Make sure that everyone at the school is on the same page with letting her skip a grade. We had that happen to us at the beginning of the year. DD's teacher and reading specialist suggested that we skip her to 1st and once they presented it to the principal and 1st grade teacher it went down hill from there. They suggested we try differentiation and cluster groups and half of the time that never happens. They forget to send her up to 1st or the reading specailist is working with the older kids and doesn't have time to help her twice a week (my DD tells me this stuff all the time) I hate to say it but she has fell to the back burner. And to top things off she has been going to 1st grade for reading (suppose to be anyway) since the beginning of the year and next year they just want to keep her in 1st to do reading and not defferentiate with her at all. Hello but hasn't she been doing 1st grade reading this whole past year. Why should she have to do it all over again. So YES...if they are allowing her a grade skip and you have done your research and are in agreement to it....GO FOR IT but definitley be comfortable with it first. You will know!!
