This is all helpful info to me, as DS6 is skipping 1st this year, but also is supposed to be getting 3rd grade math and reading. We said we'd work on math facts with DS (he doesn't have them down pat) and also with handwriting. Well, every time we tried to get DS to do anything was a huge failure this summer. DS won't do work for us, and I suppose we just weren't tough enough. We've still got 2 weeks to get it all in though....
I'm expecting a bit of frustration with writing and slowness the first couple of months, at least.
