Just had a chance finally to read back on everyone's updates.

Jamie B: Hugs to you. Hope you figure out soon what's going on. This probably isn't your situation, but is DS on any medicines that could be contributing? We saw really erratic, awful behavior problems with my DS last winter/spring because of one of his asthma medicines. He didn't react in any other way so it took me awhile and a bunch of research to put the two together.

ShellyMos: Glad to see things are sorting out. Hope they stay on the good track!

MsFriz: Your school sounds like heaven.

Just a quick update here. DS5's teacher saw me on Thursday and told me that she'd finished her initial assessment and DS is currently in a reading group of 2, but that he'll have some work that he'll be doing alone. And they're putting him on the accelerated curriculum (not sure yet what that involves). Plus, the best news of all, she said that either she or the reading specialist is going to do further reading assessments on him! I think everyone's trying to figure out exactly where his reading level is and what he understands and doesn't with what he reads. Even I can't figure it out. He answers about half my questions about the books right.

Plus, she's got a puppet theater in the classroom that he loves. And I told her that he'd been reading Flat Stanley books at home. This weekend he told me that there's now a Flat Stanley book in the classroom library :-) Oh, and she's okay with his perfectionistic tendencies. So, when he wants extra time to do something just so, she gives it to him or sends it home for him to finish.

This has been SUCH a roller coaster month!