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OUR FIRST DAYS IN KINDERGARTEN – DIARY
Examples from teacher s diaries
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P. was 3 years old when he was signed up for kindergarten.
He was a child strongly attached to his family members,
which made his beginnings in the kindergarten with a lot of
crying, aggressive behavior, refusal to sleep and to talk to
the teachers. I gave to his mother the opportunity to sit for a
while with him in the classroom and play with the other
children. From day to day, we reduced the amount of time,
but his relationship with the children in the group and
teachers was greatly improved, the crying almost
disappeared. Just in the morning, when he was separated
from his parents, he was crying a little. But we have always
encouraged him, we have always spoken to him calmly and
as far as possible, placing us at his level so that he can see
us as well. The month was not over, and the moments of
anger had completely disappeared, he no longer wept,
talked with all the children and all the adults, it came from
his own initiative to embrace us. Following his evolution, we
already concluded that P. was fully adapted and integrated
into the group. In time P. recorded a lot of success, he
progressed permanently. Currently, P. is a child eager to
relate to other children, discovering from day to day the
pleasure of cooperation in the game and other activities, he
likes to talk with kindergarten staff and colleagues,
especially as his vocabulary was enriched, and the amount
of knowledge also, he has already assimilated a number of
working techniques, which creates for him a state of comfort
when receiving a task. More recently, he has shown
pleasure in playing games, mostly with cars, with racing
tracks. E. was signed up at the age of 3 for kindergarten. Because
he was an only child, he could not adapt to collectivity by
refusing by all means to socialize. Parents decided to keep
him in the family until the age of 5, when they retried
socialization.
A fearful and spoiled child, he refused to enter alone in the
group of children, so for a while he was accompanied by his
mother (only during the free games).
There followed another period when his mother would stay
in the hallway and the child, while playing with other children
in the group, was checking the hall to see his mother.
There was another period of absence because of a health
problem accused by his mother. Upon returning to
collectivity, E. went into the group room, played for 10
minutes and then went to the hall to tell his mother: "Now I
let you go!". This game of accommodation lasted until the
winter holiday.
After the holiday, E. did not need the support of his mother
to feel like home at the kindergarten.
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