They are going to do higher level thinking activities with her and a couple other kids in the class. Take ideas they are already doing and just give more project based activities. It is mostly going to come in the form of learning centers. I explained how I thought this wouldn't be enough for her that basically her whole curriculum needed to be modified for her to really be satisfied. They feel we will be very pleased when the next meeting comes around. ( I am trying to be optimistic, but feel a little less optimistic than I did last night b/c the more I think about it the more I pretty much know it will be like giving a person dying of thirst a dixie cup of water) I don't want them to think that my mind set is a grade skip and nothing else. That we aren't willing to even to give this a chance, because I feel they will be less supportive if we poo, poo thier ideas without giving them a chance.
I am going to document everything they do with her...the teacher and I will have a communication log of every activity they do outside of the curricululm and how she did with it. Then when we go in I can show them why this will not work for dd over a full year period. I think they have their hearts in the right place in a way, but I just don't think this is going to be enough for her. She craves learning and when she doesn't get it at school she comes home acting wonky and then we supply it to her. Which I don't have a problem doing, but I hate for her to be in school all day to come home for the real learing to begin. It is too much wasted time and it really frustrates her.
She told us at dinner the other day "mom I'm ready for fourth grade now"
