Summer must be getting close, because folks like Borders, Barnes and Noble and TD Bank are starting to put out their summer reading incentives. Also check out Scholastic’s Summer Reading Challenge, which includes book lists too. If you’re looking for more book ideas, check out Education.com’s Recommended Reading and Oprah’s Kids’ Reading List. We opened a [...]
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Last week Carnegie Mellon announced their C-MITES weekend workshops in Lower Merion. C and a friend are both attending for the first time, though different classes. C will be newly 6 and hopefully not too much younger than the other kids. It will be his first experience with a group of other children like himself, even [...] Time is just flying by and now C’s additional testing with our public school district is just days away and I still haven’t mentioned it to him. I will have to this weekend, but still am uncertain how I will approach it. I’m not sure whether I should be honest and tell him that it’s likely [...] I got a call from the school district yesterday to schedule C’s GIEP meeting in a couple weeks. This is now 10 months into my battle with the district to have C identified as a gifted student. I have a feeling that the GIEP will not be acceptable on the first go around, especially since they [...] At C’s school they pair up first graders with older students for buddy activities. Today, C and his buddy read together. He was supposed to bring in his favorite book for the activity. While last week at school he wrote that the Secrets of Droon series was his favorite, he didn’t want to take a Droon [...] Back in August Carnegie Mellon posted their Pittsburgh weekend workshops for grades k-9. This week they posted their Lower Merion workshops for grades 1-9. We haven’t done any of these yet, but they seem like a good opportunity for children to meet other gifted kids and do something fun and challenging together. C finished his public school [...] I’ve been offline the past few days, going back and forth with C’s new school. It hasn’t been very encouraging. It seems like whenever I push for him to get higher level work, they respond by talking about putting him back in kindergarten due to social, physical, or whatever reasons. The latest is that they’re saying [...] I started a thread on the Davidson forum for the first time tonight. I’m trying to keep an open mind and get some feedback from other parents before I meet with C’s school. I don’t want to advocate for the wrong thing. I just want C to be happy and successful in school. DS5 started first grade [...] C finished his third day of school today with no major problems. Hurray! He seems to be adjusting well to his new school and new routine. He’s had some minor complaints about not learning much and about not having much play time. He told me today that they went over vowels, but that he didn’t mind [...] Well, it’s official. C started first grade today! He even seemed excited about it when he got up today and when he got home told us that he wants to go to the same school for second grade. I think that means it was a pretty successful day! He checked out 3 books from the library [...] |
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