Last night was first grade open house for the parents. The kids have been in school for about 3 weeks. Oddly, in my daughters class of 20, only 3 other parents showed up. While the teacher was giving her chapel, I was reading over what they would learn this year. My mind immediately went to dread as I recognized that Ashli knows almost everything on the list. I stuck around to talk to the teacher about the behavior chart (Ashli has been getting yellows instead of greens) and the teacher wanted to talk to me as well. She said not to worry about the yellows as it is a five color system and those are just warnings for things like talking an so forth. She then told me that Ashli is reading at a 3rd grade level. As the school is only K-1 the classroom and the library are not really stocked with books to challenge her. She said she was going to go borrow books from the other school and that Ashli was going to start the Accelerated Reader program immediatly instead of after winter break with everyone else. I was trying to hold back beeming with pride, but I think it is great. They are also going to test her for the gifted program. We are still going to work with her on reading but I think we should concetrate on other subjects to let her advance in those as well.
I don't mean to brag on my child, but yes I do.
