Airing your concerns in a new school year greeting – your child’s food dislikes
If you have any concerns related to school life, you should inform the school as early as possible. The beginning of the new school year is a good opportunity. Schoolteachers will provide special care for your child as necessitated by your concerns, which you can mention when you write a new school year greeting. You should speak to teachers directly to share more detailed aspects of your child’s behavior or your own thoughts and feelings. Here are some examples dealing with a child’s food dislikes.
Model
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すみませんが、よろしくお
（子の名前）は野菜がきらいで、「給食、食べられないから、幼稚園に行きたくない」と言っています。「年中さんだから、少しずつがんばろう！」と言ったら、一応、「うん」と言いました。どうしてもダメだったら先生に言うと思います。
すみませんが、よろしくお願いします。
佐藤
Conversational flow and useful expressions
Greeting
Your concern
Conversations at home
Request
Parent's name
Supplement
To describe grades in preschool, some schools give the class or grade names such as himawari-gumi ("sunflower class") or tsubasa-gumi ("wings class"). They may use "san" instead of "gumi", for example himawari-san or tsubasa-san, or a combination of the two, as in himawari-gumi-san or tsubasa-gumi-san. Although it depends on the school, younger classes may be given names with the -chan suffix, such as zero-chan for age 0-1, issai-chan for age 1-2, and nisai-chan for age 2-3. Kindergarten children, or children 3 years of age and older, are often referred to by their level in a three-year system: nensho-san for first-year students (age 3-4), nenchu-san for second-year students (age 4-5) and nencho-san for third-year students (age 5-6). For classes of children under 3 years of age, -chan tends to be added to the name, with –san used for classes of children over 3 years of age.