Thanks for the fast replies.
He will be 11 in December. The 5th and 6th grades do not share a room, they are adjacent and the kids go back and forth. One teacher for Math and Social Studies, both grades, and the other for LA and Science. The math teacher is the same he had last year for his math/reading gifted pullout program. They just started the full day program this year (but cannot do any real acceleration within the class due to state standards.) They do have the Accelerated Math software program and she said he was welcome to do the 6th grade portion this year as well as the rest of the 5th, if we choose not to whole-grade accelerate. But they do not have, nor will get, the 7th grade program this year or next. And he has to do this after he finishes his normal work. This school is grades 3-6. 7-8 move up to the middle school.
Organizational skills did ramp up this year for both the 5th and 6th graders in this program. They don't appear much different for the two grades. Son's best friend and next door neighbor is in the 6th grade gifted class, he has similar organizational expectations, but neither are having too much trouble adapting.
One concern about skipping is that in our state there are a few programs the kids can qualify for in high school (a highly competitive tuition-free math and science boarding school in 11-12th grade) and scholastic summer camps, that require them to take the SAT in 7th or 10th grade, admission is based on those scores. So having the extra year to prepare would benefit...but only if he is actually preparing, not coasting.
He has expressed an interest in skipping, we told him we were considering it.
His math teacher gave us the websites, Hoagies, Duke TIP program(which he was accepted to last year)I suppose to prepare us for the fight we will have with the administration, if decide to pursue this. She has a child in our High School now, who skipped an early grade.
I have ordered the Iowa Acceleration Manual, should be here Wednesday. We don't want to wait to long to do this if we decide to, school has been in session for about a month, they are just finishing "review."
