difficulty in identifying letters

@oysterzzz - First of all, don't beat yourself up. We all do our best given our situations. We all want what's best for our children. Sometimes we need a little help and direction. She is just five, so don't push the panic button yet. This tuition teacher jumped out at me. Sweetheart, even if she is restless with you, she can get from you what she can't get from others. You are her first and best teacher. She is too little for a tuition teacher. I understand how hard it is with a baby but maybe someone can watch the baby for an hot while you just play with her, bond with her and she won't even realise you are teaching her. Teaching a five year old, shouldn't feel like teaching. Making letters out of sand, writing random letters with rice and making her guess, maybe even colour the rice with haldi and kumkum and make her guess the red letter and yellow letter. If she can't, give her the answer and let her repeat. You can keep playing this way until she gets it. Even kids who have issues will pick up things in time.

I have a few things to say. I think an eval will be a good thing since she seems to not get the letters out of order. How about the numbers? Colours? Shapes?

Does she know only one language? How many languages can she comprehend?
If you tell her, take this yellow book, go put it on daddy's desk in his study and bring me the red book from the desk - will she be able to follow through without help or repetition of instruction in a language she is comfortable in? How fluent is her English?
By careless, I hope you meant playful with mom. All kids are like that, they learn more from moms and are prone to behaviours that they reserve for moms. Is she having trouble paying attention to things at school or at other places. Is she engaged in school or distracted? Does she need constant one on one attention from the teacher?

How about things like dressing herself? Can she put on pants without losing balance
while on one leg? Can she button up shirts? Open jars and bottles? Grip the pen in the proper grip?

From what you have written, I think whatever it is, it's a minor issue that can be fixed with the right way of teaching her stuff. If you get her evaluated, the person doing the eval or someone he recommends will be able to guide you further.

Btw, is there any possibility that she knows the letters and is just so bored that she won't play along? Instead of letters, try sounds. She may identify the sound better.

If she seems typical in all other ways and this is her only set back, then just make t fun for her. Make it less rote, less boring. I also suggest letting her paint a letter a day and do all sorts of things around the letter. Like eat food that starts with the letter, do
wn activity that starts with the letter, make the letter the centre of your life for the next 4-5 days and then move onto the next letter. She'll probably get that sooner than the TV programs.

im sorry for the long post. Hope you find answers, @oysterzzz. Good luck to you!


@shanvy - thanks for the tag. I'm not sure how much I've helped

 

Oysterzzz - Glad she is doing good. My dd has number names, reading and sight words in ukg. Reading is common here too. Here we don't have number names but rather numbers 1-100 but a lot of emphasis on numbers. Oh and dd had to write sentences using cursive writing. It's a lot for kids these days. Any way of finding a different school where they don't have so much to do in ukg?