Day Dreaming at School

Volunteer in his class whenever possible. Ask the teacher if you can sit with your son and help keep him on task. By being there you show your son that his education is important, even if it means you have to start work late and come home late. You will also be able to see if the work is too difficult or easy for him and if that is why he is daydreaming.

Is he getting good grades??? The work/teacher may be boring him. They have great minds that are always going. There may be something else to it.... not just a day dreamer.. but nothing serious to worry about... talk to him and see what he says, if he thinks he is a day dreamer or if he thinks he is having a hard time paying attention to his teacher? Is there someone next to him causing distractions? Is the work to hard, so he gives up? Is the work to easy, that he doesnt have to listen to the teacher teach him?? Does he have a hard time listening to you???
Good luck!

R.,
It is so hard to say. My little older daughter used to do anything but her school work. I was reemed by her second grade teacher because the teacher knew her abilities, but she did not always perform. She told me my daughter would crawl under the desk, act out, disrupt, etc. I was shocked that was my daughters behavior since I felt she was not raised that way. Sometimes she would do so good reading and sometimes she would screw off. Sometimes she could stay within the lines when writing sentences and some times she wrote right down the side of the paper.

That summer, I took her in for photos and the photographer had so much fun with her, he kept shooting and flashing the lights on her. Well in the photos, one eye took off to the left while the other stayed in place. She had a lazy eye. It wasn't apparent until she was really tired.

As it turned out, her eye would get tired and she couldn't see. The doctor (below) told me to have her sit at the front of the class because it was too much work on her eyes to look at the board from a distance and then down on lined paper and back up as they wrote sentences. So when she couldn't do it anymore, she screwed off, or just wrote down the side of her paper. I would have never thought!

I took her to a great doctor here in Vegas Dr. Mary Carroll who is considering retirement, but she did 24 weeks of eye therapy with her and her eye did a lot better without the surgery. She is an adult now and she doesn't seem to have these problems. In fact, it actually increased her hand eye coordination like you wouldn't believe. Now my baby has a little lazy eye. I have to get her in to see her before she retires on me.

Best of luck. Just watch you little guy for any signs of things that could distract him or make him give up and just day dream.

This may not give you any relief in what you are asking but years ago my brother was daydreaming in school. They (professionals at school) thought he had ADD.
Turns out he was just bored in class. He ended up being in advanced classes. You may want to see if he is just plain bored.

You might think about getting him tested for ADD---That is what my son has. Also look into Irlen Syndrome---

Maybe he is bored and the school work too easy. Have you had him tested for GATE? Is it at a certain time of day or on and off throughout. Make sure he is getting enough to eat and enough sleep.