I'm glad to hear others have felt this way at some point. And I think the most important info we can come away with is to see what kind of learner she is and what her strengths and weaknesses are when it comes to learning.
@CCN - In comparison to her peers, all I can say for sure is I know she is advanced in reading. She is reading at a 3rd grade level comfortably for leisure at home. She has read Diary of a Wimpy Kid and enjoys the series but I wouldn't really consider that series a true 5th grade level. Her other strength is spelling, she will actually correct our older dd's spelling who will be 9 next month (she has dyslexia). And just this morning she was correcting dh's writing b/c he capitalized certain words in the sentence that she said shouldn't be capitalized. So reading, writing, and spelling are her definite strengths and I would say she is ahead of her peers.
In math, I don't really know b/c in kindergarten last year they did no math. In fact, her entire year last year was primarily play based and the only academic work they did was reading and journaling. This summer at home she is working on a 1st to 2nd grade math workbook with no troubles whatsoever (only b/c our older dd is doing a workbook for the summer to not lose too much over the summer when it comes to academics, so she wants to be just like her big sister). She understands and can do simple multiplication, division, count money, tell time, double digit adding and subtracting, and story problems.
When same age friends come over to play she wants to teach them math, read to them, or have them write stories with her which they have no interest in doing. She has told me that she'd like to skip 1st grade and go to 2nd. I have never mentioned skipping to her b/c it's not something I'm interested in at all, so I find it intriguing that she has this idea in mind.
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