General Chat

You can all pace if you want to- I have been eating toffees!!!!! :-D :-D

Thank you Linda, :-D

You can sit down as well Tec, Sue is younger than either of us, so she can do the pacing

Do I have to pace............?

or can I just sit here trying not to think about it...........

It is incredibly humid here,so can I pace from the sofa?

Good morning ladies and gentleman :-)

My goodness - are we pacing again? How exciting :-)

Persie - I wouldn't dare quake either :-0

Thinking of your daughter Jem - hope you will get some good news soon.

Persie you are very brave going to Wellington, and I hope there will be no quakes while you are there.

I went to school when I was four and two months. My fourth birthday was in January, and I started school after Easter in March. There was no pre-school in those days.
I believe that in some Scandinavian countries the children attend pre-school until they are seven. There is no serious education during that time. The emphasis is on social skills, and interacting with each other.
Serious education begins at seven, and apparently by the time they are ten to eleven they have overtaken the standard of education we have in this country at that age.
Interesting.

How exciting Jem, we will all pace with you

Hi Linda and everyone else:-) :-)

Daughter in labour as we speak!! They broke her waters about 7ish (our time). She was on gas and air when she spoke to me on the phone 10 minutes ago!! :-)

Granddaughter 4 has worn me out today!!! :-S

I'm sorry about your Granddaughter Linda, I have been reading about her. Hope everything improves and that she will be feeding properly soon, and that your Eve will have her sister home.

Love to you all, JemX <3

It wouldn't dare quake when you were there Persie :-)

I think they start here after whatever school holiday break has just been. If it is a private school you can start after you have enrolled as soon as it is your 5th birthday.

My daughter is working from home (Wellington) the building she works in is not deemed safe, so some of her stuff is stuck in there including her money collection jar for cancer. They are waiting for temporary offices. I think with those that they have secluded would collapse with another large quake if they are not fixed first.

The quake when it happened was on a Sunday evening... if it had been a normal weekday there could have been a lot more injured or worse as it was peak time when everyone would have been leaving work and heading home.

I will be down there end of August and have declared it shall be earthquake free that week... though there usually is a little bitty one when we are there.

I think I need Drew to tidy up OH's computer Sue, but he does know about percentages.


Persie

Hello Jem, good to meet you. It seems far more sensible to have the three intakes. On the other hand my next door neighbour is a reception class teacher and from her point of view when they did have the mid year entries, it was back to square one again with the whole class.

I hope that your daughter will be fine, my new granddaughter Esme is all of thirteen days old today, but it looks like she is going to be in the special care/ neo natal unit for quite a long time as she won't feed by herself and has most of her milk put in through a stomach tube.

I am off out now, I need to pay a cheque in, but helpfully my bank closed the branch where I live,so I have to venture further afield

Here in Australia or at least in NSW a child must have turned 5 before the 1st of August. As our youngest has a July birthday we kept him home until the following school year. He excelled at both reading and mathematics. He was also socially more confident.

A sunny but quite chilly day today :-)

Hi Sue, Sylvia, Linda and Everyone,

Just a quick post as I am expecting Granddaughter number 4 (aged 5) at any moment as my daughter is going into hospital to see if she is going to be induced with the baby today. She has had a bad pregnancy and has a history of problems.

In my part of Wales, there are 3 intakes- at the beginning of September, January and after Easter, after their 4th birthdays. Our primary school has a nursery from 3 (same intake) starting at half a day progressing to a full day.

How are you all. Pleased to meet you LindaHerriotCountry- I loved All Creatures Great And Small. I watched it through last year! Nostalgia! :-D :-)

Hope you are all well and happy- Jem <3

She's here! So bye for nowx

Hello Sylvia

Here children start school in the academic year in which they will be five ( Sept-Sept) It used to be that they had two intakes during the year,so that the children who would be five from September to March started first, then those with a birthday from March to the following September would join them in March. That has now been scrapped, so all the children start in the September. Eve's birthday is the very end of June, so when she starts school, she will be eleven months younger than some of her classmates.The latest research shows that these younger children do not do as well academically as their older classmates.

She should be OK because she is very bright and is encouraged at home. She loves stickers and was playing with them while I was down, I end up covered in them and have to remember to take them off before I go out. She had a sheet of letter stickers and without any adult input,she brought me three which she told me were my name. When I looked, she had brought me all the letter g stickers, which I thought was pretty impressive as she has only just turned three. She then sorted all those for her name, mummy and daddy. I know a single letter is not a name, but she is getting there. Her counting is pretty good as well, she can reel off the numbers as far as thirteen, but then she goes back to eight.

Her daytime sleeping is the other way round from your grandson. On the three days she goes to nursery (oops preschool) she usually doesn't sleep, probably because she is so busy and in the new room she has moved up to, the older ones have all dropped their naps, but at home she often sleeps. I think that is because she gets twisty and her father finds it easier to put her to bed, that means she is up very late on an evening of course.

Hi Sue, and everyone


still sunny ............. but feeling very "muggy"

Daughter and her family have just had a 2 week "stay-cation", as they now call it.

Grandson, 3½ years old, informed them in the first week that ............ "I big now, not a baby. I not need a nap"

His sentence structure needs some work ................. but it was obvious what he meant.

It worked well while they were all on the "stay-cation".

But I have not heard how this week went, when he was back in day care!


Over here, children don't go to kindergarten until age 5 (5 before December 31 that is), and then it usually is only for half-a-day. Grade 1 in school starts at 6.

Pre-school is usually age 4, for half-a-day, although some start at age 3 ............. usually for disadvantaged kids, to try to give them a head-start.

Kids who have been in daycare are usually ahead of most kids who have not .............. that's because daycare providers almost always teach children how to read their own names and count, at the very least. Too many other children don't get that. Also, children with daycare experience seem to have a little more confidence around other children, and in being left at school by parents.

It still seems late to me to start school, though!



Take care everyone



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No room for more chairs, Linda :-0

Goodnight - sweet dreams <3

It is late,so I had better go to bed. enjoy your day, but no more chair buying :-)

I'd only had the IPad for a short while - that's why I panicked when I noticed the screens had changed :-D I'm very grateful to Drew :-D

Goodnight Tec, sleep well

I have all my apps organised in folders, don't you know anything Sue :-0