Yesterday, J had a church teacher come over and talk to him for a Tiger Cub elective. They were just supposed to get to know each other a little bit. She asked him about school, and he told her that he'd skipped a grade. Then he said that one grade wasn't enough.
He got his report card today, and I think he was right!
He is above grade level for reading and math. As in above second grade level. I suppose we shouldn't be surprised about his reading, since he's long ago passed 6th grade books in his pleasure reading. He didn't really test all that high in math, although we suspected that it was really just a lack of exposure. I'm glad to know that he's "catching up" to his potential in that subject.
He is at grade level for just about everything else, meaning social studies, creative writing, science, etc. But it seems like that is probably an exposure thing, too. If I knew what science topic his class was going to study, I could bump him past grade level easily. Gee whiz, wait until they get to immunology! He and Z are absolutely voracious in their learning about microbes and the immune response. It cracks me up to hear a 4 year old chatting to a lady in Costco about the conditions bacteria need to grow. But I suppose they don't really learn much about immunology for several years.
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