DC likes to write creative stories and I submitted one that she wrote at home.

Didn't submit work samples for my AAP son. Was told by AART that sometimes samples provided from home are discounted because it appears parents might have helped.

OP here. Thanks for all the insight. It seems that providing work samples could go either way.

For work samples we submitted mostly writing and drawings done at home, one sample done at school. Can't think of anything we would have done differently since the only feedback we got was that DS was found eligible. In choosing the samples we did want to give a good representation of DS, to have the selection committee see what we saw at home that made us believe that AAP would be a good fit for DS. That way even if DS had not been found eligible at least we would know that the committee had seen him as much as possible as he was.

With DD, several years ago, the AART had suggested I should parental refer. I met with her, and we talked about work samples. She said, "don't worry about that, we will put a good package together".

We did not submit anything other than a parental questionnaire and a recommendation from her sunday school teacher

correction from previous: didn't submit the whole journal, just a few pages worth, shrunk and fit on 2 pages. Book pages were shrunk and re-formatted to fit page requirements as well.

I must be the outlier. Kid's CoGat and Naglieri were nothing to write home about, but I got a call from the principal asking that I consider submitting a package. I submitted DS's handwritten journal in Spanish (DS is bilingual only because of our nanny, who we've had since DS was 6 mos), and a "book" he'd written in private K.

Correction to the previous: "submitted three my kid brought home from school, and one he did at home".

You should prepare some work samples. I submitted three my kid brought home from school, and one he did at school. The ones from school had the teacher's comments and grading. You should begin to save work samples when they come home from school folders.
I saw the samples our AART included in school package and they were the worst ones my kid had ever done.

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Anonymous wrote:We only submitted one from home. Everything else was submitted from the school when the AART put together the screening file. Wouldn't do anything different.

Did you see what was submitted before it was submitted? Asking since it sounds as though you knew what they submitted was sufficient (so no need to submit that much from home).

I saw the school-provided work samples submitted in the screening file after it was sent on.

We didn't submit work samples from home because we didn't have any. I tend to purge a lot of paper clutter and I had heard they don't really want worksheets anyway. All of the work samples came from the classroom teacher. I saw them after the file went to the central committee. They were more project-based and descriptive. I submitted the parent questionnaire. Our AART has said repeatedly that FCPS may consider the questionnaire optional, but she doesn't.

Anonymous wrote:We only submitted one from home. Everything else was submitted from the school when the AART put together the screening file. Wouldn't do anything different.

Did you see what was submitted before it was submitted? Asking since it sounds as though you knew what they submitted was sufficient (so no need to submit that much from home).

We just filled out parent questionnaire which is optional, no sample from home.

We only submitted one from home. Everything else was submitted from the school when the AART put together the screening file. Wouldn't do anything different.

If your child was accepted into AAP, what work samples, from home or school, did you provide. Would you have done anything different? Thanks in advance.