Amy,
I'm sorry I didn't see your updated post about the meeting. As I said we had very similar issues with my dd but it was really a teacher issue not a school or kid issue. My dd is very happy now in 2nd grade.
Inky,
Same to you as well. Some of the things we tried with my dd were fun enriching activities. She was resistant to any extra work and we finally had to just back off or risk damaging her love of learning. We did science projects, art museum activities and I eventually founda series of books she absolutely loves. We also bought some computer games. I recommend Fritz and Chester learn to play chess,Brain Games - word puzzles and ISpy games.
It breaks my heart to hear so many similar stories to ours. 1st grade was so awful for us.
