Hi,
What a great question Amanda. I am very curious too to hear what people say who have kids that are now older. What happened with the pace? Were there any slowdowns and when?
DS2.6 seems to have skipped a grade with reading in the last month, he doesn't even read much or ask many questions, we mostly read to him, so I was really surprised yesterday when he read something fairly hard out loud. Looking at the grade levels he's somewhere around 3rd. So I guess my own answer is DS spent 6 months in kindergarten reading and has been going faster after that. Seems like starting around 4th grade there is more conceptual and also cultural knowledge component that may slow him down.
He's been fairly stalled out on math type things the last couple months, and doesn't have the interest level to make it through workbooks. More in a phase of constant pretend play.
Polly
