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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1. encourage him to express his idea by drawing.  Work sample is important, either from the teacher or the parents.  If he's good at writing, great, but drawing is easier  to express his idea, esp. the complicated ones that get her into AAP.  I've seen girls draw intricate decoration patterns around her writing, boys draw the video game they are designing, etc.

2.  test prep.  There is a march test for 1st grade NNAT.  I joined testingmom.com around Xmas in my son's first grade, $100 lifetime membership (it was Xmas sales down from $150).  Both NNAT and CoGat are computer based test so I just let my son to do testing mom's NNAT test on the desktop or ipad for two months, mostly weekends, around 40 questions per session, all together or broken up into 2 or 4 sittings.  He got it right or get it wrong, we talk about the wrong ones. That's pretty much it.  The test questions tends to be more difficult than the real test, so don't let that scare you.

I heard from others that fee based tutoring also uses testing mom.  I mean, there isn't much to "prep" anyway.  The kid either get it or not.

3.  There are four iReady tests in first grade, that will give you a sense of where your kid is.  My son was 95% and up without me doing anything, so I didn't bother with iReady "prep"ing on testingmom, but I heard some crazy parents do that. [/quote]

LOL it is not crazy to prep for the NNAT in first grade but it is crazy to prep for the iReady?

DS has been in the 99th percentile on every iready and didn’t need test prep to be in the 99th percentile in the NNAT or the CoGAT.

What is crazy is the amount of angst on that parents put themselves through for a few years to get into AAP. It just isn’t that special. If you are that worried about the “cohort” enter the lottery for one of the language immersion programs that starts in K or 1rst grade. The classes end up looking a lot like AAP classes, fewer kids who need a ton of time from the teacher, and most of the kids end up in Advanced Math. Then you can focus on school and stop trying to figure out the magical formula for AAP and worrying about changing school in third grade to move to the Center. Bonus: The kids are challenged with learning a new language and develop a decent base that will let them take a foreign language for high school credit for 2 years in MS instead of one.

But I guess the LI programs don’t give your kid the label that you are after.[/quote]

+1 I was thinking the same. She labels as crazy THOSE moms who prep for the iReady--not her, she just had her kid do TestingMom NNAT prep every weekend for two months.

You might be right that it has to do with the label.

I don't know anything about the language immersion programs. Is there a complete list somewhere? [/quote]

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