We are moving our DS6 to a different school in the fall for 1st grade. He will be entering their separate gifted classroom in 2nd grade. We are moving him from Spanish to an English classroom and feel it is better to make the move now for friendships and also because this other school is more open to differentiation and acceleration to prepare him for the 2nd grade class. (They have more experience with HG/PG kids.) Here is the dilemma. How do we tell him and when? He will have an opportunity to visit the school in the next couple of weeks and I am just wondering if anyone else has gone through this and, of so, what worked for your child? My DH and I don't like keeping it from him, but we felt that waiting until close to the end of the school year would be better for him socially. We want to approach it from an academic point by telling him that moving to English will give him more science and language arts opportunities, etc. Thoughts?
