what did your AAP kids do in the summer when they were younger?

[Anonymous]

rest assured, the majority of AAP students have an objective intelligence less than 2 standard deviations above the norm (e.g., 130). 17 % of FCPS 3rd graders will be in AAP next year (based on past numbers), and only 5% of the global population is above 130.

[Anonymous]

Who says only 5% of the global population is above 130? Where is it from and how old is it? And really who cares about comparing our kids to others around the world who may not even attend school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My son went to various sport camps last summer - swimming, tennis, basketball/football, soccer, fending, ice skating. He was not interested in academics back then so we focused on his physical development and attention. This summer, we have been trying to protect his 30 min reading time each day after the sports camps. So far, he actually reads more than 30 min each day because he wants to read. We bought about 30 books when the summer starts and I guess he will keep reading until he finishes all those books.
For math, I plan to teach him multiplication table and simple division during the last two weeks of August. I read from here that they need those skills in 3rd grade. His 2nd grade teacher also asked parents to work on telling time since they did not have enough time to cover this topic last school year.

As many other parents here, we are a little bit nervous about AAP because we don't know what to expect. Almost all kids have IQs above 130 and some are extremely bright, while my son has an IQ only at the 130 mark. IQ wise, he will be one of the lowest kids. So theoretically, we should focus more on academic development. However, we also feel that physical development somehow is more important for boys than academics. So we are trying to balance. Now his schedule is 8 hours sports and 1 hour reading each day. We plan to make it 7 hour sports and 2 hour academic in August.
Please share if there are certain skills they must know before the start of 3rd grade. Thanks

No need to worry about this at all. DC got CogAT 128, sailed in and has, you guessed it, thrived. But really, up until about 6th when the math gets a lttle harder, I don't think IQ. per se, matters that much. There really is nothing to worry about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Please share if there are certain skills they must know before the start of 3rd grade. Thanks

http://www.kalimunro.com/learned_in_kindergarten.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Please share if there are certain skills they must know before the start of 3rd grade. Thanks

http://www.kalimunro.com/learned_in_kindergarten.html

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: .... As many other parents here, we are a little bit nervous about AAP because we don't know what to expect. Almost all kids have IQs above 130 and some are extremely bright, while my son has an IQ only at the 130 mark. IQ wise, he will be one of the lowest kids. ....

There really isn't a way to know this since many kids get in without an IQ test. The ones who got one, usually did so, because parent wished to appeal their kid's initial rejection. My DC got in first round withour resort to all that testing nonsense - and I most others did as well. So don't assume "all kids [in AAP] have IQs above 130."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My son went to various sport camps last summer - swimming, tennis, basketball/football, soccer, fending, ice skating. He was not interested in academics back then so we focused on his physical development and attention. This summer, we have been trying to protect his 30 min reading time each day after the sports camps. So far, he actually reads more than 30 min each day because he wants to read. We bought about 30 books when the summer starts and I guess he will keep reading until he finishes all those books.
For math, I plan to teach him multiplication table and simple division during the last two weeks of August. I read from here that they need those skills in 3rd grade. His 2nd grade teacher also asked parents to work on telling time since they did not have enough time to cover this topic last school year.

As many other parents here, we are a little bit nervous about AAP because we don't know what to expect. Almost all kids have IQs above 130 and some are extremely bright, while my son has an IQ only at the 130 mark. IQ wise, he will be one of the lowest kids. So theoretically, we should focus more on academic development. However, we also feel that physical development somehow is more important for boys than academics. So we are trying to balance. Now his schedule is 8 hours sports and 1 hour reading each day. We plan to make it 7 hour sports and 2 hour academic in August.Please share if there are certain skills they must know before the start of 3rd grade. Thanks

Why does an 8 year old need a "schedule" in the summer? I'll bet he can barely wait for the multiplication and division you'll teach him in August. My AAP son would have resisted such a regimen. When will you teach him how to figure out what to do in his down time?

[Anonymous]

Not the OP. But we have a schedule for our 8 year old. The camp is from 9-5, so the evening is for reading, writing, drawing, math or music. DC is allowed to pick but reading time of 30 min is required.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who says only 5% of the global population is above 130? Where is it from and how old is it? And really who cares about comparing our kids to others around the world who may not even attend school.

It is a function of definitions. 130 is, by definition, two standard deviations above norm, which is 95%. It is the definition of the terms. DipSh**.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not the OP. But we have a schedule for our 8 year old. The camp is from 9-5, so the evening is for reading, writing, drawing, math or music. DC is allowed to pick but reading time of 30 min is required.

And again, when is the down time or play time scheduled? Are they allowed to pick that?

[Anonymous]

Basically almost all are playtime. They plan at the camp, after dinner, and the entire weekends.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who says only 5% of the global population is above 130? Where is it from and how old is it? And really who cares about comparing our kids to others around the world who may not even attend school.

It is a function of definitions. 130 is, by definition, two standard deviations above norm, which is 95%. It is the definition of the terms. DipSh**.

In the normal distribution, 2 standard deviation above the mean equals 97.5 percentile (lower 50% + 47.5%). So only about 2.5% of our population has an IQ above 130.

[Anonymous]

You are right...my bad. I was thinking within 2 std is 95%, but I forgot that some will be low.