Commiserating. I have a "happy, cooperative and pleasant" K-er who is mastering appearing like a typical student (despite doing most of this work 2 or more years ago). The school thinks I'm crazy to believe my ds is ahead. On a good note, we will be starting the school's AR program (where he can read at whatever level he wishes). Advanced math in K is tricky from what I hear. We just started "Xtramath" at home per teacher's suggestion. It's not the fun "conceptual" math ds loves, but at least it's giving him necessary tools. Essentially, it's a program to help kids memorize basic math facts. Ds can do advanced math, but has to recalculate simple addition /subtraction each time (beyond SUPER BASIC math) because he's never commited anything to
memory. It's free to public, just google "xtramath".
I don't think we'll succeed in getting too much challenge in class, but at least we have a direction now.
GL!
