Spend at least 30 minutes sitting quietly in a first grade classroom, kindy and 2nd grade. My guess is that will tell you all you need to know.
Some families do kindy and skip first, particularly if it's a half day kindy. If your son has done any preschool with agemates then you have a pretty good idea of his tolerance for agemates.
and the Marathon continues!
WJ-cog isn't one of the more popular IQ tests, so I don't have much info on it. Seems like it sure it hard to know what will happen in kindy until you get there - unless he has had 'issues' with agemates previously in daycare/preschool.
Is it a half day kindy program? If so, you could certainly try it and see how it goes - particularly if the teacher is hand picked. Somehow teachers of younger kids are often better at accepting and accomidating 'individual differences' than teacher in mid-elementary school, after all the flip side of
they all even out by 3rd grade
is that the teacher isn't expecting to have to accomidate such a wide range of individual differences.
I love the idea of subject acceleration, for math and reading, if the school will offer it.
It might be nice to do kindy with agemates, then get a WISC IV after he turn age 6 to decide on skipping 1st. Again - not if he has a history of 'issues' with agemates in preschool/daycare.
If it's a full day kindy program, sometimes the schools will allow kindy in the morning and 1st in the afternoon.
Go in and observe! That's the best way to know. I mean it.
Love and More Love,
Grinity
