Her K teacher is great, and gives her extension stuff. She does well, but struggles a bit with word problems (she says she gets caught up in the story and wonders what happens next :P but I think it's not as strong for her overall). Teacher assessed her as end of first/beginning of second at the beginning of the year, but admitted that was as far as she was allowed to test. She is currently reading A Midsummer Night's Dream (with help with the language) and The Return of the King, as well as Many Waters (Wrinkle in Time series). Also, a lot of picture books and short chapter books. Kid is a voracious reader
But quit reading the first semester because she thought her teacher thought she was a poor reader, and "Kids in Kindergarten don't read books".
Math, she can do fractions and can multiply single digits but not multidigits on paper (haven't tried multidigits, TBH; she's been multiplying numbers since age 3, so I probably could). She does multidigit long division after a five minute discussion a bit ago. She can add and subtract multidigit numbers in her head, but wants to use her fingers...she's VERY unsure of herself in math. If I tell her to sit on her hands, she gets the right answers anyway
Before K started, she placed out of Dreambox (through grade 3) and she does 3rd and 4th grade workbooks at home for fun (by herself; I have a toddler and just send her to do her homework and find her doing these instead).
She is not shy, but she needs time to assess situations and will refuse to talk to people who don't stack up. She's...for lack of a better word...weird. Very, very out of the box, prone to non sequiturs, etc. I do not suspect an LD of any kind. Anxiety, quite probably...she has a number of self-confidence and "am I doing this right?" issues. She's been known to completely hide herself because she doesn't like to be different.
