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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A couple of thoughts:

- APS does gifted referrals for music and art 3rd grade and up, not before, regardless of source of referral.

-  From K/1st  (this varied with the pandemic, but you can check in ParentVUE or with the teacher) they start participating in standardized test every year, and these start in fall.   Several of the kids who are identified early on were automatically referred due to exceptional test scores (NNAT, CogAT).

[b]- If your child is truly gifted, you have observed unusual abilities and know them without having taken notes (give this some thought).[/b]

- Every child is bored sometimes in class, this does not necessarily mean much, especially in K!

If your child is thriving socially, has learned to read, and is doing well, halfway through K, take a deep breath.  You can check whether they have taken a standarized test yet - and discuss your thoughts with the teacher, and your school's gifted resource teacher.  
A lot of kids in APS enter K in an advanced stage, but sometimes it balances out quickly.[/quote]

If you don't have a lot of experience with other kids, you might not know what is an unusual ability and what isn't. I knew that DD was a very earlier speaker, but I had no idea just how brilliant she was in language compared to peers until she got a neuropsych evaluation at age 13. And it doesn't work to compare them to siblings. DD was my first and so was sort of my baseline, and I honestly thought my younger child just wasn't that bright. But based on his CoGat and other test scores he is also gifted, just not *as* gifted as my first. [/quote]

But didn't your DD surprise you how well she used language, what words she chose, how well she comprehended advanced materials, etc. ?  Didn't she score off the charts in assessments?   Didn't her teachers mention anything?

It doesn't really matter whether it is your firstborn past the first few years unless you are living in isolation.
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