6 year old school trouble

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I'm completely baffled with my son as of late. He just turned 6 before Kindergarden started. He's a very intellegent child, sounding out words and has very strong math skills. His father recently got a new job and was put on nights, the only time he gets to spend with our son is Friday night, all of Saturday, and Sunday nights. In addition to changes at home he has a new two month old baby brother. I am now back to work, but I work the same time he's at school. He does chores at home and is very good at earning an allowance. He's very helpful taking care of small things that I ask him to do. For punishment I'll take away privelleges and he gets one minute for each year of age for timeout. I've never had any problems at home with him. In Preschool my son had trouble with transitioning from activity to activity. However, the teacher let him know five minutes before any changes and this seemed to help. Now he's in Kindergarden, everything went downhill from the first day he went. Our Kindergarden is all day-everyday. There has only been three days that he behaved well all day.  He has gotten three red slips so far twice for saying "I'm going to kill you" or "your going to kill me" and the newest one is he punched someone. He's throwing tantrums, and crying most of the day. He's lying as well. He'll blame the other children for things they haven't done. He says he doesn't have many friends. I've asked the teacher to start a journal for him and we read it together everyday. It has been the same discussion everyday. Also the same promises from him that he'll do better. We'll leave for school in the morning very positive about the day, only to find the same results when he gets home. Since we have started the journal, I have put two jars for his behavior and let him cut out a toy he would like and glued it one the jar. I have also taken away his favorite toys and put them in a bag. Each week he has a chance to earn them back. He doesn't have to be good everyday. Just start with improvement good behavior 3 out of the 5 days. He can't do it. He sees the principal daily and the school phyciatrist now twice. She's kindof confussed too.  Recently I caught him lying. Which he got into trouble for. He also told me Jesus was going to kill me. I started taking him to Sunday school. He hasn't said anything bad about Jesus since. I bought some books about feelings and we read them almost daily. I'm staying consistant with everything I've been trying at home. He does his chores and does his bedtime rituals with no questions asked. I praise him for when he does good deeds. I don't let him play video games. He isn't improving at school. I don't know what else to do. It makes me so sad that he is struggling. I don't know how else to help him improve.

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He's talked to her twice now I'm still waiting for an answer. I left a message saying I would like a meeting. We'll see.

[Angie810]

Has be been assessed by a phycologist to determine the root of the problem?

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I've talked to her a few times on the phone and she sounds pretty reasonable. I really don't think that's it. I won't rule it out. Today there was no school so he had to go to daycare. He lied to her three times, and had timeout twice. She said that there's some change with him since he's started school. (she's been her daycare lady since he was one) She is a surprised as I am about it.

[peskysmom]

Could it be a conflict with his teacher?