my daughter is 5. for about two weeks now, most evenings, she says "i didn't get my turn". that's all. could be the swing, could be answering in class, could be the snack line. i ask and she changes the subject. i'd rather not be the parent messaging the teacher every night or guess wrong and make it bigger than it is. if i get to ask one question, what would actually tell me something
mine says this too
turn for what though 🤔
that's the thing, she won't say. i've tried swing, line, snack, she just shrugs
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If you ask whether she gets turns, the answer will almost always be yes. A more useful question might be which activity she has been talking about at home, and whether there's a rotation for it. The tradeoff is that it takes the teacher longer to answer, so you may not hear back the same day.
With my grandson the complaint turned out to be about class helper duty, which went by roll number. He had not had a turn for weeks simply because of where his name fell. We only learnt that by asking how turns were decided, not whether he was getting them.
how turns are decided. that's a much better way to put it than what i'd drafted
we had a few weeks of "nobody lets me" at 4. i never found out what it was. it just stopped one day, and i still don't know if anything changed at school
that's sort of what i'm afraid of, never knowing 🥲
Ask the teacher if she has seen her waiting a lot. Teachers notice. Short question, she can answer in one line.
yes, one line is ideal
We had something similar with our son at 5. I would separate what you know from what you're guessing: you know she is upset about turns, you don't yet know which activity. I asked the teacher which part of the day he seemed most frustrated in, and that narrowed it down.
i like that. it doesn't ask her to investigate anything, just to notice
Mine said almost the same thing for a while in kindergarten. I asked his teacher one thing, whether he was raising his hand and not getting picked. Turned out he was, a lot, and she started giving him the attendance job twice a week. He stopped mentioning it after that.
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