4th grade completely bored in class

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Anonymous wrote:You could do Russian School of Math and she could bring her homework to school to finish.

Russian Math is incredible. Highly recommend!

AoPS/Beats Academy is better, IMO

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Anonymous wrote:ELA should be more than just getting to a Lexile level. They aren’t doing writing assignments or identifying themes etc in stories? Ask the teacher if she can hold your kid to a higher standard, have them write longer assignments, do some outside research on a topic, etc.

+1 This. Have you talked your kid's teacher OP? My kid was a very advanced reader as a 4th/5th grader, and the teacher just gave him some books that are common on the middle school curriculum and told him to read them and write about them. Even if your teacher doesn't want to do that, you can pick out some texts from higher level reading lists and just send them with your kid if the teacher is ok with that.

Yes we talked with our teacher. They said sending in books to read is fine. But we weee hoping for some work project based work or writing assignments. We can’t home school. I can’t believe we are the only student in this class cohort of 150 students at this level — those kids should be addressed with appropriate assignments to that group. We aren’t looking for 1-on-1 instruction but any level appropriate guidance.

I understand, but that’s not the job of the teacher or the school. I know it’s not what you wanna hear but it’s not their job to supply extra work/projects. Having your child working on a project with everyone else is doing math worksheets will be more disruptive than you think. Your best bets are probably with a book, a writing assignment you give, or a workbook from home.

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Schools nationwide focus on bringing up their bottom performers. The FCPS AAP might be better than FCPS GenEd, but even AAP is not really focused on top performers. AAP is focused on getting away from the kids who disrupt class.

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Anonymous wrote:Reminds me of grade school just before they had my IQ tested.

Looking back, I don't think the gifted program was that important. Like we barely did anything. It was more for the teachers, so they didn't have this loose wheel sitting in the class. Even in high school the gifted program was kind of lame, I just did homework there, study hall would have been fine, I would have read more books. I don't think any of the other gifted kids took that class. Maybe we played with computers some. There were some nice, gifted kids' outings but those were after hours.

Those tests are not IQ tests and the program is made up of the students who are the best students, the students aren’t gifted, they should lose that title.

I'm pretty sure I had an IQ test, with an individual assessor.

What year and state?

Dp. How could that possibly matter for this thread?

The PP just wants to argue irrelevant areas. The point was the kid will be fine sitting in class reading a book, but the teachers won't like the loose screw.

I didn’t start this irrelevant topic the other person did. A lot of parents think the schools test every students IQ but most don’t , typically they use OLSAT or similar.

If it was by IQ they wouldn’t have enough 130 IQs to fill a classroom. With only 2% of students testing 130 and you have a total of 100 1st graders and you test them you would have 2 students who qualify.

Parents shouldn’t worry about kids having a 130 IQ

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Anonymous wrote:Reminds me of grade school just before they had my IQ tested.

Looking back, I don't think the gifted program was that important. Like we barely did anything. It was more for the teachers, so they didn't have this loose wheel sitting in the class. Even in high school the gifted program was kind of lame, I just did homework there, study hall would have been fine, I would have read more books. I don't think any of the other gifted kids took that class. Maybe we played with computers some. There were some nice, gifted kids' outings but those were after hours.

Those tests are not IQ tests and the program is made up of the students who are the best students, the students aren’t gifted, they should lose that title.

I'm pretty sure I had an IQ test, with an individual assessor.

What year and state?

Dp. How could that possibly matter for this thread?

The PP just wants to argue irrelevant areas. The point was the kid will be fine sitting in class reading a book, but the teachers won't like the loose screw.

I didn’t start this irrelevant topic the other person did. A lot of parents think the schools test every students IQ but most don’t , typically they use OLSAT or similar.

If it was by IQ they wouldn’t have enough 130 IQs to fill a classroom. With only 2% of students testing 130 and you have a total of 100 1st graders and you test them you would have 2 students who qualify.

Parents shouldn’t worry about kids having a 130 IQ

FCPS skews much higher IQ than normal. The average IQ of parents is likely 120+ and the apples don't fall far from the tree.

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Anonymous wrote:Reminds me of grade school just before they had my IQ tested.

Looking back, I don't think the gifted program was that important. Like we barely did anything. It was more for the teachers, so they didn't have this loose wheel sitting in the class. Even in high school the gifted program was kind of lame, I just did homework there, study hall would have been fine, I would have read more books. I don't think any of the other gifted kids took that class. Maybe we played with computers some. There were some nice, gifted kids' outings but those were after hours.

Those tests are not IQ tests and the program is made up of the students who are the best students, the students aren’t gifted, they should lose that title.

I'm pretty sure I had an IQ test, with an individual assessor.

What year and state?

Dp. How could that possibly matter for this thread?

The PP just wants to argue irrelevant areas. The point was the kid will be fine sitting in class reading a book, but the teachers won't like the loose screw.

I didn’t start this irrelevant topic the other person did. A lot of parents think the schools test every students IQ but most don’t , typically they use OLSAT or similar.

If it was by IQ they wouldn’t have enough 130 IQs to fill a classroom. With only 2% of students testing 130 and you have a total of 100 1st graders and you test them you would have 2 students who qualify.

Parents shouldn’t worry about kids having a 130 IQ

FCPS skews much higher IQ than normal. The average IQ of parents is likely 120+ and the apples don't fall far from the tree.

Massachusetts has the highest performing public schools in the country. The top performing schools don’t have gifted programs. Some towns develop programs that work best with their students. They know their students and their needs which are different in every school. Magnet schools that specialize in math and sciences take an exam to get in. Cities have the most magnet schools by 7th grade for obvious reasons.

The only students who take IQ tests are children who possibly have a learning disability. Yet

The Northeast disproportionately sends the most students to Ivy League and top schools, Massachusetts and New York especially. Depending on an IQ test misses a lot of talented kids and puts in kids who will struggle.

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Sorry OP, school is boring for advanced kids.

Can you come up with some sort of passion project at home she can work on at school? Learning to code to build a website, creating a business plan, designing a little free library, writing her own novel? It's not the teacher's job to do it (the purpose of public school is to teach the basics, your kid already knows those), so if you want more it's got to come from home.

My own bored child spent his free time in 5th grade on duolingo teaching himself mandarin so he could read the instructions on his chinese import toys.