mom2boys, That kid sounds a fair bit like my son. A happy kid who enjoyed the, as he put it, "hustle and bustle of a regular day at school." I helped out and knew he was ahead of other kids, but also saw how happy he was. He was fortunate to have teachers like you who made adjustments in their curriculum to challenge him. He did start a few hour a week pull-out program in 1st grade which he enjoyed. He is 13 and in 7th grade; he was never grade accelerated, but is subject accelerated to High School for math. I do think that there are some kids in some circumstances for whom this will work. You may have found one! But I agree that if you can reinforce how remarkable he is it may help the parents know what to do should he become restless in his classroom somewhere in the future.
