The Girlchick amazes me

We have known that The Girlchick was smart, but I really had no idea how smart she really was. 

She had her testing done back in early April.  I was worried with how she was going to do since the whole standardized testing is new to her and she struggled with the prep they did at school.

Well I should not have been worried.  She nailed it.  She beyond nailed it!  She hit a grand slam with all the bases loaded and completely knocked it 100 yards over the fence!

We got her test scores back.  She was in the 99th percentile for everything except vocabulary.  For that she was ranked in the 92nd percentile.  She is only 6 after all - how much vocab can she actually have?  How they do the ranking is by how many kids took the test around that same time nationally.  So she is ranked pretty high on a national scale.  They even have what they call a grade equivalent score - for most things she was 2.5 and higher, which means that she has understanding and doing work over and above 2nd grade.  Her vocab was only a 1.9.  But her word association was a 3.5 which completely blew me away. 

What I worry about now is if the public school gifted and talented program is going to be enough to keep her engaged and liking school.  I talked to one of the first grade GT teachers at the school that she will attend.  I have to say that I was not too impressed.  Again.  They follow the same curriculum as the regular first graders, but give them more comprehension work.  Getting more into the stories and making sure they understand the full story and can go into details and explain it to someone else.  Or like working with the clock and time - instead of just doing the face of the clock they go into 1/2 hours and 1/4 hours.  Or they have them write full stories.  This is all stuff that she is already doing.  Plus when they test them they test to see what level they are at.  The problem with that is if they test above a full grade higher they can't teach them at that level.  They can only go 1 grade above.  It's a district wide rule. 

What we have decided for the mean time is to put her in public school, let them test her for GT and see how she does.  If it doesn't work then we start looking at private schools.  I never thought I would have to be worried about her being too smart and what the heck to do with her so that she is challenged enough. 

Darn it I knew she was too smart for her own good!