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And now, license plates. First, mapping them. Then, writing them all down over and over during the summer We are doing the license plates too only not the state names but rather the numbers. My DS7 has papers everywhere with these codes on them from license plates. "Drive faster mom to catch up to that car" is what I hear a lot. He then looks for random patterns, number patterns, etc. He told me which number was the most common. I think it was 1 and 5. Too funny. So if you see me coming up behind you and squinting at your car, now you know what I am doing. The license plate thing is pretty funny. DS5 memorizes license plates often...but for a while he would only pay attention to the first 3 letters. So he would say things like "hey mom...they have the same license plate as we do" He found a few cars with the same first 3 letters. Now do I know our license plates? No. But he knows them on both of our cars, as well as some of our friends cars. Whatever floats your boat.
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And now, license plates. First, mapping them. Then, writing them all down over and over during the summer We are doing the license plates too only not the state names but rather the numbers. My DS7 has papers everywhere with these codes on them from license plates. "Drive faster mom to catch up to that car" is what I hear a lot. He then looks for random patterns, number patterns, etc. He told me which number was the most common. I think it was 1 and 5. Too funny. So if you see me coming up behind you and squinting at your car, now you know what I am doing. The license plate thing is pretty funny. DS5 memorizes license plates often...but for a while he would only pay attention to the first 3 letters. So he would say things like "hey mom...they have the same license plate as we do" He found a few cars with the same first 3 letters. Now do I know our license plates? No. But he knows them on both of our cars, as well as some of our friends cars. Whatever floats your boat. So funny! Mine are so obsessed that we saw a plate we couldn't recognize while in NJ. DH asked the family where their license plate was from. Family looked at him quizzically -- they spoke little English and had no idea what license plate meant. Turned out they were from Mexico City! We're the ones who are driving too close trying to read the words hidden under the frames. ;-)
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Well we've made some progress. DS6 was advanced to the 1/2 classroom for math. He's still a bit below what he can do but I think they'll catch up and he needs to practice his writing, which is horrible, so I'm happy with the arrangement. I asked about reading, the area where he's far ahead, and she said that won't change for a few more weeks yet.
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Well we've made some progress. DS6 was advanced to the 1/2 classroom for math. He's still a bit below what he can do but I think they'll catch up and he needs to practice his writing, which is horrible, so I'm happy with the arrangement. I asked about reading, the area where he's far ahead, and she said that won't change for a few more weeks yet. Yippee! for Math Boo! for Reading Yippee! for 'the teacher is still talking to you!' I hope your few weeks pass quickly and happily, Grinity
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"Hyperfocus" completely and utterly describes DS7. I've always called him "singularly focused." And really, none of my friends have a kid like this. It's so nice to hear someone else describe what I've been living with for 7 1/2 years!
How do you all handle it? First of all - Don't call it hyperfocus! Call it Intensity! Persistence, curiosity, or OverExcitability! Verbally praise any signs of flexability. Any at all! Then get out the video camera, because it's great to look back on those days when the fire of learning is burning to bright. Smiles, Grinity
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skyward, JJsMom, Jamie, Kareninminn - sounds like things are going well - that's great!
My DS has been sick all week, so no school for him. It's probably a good thing, gives him a break from school, and hopefully a permanent break from the behavior issues - lol! We'll see what next week brings.....
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I sure hope that my DS5's school sees the correlation between 4 days that they have started to give DS more appropriate work and 4 days that DS5 has had great behavior.
glad to see that things are going well for DS Kareninminn, and glad they are still talking about changes for reading.
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I sure hope that my DS5's school sees the correlation between 4 days that they have started to give DS more appropriate work and 4 days that DS5 has had great behavior. I hope so too! If they don't notice, be sure to point it out! m2gts - I hope your DS feels better soon.  But I bet he likes the break.
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"Hyperfocus" completely and utterly describes DS7. I've always called him "singularly focused." And really, none of my friends have a kid like this. It's so nice to hear someone else describe what I've been living with for 7 1/2 years!
How do you all handle it? First of all - Don't call it hyperfocus! Call it Intensity! Persistence, curiosity, or OverExcitability! Verbally praise any signs of flexability. Any at all! Then get out the video camera, because it's great to look back on those days when the fire of learning is burning to bright. Smiles, Grinity "Gifted children may exhibit the following behaviors:" "May show unusually long attention spans and prefer to work on single topics for extended periods of time."~The Misdiagnosed Child Drs. Eide pg. 434 So maybe we aren't all crazy????
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Kareninminn: glad to hear you've made progress and fingers crossed you'll get the reading changes soon.
m2gts: hope your little one gets better soon and it has a good effect on EVERYTHING!
And now, my good news ... so glad so many of us are seeing strides in our schools: Principal pulled me aside today to tell me that DS will be moving classrooms to read with another teacher and a group of 3 other children, one of whom is reading even farther ahead than he is. Apparently, most of the K teachers (there are 5 of them) fought to keep their accelerated learners in their own classrooms, but school leadership told them that 1 does not make a reading group ;-) . I'm doing a big-time happy dance here in MD!
Funny, this is the same principal who told me last June that kids his age who read far ahead don't understand what they are reading. Guess my little guy and a few others showed her!
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