This whole reading thing is clicking like crazy for Travis. He’s now reading short chapter books with only a bit of help from his very patient and supportive sister. For stories this evening, Travis did the reading and Hallie helped out. Mark and I just sat and grinned at each other.
We’ve been wondering how kindergarten is going to go for Travis. Unsolicited, Travis’s teacher pulled me aside last week to say that if she ever saw a child who could skip kindergarten it was Travis. She actually mentioned sending him on to second grade. I think that’s a bit extreme, but I do have a meeting scheduled for this week to talk about how Conn can best meet Travis’s needs. I have mixed feelings about sending him straight to first grade, but I have a hard time seeing how he’ll be challenged in kindergarten.
Travis’s biggest challenge in school is keeping his mouth shut. He’s so delighted by what he knows that he has a very tough time not sharing it, even when it’s not his turn. He also loves explaining (with an interesting mixture of fact and fiction) anything under the sun. His teacher suggested, in a most diplomatic way, that not everyone wants to hear all that detail and that this would be a good time to get that in check. I think it’s time to help Travis get better at reading people’s signals!
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