Mom, have you ever had to repeat a grade?

That is the question Will has been asking me. That is after only one week of school. Yikes!

He says 4th grade gets harder and harder every day and that he doesn't know if he will make it to 5th.

Poor baby. That worries me a little bit. Not that he actually won't make it to 5th grade, but that he already thinks it is hard. He was saying this at the end of day 4!

So, I had talked to him a little bit about what he thought was hard. He couldn't really tell me, but I told him that if it really starts to seem to hard that he needs to tell me or Mrs. C or Mr. P. That we are all here to make sure he gets to 5th grade. I told him that we can get help from a tutor or he can maybe stay after school a little bit with the teacher or stay in at lunch if he has something that he really is having trouble with.

I am debating whether or not to send an email to Mrs. C about his concerns. I want to touch base with her about him and about his experiences in 3rd grade. But, I kinda want to give her enough time to form an opinion on Will in her classroom. Maybe at the end of this week I will send her an email. That will give him the rest of this week to see how it is going and what he is thinking now.

I do have a feeling, though, that we could be in for a long year with him.