We are lucky that our Principal was able to find a middle school teacher (8th grade) to mentor our DS10 for science. Our school is K-8. Our son goes for science in that class every day, except for one day when he has book club. This is during Language Arts time for his own class. When his classmates are working on their science, then my son needs to finish the work that he misses.
Yes, there is a trade-off. Sometimes he doesn't have as much time as his friends to finish his work. And sometimes he just wants to do science again with his friends! Can't have too much, I suppose
On the other hand, he is really happy and thankfully, the 8th graders are really nice to him.
This pull-out started last February. I have to say that even before he got this pull-out, his 5th grade teacher was really good in designing lesson plans with open-ended projects / homework. The open-ended nature allows children to go as deep as they want.
