Wow, snowgirl, I have teacher-envy! I wish our Montessori teacher had been like yours. She's a gem!

We were given the standard "must complete task a before moving on to task b" at our school, and DS6 (then 4) just didn't do any language arts stuff for the first half of the year. DH and I finally advocated HARD for him to be allowed to skip the "easy" stuff, but it was such a battle!

*sigh* Pat that teacher on the back for me, would you, please? She's the kind we all want!

Kriston