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Parenting and Advocacy
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Thanks for your advice, everyone. Gifted Mom, my son’s teacher is also determined that he needs to learn to do boring work. (Thank you very much for the book recommendation, BTW.) In some ways, I agree – sometimes you just need to practice (like h
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General Discussion
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Originally Posted By: twomooseMy DD had a similar experience in K and 1st grade. I wouldn't say she ever seemed average - but- I pointed out to her K teacher that, although her skills in reading were "just" above average, her verbal skills,
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Elementary School
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Good luck!
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Elementary School
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I don't know. I'm not sure if he has ADD, there are some signs, or if he's overwhelmed by the amount of writing that he's rebelling against everything. They are adjusting things so that while he still has to do the writing they're taking some pressur
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General Discussion
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Yes, I have had that experience with my DD14 who prefers to blend in at school. Her math teacher recently made a big deal of her abilities in front of the class and she was mortified. She has a rich social life with cheerleading, dance. Her closest f
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Elementary School
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Do you think that you can get a better feel for where he's at instead of the teachers? Has he said why he's not doing the work?
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Elementary School
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Good luck with your decision, Jamie. I had a long talk with DSs teacher, I feel a lot better about the whole situation and now feel she will work with me. I feel like a huge weight has been lifted off of my shoulders. I think a lot of the problem li
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General Discussion
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My son would love this museum, as he is also extremely interested in nuclear physics. Here is the official link about Navajo Code Talkers. http://www.navajocodetalkers.org/
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General Discussion
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This place is wonderfully quirky: American International Rattlesnake Museum And the Petroglyph National Monument is great, too. Enjoy!
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General Discussion
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Crazy Daisy, How was the IEP yesterday? I hope she's going to start getting what she needs. I know what you mean about your DD not believing that she knows as much as the other kids. My DD definitely thought the same thing at first. In the first
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Identification, Testing & Assessment
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Hi tigerlb923--we are reading the IAS book by ourselves hoping to be better prepared when we meet with the school. Parts of the IAS evaluation does require teachers' input and assessment. It basically has 10 sections of evaluation (such as school
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General Discussion
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Oo! Oo! We visited that museum 8 years ago at its old location. It was called the National Atomic Museum then. We loved it. It was my favorite museum ever (but I'm a nuclear physics junkie, so...). Can you still walk right to all the airplanes and
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Recommended Resources
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by $15 for this course. I just found out and wanted to let everyone know. It will then continue be prorated by the same amount each month until open for early registration for next year in March or April. That is the information I am being given
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General Discussion
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My DD had a similar experience in K and 1st grade. I wouldn't say she ever seemed average - but- I pointed out to her K teacher that, although her skills in reading were "just" above average, her verbal skills, visuospatial skills, reasonin
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Identification, Testing & Assessment
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GD5 (just turned 5-1/2 & in K) was tested at age 4-8 at her private preschool by their school psychologist consultant. Pysc. said she wanted to do different testing, but since she scored from above avg - superior, school said no need to test mor
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Elementary School
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Thanks Kriston. I really think that I do want to try it. I'm going to wait and see what happens with the principal and then really decide. I'll let you guys know!
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Identification, Testing & Assessment
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As part of our new "academically talented program" rubric" we have been asked to fill out a SIGS (Scales for Identifying Gifted Students) survey. Has anyone ever heard of this or been asked to fill it out. It is questions asked by pa
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Recommended Resources
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Maxpat - did you get the kit? What do you think?
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Pre-school
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Hunh. The shape sorter worked. I was a little surprised, but I figured it was worth a try, since there was one in the closet. Cool He grabs my laptop too, I may look into a kids' keyboard soon, that sounds like it might work. I also gave him an
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Elementary School
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Jamie: Keep in mind that especially at young ages, most kids do not need more than a couple/three hours per day for homeschooling. And you don't actually have to do all of it/any if it during the week. It is pretty flexible. The time commitment incr
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Regions
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Hi. Can you please tell me if there is an e-mail address or a phone number that I can reach you at? I have some questions about membership. My son is in 4th grad and took the WISC IV. I received his PRI, VCI, WMI< PSI and FSIQ scores (he took the
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Regions
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I'm sorry. I didn't know any other way to post to the last post who was talking about the conference with HEROES. There was no info on the website. I will try to figure how to start a new thread.
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Elementary School
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Poor thing thinking that she didn't do a good job I hope that the teacher can get less stressed so that everybody has a good day! DS has had the SB-IV, Woodcock-Johnson and the Kaufmann (I think it's called). They aren't really doing anything as fa
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Regions
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We are not members of DYS! I still do not know what test they gave my son...and have not seen any scores. I only have a form in which they hand wrote a IQ of 163. At this point I'm not really trying to get into our schools one hour a week call out pr
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General Discussion
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Austin, You might consider checking out the Indian Cultural Heritage Center in ABQ while you're in NM. My kids loved it last year. There's also Explora, which is their version of a children's museum and their Natural History Museum.
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