My son is just finishing kindergarten. He was well beyond a first grade curriculum at the start of the year for everything but writing.
We ended up with him spending two hours a day in a first grade class for language arts, and getting a smattering of differentiation for math and science/social studies from the gifted teachers.
He is now going to be grade accelerated into second grade for next year. If we had really been on top of things, we would have requested the acceleration in January, but the second half of the year was fine.
He is also a very intense little guy. His kindergarten teacher had some significant behavior challenges from him, but very few in first grade. Seeing him now versus the beginning of the year, I think skipping kindergarten entirely would have been problematic for him. He needed some support with his adjustment to school that was most appropriately provided in kindergarten.
