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[quote=Anonymous]My gifted kids both had new Kindergarten teachers and one had a new teacher for 1st and the other a new teacher for 4th. 
I will be blunt. Your kids are in school in k-2nd to learn social skills and routines, how to behave in a group setting, how to work in a team with people they don’t choose, and how to be flexible and adjust to situations that are not tailored for them and them alone. Those are all great skills you can’t fully teach at home.

Get some books and focus on learning at home if there are specific skills you are worried about. But also it’s 1st grade. Read to and with your kid and foster a love of reading. Look up Odyssey of the Mind spontaneous problems and foster creative thinking. Look at your child’s school work and talk to them about it. Don’t tell them it’s too easy or suggest they might be bored at school. I encourage my kids to listen and learn different ways to do the same thing - and to show their work even when they can do it in their heads.

There is so much time to burn your kid out and build the memories they will talk about it therapy as adults. Learning and school should be fun. Stress less and remember they are so little - so much of what they are learning at this age can’t be measured on a Kuman worksheet. [/quote]

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