Okay, so DD9 was identified as HG in second grade, at age 7. By that time, we were having major school issues, which have improved greatly in the past two years with appropriate instruction. We have done some subject acceleration, but wish we had done a grade skip EARLY. We aren't doing one now because she would be switching buildings, etc., but one is on the table for next year.
Along comes little sister, who seems SO much more comfortable in her own skin. She also has seemed more developmentally normal for her age. She is 5 and just started K. She was reading a little, sounding out letters, probably 4 months or so before K started. But mainly, she seems so much more social and playful, that I just assumed she was probably not as far out there as big sis.
Well, now I'm beginning to think she is sneaky. On all of her K tests she has been high/average, but not big time advanced. She counts to 64 (on her report card), knows her ABC's, etc., but nothing crazy on her tests. So, on the Kindergarten pre-reading, pre-math screening stuff, she looks pretty average. A few days ago, she told DH that 99+99=198, and went on to explain that 99 is one less than 100, so she figured it out that way... Then last night, she started rattling off some simple multiplication, which we had no idea she understood. She said, "2X3 means two threes, Daddy, so it would be 6, or just like 3+3."
Has anyone had experience with Kindergarteners looking average on the Kindergarten screening stuff (ABC's and 123's) when they are capable of doing more complicated stuff?
We were planning on having her tested at age 7. The psychologist said once one child comes out as high as DD9, we should test siblings. Should we do it sooner? I just wish we had done things differently with our older DD earlier on. She had a very hard second grade year that could have been avoided.
Thanks for your advice-
