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[quote=Anonymous][quote][quote]Then in 2nd we are doing better but I can tell the teacher is annoyed wiht her disorganization, messy desk, asking too many questions, trying to continue classroom discussions forever and into way more depth than planned and correcting the her. My DD can't understand why it's wrong to correct the teacher if she is factually wrong or not clear on a subject. She says she's just trying to have a conversation with the teacher about the subject. While we explain it's rude and she should write her thoughs down and show it to the teacher later or just tell us about it she doesn't seem to get it and I really can't blame her. She just lives in a world that she craves information as much as she likes sharing it.
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Intelligence is only one aspect of a child's growth and development that we as parents are responsible for supporting. As your child is quite advanced in academics, this could be a good time to focus more on her development of organizational and social skills. One way to help her might be to role-play some of the situations where she seems to be missing other's social cues. Children role-play and pretend all the time, so it will seem to be just a fun game to your daughter, but might be helpful to her in negotiating awkward situations in daily life. 
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Here's another thought about the situation of the wanting to spend more time discussing and conversing with the teacher. Since your daughter likes math, it might make sense to help her figure out the number of minutes spent in the classroom with the teacher each day divided by the number of students in the class. Depending on your specifics, it will come out to about 10 minutes per student. Let's assume that about half of that time is spent in addressing the entire class, so that means that any single child has the potential for about five minutes of individualized attention from the teacher each day. You could help your child to understand the demands on her teacher's time and that if she is spending more than five or so minutes a day with her teacher focusing only on her, she is keeping the teacher from helping other kids who have just as much right to her teacher's time as she does. Some kids respond really well to the idea of fairness, and this might help her to learn about taking turns and being respectful of others.

I agree with the poster above who noted that our job is to guide our children to being good people in adulthood. No one will care how smart our kids are if we haven't helped them to develop good manners and the ability to respect the rights of others.
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