Well,

It's been a crazy 5 years and I've had no one but a very patient husband and parents to talk to. How do I voice my concern for my then three year old to other parents? Well, you can't. And now, at five, and in Kindergarten, I'd hoped all would be well. However, after one month my DD was reduced to tears on a daily basis. She wondered why Kindergarten was so much like preschool, and why no one was learning to read yet, and why was she working on a phonics worksheet and reading leveled readers. Poor child. Since starting preschool two years earlier this child has become increasingly frustrated. Last year in 4 year old preschool I remember her frustration in learning that no one else could read and that they wouldn't be learning that year. Each year she enters school with a zest and love of learning unparalleled by many and soon discovers that this isn't the year she will learn. It's as if she's waiting, and waiting for everyone to catch up. At 3.5 her dad and I discovered that she had taught herself to read. By 4.5 she had read the Magic Treehouse and A to Z mystery series of books and by 5 she was reading Little House on the Prairie.

I remember her passion at 3.5 for learning the US States and how she would pour over the book of state birds and flowers, which was her favorite facts. I remember her telling me at 4 while I was in the garden and she came out to join me that she'd been learning about how mountains are made and found plate techtonics fascinating!

Now at the age of 5 nearly 6, I worry. What will become of my eager to learn, passionate child? What will school become to her.

As an aside, she loves all her friends in school. She's been with them since 3 year old preschool since we are in a small community and will be with the same group of kids all through school.

Well, the WJIII was completed and scores are in on that. Cognitive testing was finished and we are awaiting an IEP. I had sincerely hoped that we'd get further along in school before she began to feel "Sad" (her words) about school.

Thanks for listening!