Sampras
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Early Admission of a Gifted Child
Public schools in our state mandate completion of 5 years to start kindergarten. My daughter was 4 years & 9 months old, and because she had already completed an year of montesoori preschool and was able to read and write, we sent her to a Chartered school. She will be completing her 2nd grade soon. Her trimester score cards since KG have varied from A+ to B and is always rated overall A. She is good in Math, reading and making her own stories. She fairs very well in social skills, art, craft, and music. She is learning music and dance, and reads music notations very well. She has given some performances for large audiences as well. But I have some concerns; (a) her attention span is little low - when 20+ problems are given, she invariably makes 2-3 mistakes although problems are similar. (b) with comprehesion she misses basic points, while being right on complex ones; (c) if 2 or 3 problems or questions have a pattern, she assumes the rest have the same pattern; (d) seem to have trouble with phonix - at times: I find her writing words like Kan, probebly,thousend for Can, probably, thousand respectively. Recently she gave a test for 3rd grade gifted program, where she was assessed at 97 percentile in non-verbal, 85 in quantitative, and 63 in verbal categories. I am wondering if I should have her repeat 2nd grade and retake gifted test next year. I know it may be boring, but would repetition help her with attention span, phonix and overall emotional skills? Please advise.
In Topics:
Kindergarten readiness, My gifted child
> 60 days ago
