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My younger son too a spelling list and tried to include brownies in each sentence he had to write (second grade words). I asked why he did that and he said because he really wanted brownies.

Wow. I really appreciate everyone's replies. I think the language immersion aspect of school was relatively challenging to my daughter at first, but now she's more or less fluent, and 40% of her day is in English, so I'm guessing that's where some of the unhappiness is coming from. She's probably only one grade ahead in Spanish language arts, and that seems to be pretty well accommodated. In English language arts, she pretty much just reads books, as far as I can tell. I think it's math and science that really are the most frustrating, so perhaps we can focus on more acceleration in those subjects in particular.

She's very much a third grader in every other way, so we're not interested in grade skipping. I'm not sure it would really help anyway, as she's already working above grade level.

Thanks again for the comments.

OMG! Huge is right. Wow.

(Ours is like... 320. We have 16 divisions in total, 10 of which are language immersion, 4 are Montessori, and 2 are regular English).

My son's class is a y1/y2 composite (5 and 6). They have 3 maths groups, 4 reading groups and several spelling groups. I think the top groups are working about a year ahead. Each teacher sets their own timetable (except swimming) and there are about 420 kids. Our teachers teach all subjects and specials themselves (including swimming but the pool use is rostered) and everyone has breaks together. There is, however no gifted programming of any kind. If I wanted him to do something with gifted peers I would have to pay for a private programme and ask the principal to excuse him for the day.

My HG child is only 5 and I have been wondering the same thing.