DS7 has warmed up to his new (gifted private) school and loves it! We've seen amazing improvement on his handwriting skills, his willingness to guess the spelling for unknown words, and even his math fluency (though it's still an area of relative weakness). His teachers really seem to understand his learning style (slower but deeper) and are good at giving him space to think about his responses. He often surprises both his classmates and his teachers with the associations he makes on a regular basis.
After having worked quite hard on arithmetic this year, he gets a break with the current unit now being geometry.
He's super excited!
