Thanks everyone for the advice. I feel a bit stuck. We have two strong choices. One is an accelerated creative program, ready to place her in K (K teacher met with her and said that was a much more appropriate placement as she is ready to read). The other is a K-1 combined class, an experiential learning model- very small school- lots of hands on, but also lots of time to play and be outside. DD has withdrawn a lot and is really unmotivated coming out of her second year in Montessori. I am sure the first one would get her engaged and motivated again, teacher was great, but she is also a sensitive soul and is asking those bigger life questions, not sure if the accelerated program would give her time to investigate those issues. I do feel like I have to make a trade though on this...DH likes accelerated program ;-)
