Guide: How to set up your User Flair The Reddit Education Network Students and non-teachers must remain positive and respectful. These posts will be manually approved as soon as possible. Note: We welcome new accounts, but posts from accounts with low ages or karma levels will be automatically removed by the filter. Dd12's 2nd grade class had a lot of advanced readers in it and it the "high" reading group did have some good conversations about the books they were reading.The goal of r/Teachers is to provide a supportive community for teachers and to inform and engage in discourse with educational stakeholders about the teaching profession. While they can send him higher level books into K as they seem to be doing, I do like the idea of having the opportunity for peer interactions and discussions about books that likely won't be taking place w/out the acceleration. The other kids, and even the teachers, don't really think about her as younger anymore she's just one of them. Like others have said, there is sometimes a degree of "wow, you're so smart" type of attention from the others kids, but we've found that it abated over time. She still is much less physically developed than the other 8th grade girls, but she's grown 8-9 inches in the past two and a half years so she no longer stands out as a shrimp. In 6th grade she stood out a little b/c she hadn't hit that big growth spurt yet and was one of the smallest in her grade (which was new for her b/c she really isn't unusually tiny like her younger sister who is used to being the smallest). She went to an accelerated 4th grade grouping for the entire language arts block (reading, writing, spelling) in 3rd and skipped the entire year of 5th.īecause she wasn't the only 3rd grader going to the 4th grade class, that one was easy and she didn't feel like she stood out. I'm not sure that I'll add much that others haven't but we do have experience with language arts subject acceleration and grade acceleration for dd12. For ex., he doesn't always have that best buddy to partner up with, and he feels a little left out when they're running around w/ gross motor, but he takes it all in stride. Mine is also still little and talks "younger" than everyone else, so now that he's in 4th/5th grade classes, there are some moments when I really feel for him. He feels more of a connection w/ the now-3rd graders than he does with the now-1st graders, so that could be a great thing. If your son does want to try it, though, I don't think it hurts! My DS-now 6 has been mingling with older kids all along, and 2 years older isn't a huge gap. Even in retrospect, the acceleration jump wouldn't have added any more for him. Even without accelerating him in school, he went from 3rd grade reading in August, to reading the entire Harry Potter series on his own in the Spring, to testing at an 8.9 grade level in reading by May. It didn't matter for the school, but he loved seeing his reading level impove with the scores. When he finished books, I could take him to the library and he could take his Lexile quiz. We considered accelerating (for all subjects), but instead kept him in K with his own book bins set at his Lexile score. He was reading MagicTreeHouse at 3, and officially reading at mid-3rd grade level on Lexile in the first week of K. We had similar issues last year with my then-5 K'er. Five IS very young to handle the social situation if he's not up for it. My sense is that if your son really doesn't want to do it, it doesn't hurt him at all to just simply keep him with the K class and let him read at home with you this year. He's no longer worried about standing out, anyway! And for kids who are advanced, they likely aren't missing too much in kindergarten. But now, a year later, he tells me he likes his pullouts (still GT, math, speech) because he sometimes gets out of some things he doesn't like. As for pullouts, my DS was pulled out quite a bit in kindy - for speech, math, and GT - and at the time he didn't like getting pulled out so much, because he stood out. At that age, kids don't really seem to care too much. I wouldn't worry too much about what the 2nd graders think. Is there a writing component? If so, how is your DS with writing? I ask because my DS-almost-7 refused to learn how to write until he went to kindergarten, and he skipped first, and his writing is still pretty bad compared with the 2nd graders. Is it just reading and discussion groups? If just that, I can think it can only be positive to discuss books that your DS might be more interested in.
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