What grade IS she in, anyway?

We started The Kid in "kindergarten" around her 4th birthday. It made total sense: many of her friends were starting Kindy that school year, she was already working at levels higher than that in most things, and she was quite adamant that she was supposed to be starting, too. Since then, we've promoted her one grade level on each birthday. Therefore, her birthday this Sunday marks the end of second grade and beginning of third.

But...

We're moving to California this summer. Land of public charter schools. With enrichment classes that she can take with other kids! She is so excited about this idea. At this point, she has no desire to go to "regular school", but seeing the same group of kids every week for art or music or a book club or whatever it is that gets offered, while being able to continue homeschooling? Absolutely!

By public school cutoffs, she would just be starting second grade this fall. Neither "second grade" nor "third grade" nor any other grade describes where she's at academically. Her physical writing ability is low, her math ability is high, and her language ability is very high. Socially, she's a bit all over the place as well.

So, for now, she's 7. Or, she will be tomorrow, anyway! We'll enroll her as a second grader this fall. On the blog, I think I'll just start referring to her age.

Unfinished Stuff and a New Adventure

Wow, I really haven't been posting.

Tomorrow, The Kid and I are off on a new adventure - four weeks of Spanish school and homestay in Antigua, Guatemala, followed by a week of vacation in Roatan. Should be fun!

When we return, we will have a "class" that I'm tentatively titling Unfinished Stuff. We want to wrap up some of the piles of projects that we (or she) have started and then left languishing. She has several large art projects to finish. We started working through a chemistry set and then stopped. The list goes on and on and on. We filled a sheet of notebook paper listing it all out. So, yeah. Unfinished Stuff.