I try to volunteer but our school does not encourage it much beyond 1st grade. I am infact one of the "Room parents" for DS's classroom.I wish I could go in more often to see what he does. The only time the teacher needs us is for fundraising or arranging specials(about 4 times a year) like during the Holidays time when the kids made ornanments.
This is what I observed then.They had a small activity during this event - the kids had to sort the several trinkets they got and graph the results. DS took his own sweet time to examine his trinkets and by the time he slowly took out his pencil to start writing down what he was supposed to almost all the other kids were done with their work and it was time to pack up.
I should add that DS knows how to draw Bar graphs. Last week he got back home 2 sheets of unfinished class work. One was a reading sheet and the other was a simple math sheet with word problems for multiplication and divison. He had done 2 of the 10 problems. When I asked why he didnt finish it at school, he answers " Its so easy mom here let me tell you the answers" and proceeded to rattle off the answers. Asked him why he couldnt finish it in school and he said he ran out of time. So its more like he is lacking the motivation to do the work rather than not knowing how to do it. Reading too its the same thing - he got his Lexile level 2 weeks ago and it was 890-1015L which is supposedly above 3rd grade level but he didnt finish his classwork that is at 3rd grade level.
I keep reminding him everyday that his teacher cannot give him challenging work if he cannot finish her usual work.He is a people pleaser so he does respond positively to his teacher when she reminds him to finish his work.
We have an appointment next week for his testing but the more I think about it I have come to realize that just testing him will not help. I need to work harder to get him excited about learning again.I still need to figure out how to do that. Researching forums like these have been very helpful. I really do appreciate all your advice :-).

Last edited by rachsr; 02/13/12 08:44 AM.