Hi Cathy
I agree with Dotti, you can add to the program. Our DS6 is in a very good gifted school, and he is happy with it. However they are still doing the basic standards. They did move him to higher math, but it still seems easy to me. Just like the spelling words 8 regular and 4 challanging. He could spell all but 2. It only took a couple of trys to get it. They will test on friday, so we will review once on Thursday. The one thing I did notice is that on math, we need to work on speed. Also word knowledge needs to get better. We just started on Droon and on the Merlin series of the magic tree house. He has never been exposed to a number of the words (exp. Solstice)These have given us opportunities to add to his base. We also just started times attack (Thanks JBdad) he loves it. The pressure of time helps to see that although he can do it, it's not intuitive. I guess what I am saying is that even in a very good gifted school we need to add things at home. We make sure that he does have some challange, and we fight the perfectionism. Hopefully the teacher will help you and add to the program.
