Originally Posted by Jamie B
Have you talked to the teacher about giving him more advanced work or did she do it on her own?

I'm having the same issues as you where my son is bored but right now they won't do anything for him because of his behavior. They said they were going to give him some 1st grade work in class but what it's turned into is 1st grade (and Kindergarten) work at home so some nights we're doing over an hour of homework.

My son does things to make his homework more fun. Instead of counting normally he'll count by 2s or 5s or 10s. When he has to write his name he'll write it and make patterns out of the letters. I guess that's hard to know what I'm talking about without seeing it smile I do supplement some at home but with all of the homework that he's been having lately I hate giving him more stuff to do.

You should talk to the principal or teacher and see what they think about moving him to a higher grade at least for some of his subjects.

I sent an email to the principal on Friday - still waiting on a response from him on that frown

His teacher knew he was reading as she is the one who assessed him in July - while they don't normally assess reading he was reading everything on the walls to her so she went and grabbed some books for him to read. She said she made lots of notes all over his assessment and was really glad she got him in her class. She started having him do reading comprehension worksheets on her own (1st grade ones) but we still haven't gotten anywhere on math stuff. She does keep all his higher grade stuff though so it may be that he is doing them and I'm not seeing them, but from my volunteering in class I haven't seen him do anything higher but the reading stuff.

She also (finally) got him tested so he can check out books and take Acclerated Reader quizzes so that maybe he'll continue to *want* to work on his reading. He tested at 2.3 there so we'll see how that goes. He's only taken one quiz so far but should take 2 more on Friday I think.

They don't do GATE until 3rd grade so I worry that my options are very limited but something needs to be different at least for next year (though I'd love at least 1st grade work to come home for homework). On a 'whim' I had him take the placement tests for k12 (we have cava.k12 here) and it placed him in 2nd grade for both reading and math. Of course I had to say he was 6 just to get the option to take the reading one. On a side note it put my 4 yr old in 1st grade (had to say she was 5 to take the math one even, lol)