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<blockquote data-quote="Mattsmom277" data-source="post: 594481" data-attributes="member: 4264"><p>I was reading post secondary level by fifth or sixth grade. Reading and comprehension were always my strongest suit. Which meant I did well in all subjects because I understood all of the materials easily. Also because I loved reading so much, I would often on my own pick up books from the library on things I was learning in school that fascinated me but that school only taught to a lesser degree. I am a talker, was then and am now. So you can imagine in school when I'd be done work in no time and had nothing to do. Any class work, not just specified reading periods, I'd be done fast. I got so much flak until around 5th grade a great teacher realized myself and another student in my class were both the same, not challenged and bored stiff. Back then there was no gifted programming. This teacher designed what he called "Enrichment Class" just for myself and the other student (who was the cutest boy in the world to my young self and my best friend, we just noticed each other because other kids would tease us for being "smarty pants"). We would leave class each day for a stretch to do things with this teacher. Our most fun school year was a book drive we developed. Ended up sending a entire cargo plane full of books to a school in Madagascar. I loved going to this enriched program. The deal was we could work on things from that program if we completed our work in class before other kids. I went from boredom and hating school to hating getting sick to have to miss a day. </p><p></p><p>*I hope if Aubrey keeps up this way, that it clicks with the school that she needs something more. Being unchallenged is terrible for a kid at school.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mattsmom277, post: 594481, member: 4264"] I was reading post secondary level by fifth or sixth grade. Reading and comprehension were always my strongest suit. Which meant I did well in all subjects because I understood all of the materials easily. Also because I loved reading so much, I would often on my own pick up books from the library on things I was learning in school that fascinated me but that school only taught to a lesser degree. I am a talker, was then and am now. So you can imagine in school when I'd be done work in no time and had nothing to do. Any class work, not just specified reading periods, I'd be done fast. I got so much flak until around 5th grade a great teacher realized myself and another student in my class were both the same, not challenged and bored stiff. Back then there was no gifted programming. This teacher designed what he called "Enrichment Class" just for myself and the other student (who was the cutest boy in the world to my young self and my best friend, we just noticed each other because other kids would tease us for being "smarty pants"). We would leave class each day for a stretch to do things with this teacher. Our most fun school year was a book drive we developed. Ended up sending a entire cargo plane full of books to a school in Madagascar. I loved going to this enriched program. The deal was we could work on things from that program if we completed our work in class before other kids. I went from boredom and hating school to hating getting sick to have to miss a day. *I hope if Aubrey keeps up this way, that it clicks with the school that she needs something more. Being unchallenged is terrible for a kid at school. [/QUOTE]
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