BTW...have a first grade girl...:) Not identified as gifted...yet.....So far she is doing fine in school...Our school uses the Fundations curriculum and because she is a VERY VISUAL girl and learned to read grade levels above with very little phonics or understanding of phonics, I thinks this program will be good for her in the long run....to teach her spelling...so, we are not in the same boat with our first grader...but we are unhappy with school for our 4th grader and looked into these schools as options. In the end, we decided to leave her be...for now....good luck...