Kindergarten Here She Comes

Many of you know that we had Jillian take the acceleration exam to skip kindergarten. She's been reading well for two years, she's 4'1" tall, and everyone who knows her thinks she should already be in school. She took her exam and did an awesome job. There were 4 exams, 50 questions each, and she had 3 days to take them. She finished all 4 in the first 3 hours on the first day. The counselors were so impressed and said based on the pictures she drew alone, she should be in first grade. But... she had to get a 90% in each portion and she got a 98, 96, 94, and 88. Darn that social studies! On the day of the exam, I spoke with a man who was there with his son. The boy had tried to skip a grade when he moved here but he missed one too many social studies questions because they moved from Louisiana and it was a Texas history question. So they were taking the test again because he'd had a way easy year in 1st grade and they wanted him to skip the next year. Her principal said there is another student who did just as well as Jill on the test and got the same results, so that student will be in Jill's advanced kindergarten class too. The principal told me he's placing them both with the teacher over the advanced program and Gifted and Talented, so she'll work with them to really stretch them and make it a positive experience and not boring.

So I guess the social studies get a lot of people! I think they need to change that test! Anyway, it's nice to finally KNOW since registration is TOMORROW! We are so excited to go to registration and meet the teacher night next week. We already bought school supplies and she's ready to go. I've told her the whole time to not be disappointed no matter what and she really doesn't seem to be upset at all, even though she's been saying all summer how excited she is to go to first grade! :)