I know that a lot of school use gaps as a reason for not doing skips which does make me feel silly about worrying over them when our school is not.
The school did all kinds of end of year tests last year and we know that the skip is appropriate, if not enough. He scored high 90% on 2nd grade around 85% on the 3rd grade test. He spent the second half of last year going to 2nd grade for reading and scored in the 90's on all the weekly tests. He also went to 5th grade for math, which he will be doing again this year (with the ability to test out of sections and move onto 6th grade material - nobody could stomach sending a six year old to the middle school for math everyday).
I am hoping that he will find something to struggle with, and it does seem to be missing definitions (love that phrase) but for some reason him not knowing plural through me for a loop. He also has age appropriate hand writing, so that may be a struggle.
LOL on learning tally marks from Doctor Who... had to explain it to DS because I actually laughed out loud. DS loves competition so he has learned tally marks to keep tract of coin flips, dice rolls, and how many green days he got last year.
