and enroll her for immersion grade one.
After two days of school last week her teacher already tells me she is not listening she does not understand...cut to me in the principals office...cut to Monday morning The Girl having another "first day" of school in ENGLISH.
Always listen to the "mom gut" mother's intuition will rarely lead you astray.
She struggled with this all last year.
"She does not listen, she does not engage" I hear from her teachers.
The Girl does not like rules. Don't get me wrong she is polite and well behaved but she would just rather draw six purple flowers than color in the lines of six flowers, know what I mean? My favorite quote from her first report card was "The Girl is a lovely girl, polite and gentle but she could not care less if she was here or not".
My response, "yeah that sounds about right".
I wondered after that first report if immersion was for her.
Her teacher was so fabulous and her group so friends so nice and the parent student council is made of of immersion Mom's. I am telling you the parents of the french immersion students run that school. We stuck with immersion.
At the end of SK my gut is saying The Girl needs to be in English, I write letters to her teacher stating my concerns I request numerous meetings and still was encouraged to keep her in immersion.
The cool parents the lovely friends the nice teacher's recommendation...I go ahead and enroll her for immersion grade one.
After two days of school last week her teacher already tells me she is not listening she does not understand...cut to me in the principals office...cut to Monday morning The Girl having another "first day" of school in ENGLISH.
Always listen to the "mom gut" mother's intuition will rarely lead you astray.
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You just have to do what is best for your kid, even if it means not getting to hang with the cool moms. Although, as we have been telling our Girl since she ended up in a class with none of her friends (not even 1 girl from her class last year) "Just because they're not in your class doesn't mean you can't hang out together.
Hope all goes well,
It was so cute today.
The Girl did great but her "boy friend" cried all morning cause she was gone.
It was so cute today.
The Girl did great but her "boy friend" cried all morning cause she was gone.
hope it goes well for Elora. About that intuition thing. I beleive in it totally. A mothers intuition is so important. I can recall a few instances that I did not listen to my intuition and regretted it totally. I learned to listen though and was never disapointed. At least with myself, the kids might of not liked it at the time but I think in the long run it turned out right. In your case I think Elora is going to do great. Too bad for the boyfriend though.
Love to all.
Ahhh...the French Immersion decision....I sat all single mom like listening to presentation and for academic reasons(and that we take mandarin outside of school) I did NOT enrol Olivia in Gr.1 FI(when it starts for us)It was a mistake. Academically she'da nailed it...but socially is WHY I should have put her in. We make the decisions for our kids based on our best instincts and advice at the time. After Grade 2 start, I am finally feeling like avoiding FI was the best for olivia. Elora is way more artistic to be locked into "rules" of FI. She will most likely soar.....and the teachers will reference her for years to come!!!
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