Anonymous wrote:At the risk of outing myself, I will share a description of a couple of work samples that weren't really work samples with the original packet - DS got in to AAP...
- Scoresheets from imaginary basketball games he plays in our basement - going from what was basically a list of backwards numbers at age 4 to spreadsheets now. The current spreadsheets show the games broken down by quarter (with excel formulas) and NCAA style brackets. Also included a description of how he plays both teams, ref, scorekeeper, and commentator.
- A narrative about his interest in Hamilton - how he listens to the soundtrack on Alexa and follows along in the Hamilton the Revolution book, and has gone from reading just the lyrics to reading the sidenotes that Lin-Manuel Miranda included in the book (and sharing interesting tidbits with us as he reads). I included a couple pictures of us at Hamilton for his birthday and him dressed as Hamilton for Halloween.
Neither of these seem like traditional work samples. I had spoken to the AART in the fall because I knew his NNAT scores wouldn't get him in the pool and wanted to be prepared to parent refer. I said "I'm not sure what to use for work samples! I hear about people submitting lego projects or blogs... all my kid does when he gets home from school is listen to the Hamilton soundtrack and follow along in the book." She said that actually was a great example of higher level thinking and I could turn that into a work sample. Point being, think outside of the box.
He did get into the pool (barely) based on CogAT scores and probably had decent GRBS - I haven't seen the packet. So I have absolutely no way of knowing whether these helped or not.
I'm 100% sure if anyone on this board knows DS in real life, you will know exactly who I am
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