yes - considering homeschooling as well. he is very very social - and has been in a school environment or a while..so would be big change...am researching homeschooling as well. i know it will be better for him in many ways, but i also know that he would become incredibly accelerated - he learns very quickly and i am a bit worried that this 3 year gap between his age and ability will continue to expand...that next year I will have a child technically ready for 1st but on a 5th grade reading level and 3rd or 4th grade math. i never know with these kids what's right to do frankly...slow them down, work at their pace...never know what serves them best. any opinions on this. i feel with both my kids (as is the case with many of these kids) - it is like a bottomless well that needs and wants to be filled, so the compulsion is to fill it, but then they become harder to serve in the school systems. what do you think of this issue? god - its so good to have a place to discuss this...so happy i found this board!
1st grade at 3rd or 4th grade math isn't as scary as it sounds. My 1st grader is doing a virtual academy and started the year with 3rd grade math. It took until halfway through for him to get to something new and slow down a bit. He is now a few units into the 4th grade math and we are definitely taking it slower - as we're finding he has forgotten some of what he learned earlier this year due to lack of practice (multi digit multiplication mainly).
I thought we'd never hit a point where we would slow down but it just naturally happened right about the midway point of 3rd grade math.
He is really enjoying the virtual academy and that he can go at his own pace - which so far means he completed all of LA, Science, and History for 1st grade as well as Math for 3rd grade. LA is still 'too easy' but he is enjoying it for the most part (except the composition parts but that's because he does not like to write!) and he'd do Science every day if I let him but I don't really want a 2nd grade in 4th or 5th grade science so we just read a of science books instead!
