Thanks Grinity!
I guess I could use a K reality check. lol
I like your take on the LOGs. IDing PG is the least ambiguous.
But those other two!!
I should take yours, and Kriston's and everyone else's advice to stop worrying now about what he will be like when it is time for pull outs.
In the near term I will see if I can talk up a kindy mom or two, as well as follow-up on your other suggestions.
I had read the state standards months ago. Mathwise, he does already know most of what the expected
by the end of K. ex. "Students understand and describe simple additions and subtractions: Use concrete objects to determine the answers to addition and subtraction problems (for two numbers that are each less than 10)"
He knows a few of the things from the 1st grade list.
Pretty funny that after all my reading I am still not sure what " a typical 4 year old knows". A visit to a trad. 4 year old classroom is probably the best thing I can do at this point to understand "how advanced is he". His teacher for the last 2 years told me that she knows he is advanced and it is "not just because of Montessori" She didn't use any GT language though. For that and other reasons I have doubts that she has any special insight into how he learns best or what motivates him.
I am looking forward to see what Mewz' next move is for getting her son's school to budge.
