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[quote=Anonymous]I’d love some advice from 2nd grade parents or from parents of older kids. My kid had some struggles with guessing to read in early K, but we went through phonics at home and he was reading well by the end of the year (not flagged as needing help, and certainly in the top half of that class).

In 1st grade, his math skills went through the roof and over the summer got placed in the higher enrichment class for his grade outside of school. We did math summer camp just to prevent summer slide. He tested in the 99th percentile on whatever test they take at school - state or national?

In 2nd now, it seems like both his reading skills AND his math skills have gone done since school started. At the end of summer, he was able to do simple multiplication/algebraic thinking along with two digit addition and subtraction. Since October he has been making mistakes at adding within 20.  Not many mistakes, but 1 or 2 per set of maybe 20 problems. He read aloud beautifully all summer and last year. Now he is making mistakes in reading and just sounds less fluent.

We had conferences and the teacher says he is doing fine and above grade level. But she doesn’t seem to have any individual, specific info on our kid’s abilities or performance. All info is very general and about the class as a whole.

Would you worry or do anything at home at this point? Is the material getting harder and the cracks are showing? But I don’t think that’s the case, because the math homework he brings home twice a month is a much simpler set of problems than what he was doing 4 months ago. Do you think he’s not getting enough practice or repetition with this teacher? [/quote]

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