[luckystarmom]

My daughter is starting to do this. She's gifted, and I think she is getting bored (in 1st grade).

Her twin sister has severe speech problems. I've always thought it was better for her to be around a lot of kids, but her speech is not improving like I would like it to. In the summer when I was working with her, her speech improved. Her reading went from a level 5 to a level 11 in 3 months. Since school started, her reading has only gone to a level 14.

Both girls are bored with math. They are ready for adding more than 2 numbers adding up to 20. They are ready for carrying (regrouping) and for multiplication and simple division. They still do not know how to tell time. I don't have time to work with them on it because of their homework.

[netmilsmom]

If you can homeschool, do it. I still have to push the six year old along but we have silence when she is doing work and a two minute egg timer to help her along. She is getting quicker all the time because she sees the reward in getting the work done. If she finishes all the papers, they can play or we get to do a cool science experiment (today I put an ice cube in a frying pan and heated it until it disappeared).

There is a really cool time video I picked up at the Library. Both girls learned how to tell time by it and her Kindergarten teacher actually bought the thing after seeing it. Caution, too catchy of tunes, mommy is singing the songs in her sleep. Actually I heard all the "Rock and Learn" tapes are good.

All the best!