Just two small thoughts:
1. If he takes the MAP test, make sure it's the 3rd grade version. The 2nd grade one does not allow self-pacing - the questions are given verbally through headphones - and it is excruciatingly slow.
I had no idea! I'll make sure to ask about this. Might this have an affect on how far they can advance through the test, or is the sky still the limit if you can get past the slow pace?
2. Why not ask for subject acceleration to 2nd grade math right now? Maybe just once or twice a week and see how it goes? (I know this would never fly in my kid's school, but I have higher hopes for yours.
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I actually thought about this, since there is a 2nd grade classroom within the 1st grade pod and they seem to have their math groups when I am there helping. I guess I chickened out. I don't know why I'm so much more nervous asking for acceleration for my DS than I was for my DD!
Another thought I had was that if we just waited for him to take the MAP test in the fall with his classmates (and therefore not ask for anything special), he would proabaly be even farther ahead in math given that he'd have all summer to learn on his own. The advantage of this is it might be clearer to them that his needs are different than average. The disadvantage would be that we wouldn't be able to start any differentiation until into the fall.
I guess I'm a bit nervous, too, that he wouldn't do as well as I think he would, and that we would be "those" parents. I guess then, though, we'd know that he was good where he was.
