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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't want to derail this conversation, but what happens on the other end of the spectrum. My daughter starts kindergarten in the fall. She has been reading Bob books for months now, and gradually moving onto harder books. She can also do basic addition pretty consistently (subtraction less consistently.) I'm sure she could happily sit quiet and learn letter sounds, but do most schools also pull out some kids that are further along? [/quote]

My DD is the same age and sounds similar-ish; maybe not quite as far along reading-wise (reads the BOB books well, but we haven’t gone beyond that yet except to read the occasional sentence or two in another book), but slightly farther ahead math wise (subtracting in the single digits is solid). In her current (barely) T1 PK4, there are a few comparable readers in her class and a few kids comparable at math (with one clearly ahead); one other kid is comparable in both. Yes, she’s at the upper end of the class, but she’s definitely not alone, doesn’t need pullouts and is learning loads... and this is a T1. I assume the cohort would be even bigger at an exclusively UMC school.[/quote]My daughter was similar when she entered kindergarten last year.  She still learned a ton in K.  At the assessment at the beginning of 1st grade in September she passed the third grade reading standard (they start with the k standard and keep testing until the kid misses enough questions).  She also is now able to tell time, make change (e.g., If this costs $0.63 and I give you $1 dollar, what coins do you need to give me back?), and do basic multiplication.  The teachers have been great at differentiating and keeping her brain busy.[/quote]

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