Thanks for your responses.
[quote=bluemagic]It's hard to say. Will 1st be a lot different than K? My district K is only 1/2 day, and moving to 1st is a big change.
We are also looking at a skip to 2nd grade. The length of the days is the same from k-6. He seems to be fairly well adjusted in school, but I get a lot less feedback from school than I did from daycare. In daycare the teachers said he could be Challenging sometimes, but nothing out of the ordinary, and that he was not the worst behaved in the class. His Kindy teacher also thinks therapy is an overkill. So I feel sometimes like I am caught between therapist highlighting all the things he needs to work on and teachers and friends asking me why we have him in therapy. I want to do the right thing for him, but it is not always clear what that is.
DeeDee, your outline of expectations at various ages is really helpful.
I sometimes wonder how much he gets out of therapy, and how much comes from him aging. His current therapist says she thinks he really needs to have at least another kid in therapy to be worthwhile as he understands all the concepts quickly and can apply them quickly with adults, but he struggles more to apply with his peers. We do have another psychologist we saw for a little while who is a bit further for us to get to, but she is good, so I suppose we could stop the weekly sessions and maybe have less frequent appointments and work on stuff at home between sessions.
I don't think the speech pathologist has much experience with gifted children. I think her experience is more with autism.
