I hope you more experienced mamas can help me put this in perspective
. My DD's school starts the gifted program in 2nd grade, so this is our first year with it.
The way it is at her school is a pull-out program, 3 days a week. She leaves her class for 1 hour for it. Next year, it will be every day, 1 hour.
Here are my reservations:
1) There are only 5 kids in her gifted program class (2 second graders and 3 third graders). She is the only girl. I am afraid she will feel left out. (FTR, she loves being the only girl--she says that means she gets to be the boss
.)
2) I am afraid this may impede her relationships with the kids in her regular class, as she is not there for a big chunk of the morning, which is when they do the relationship-building stuff (in her school, in the morning they play games to practice eye contact, greetings, etc--all things she definitely needs practice in).
3) She also misses a recess during the gifted class. (She still goes to the afternoon recess with the other kids--but that means only 1 recess, not 2).
Does anyone else think these are problems? Is the gifted class really worth missing a recess and the bonding excercises? Is being the only girl weird? So far it's too early to tell if the class is going to be great--they haven't really done anything yet beyond getting-to-know-you exercises.
The way it is at her school is a pull-out program, 3 days a week. She leaves her class for 1 hour for it. Next year, it will be every day, 1 hour.
Here are my reservations:
1) There are only 5 kids in her gifted program class (2 second graders and 3 third graders). She is the only girl. I am afraid she will feel left out. (FTR, she loves being the only girl--she says that means she gets to be the boss
2) I am afraid this may impede her relationships with the kids in her regular class, as she is not there for a big chunk of the morning, which is when they do the relationship-building stuff (in her school, in the morning they play games to practice eye contact, greetings, etc--all things she definitely needs practice in).
3) She also misses a recess during the gifted class. (She still goes to the afternoon recess with the other kids--but that means only 1 recess, not 2).
Does anyone else think these are problems? Is the gifted class really worth missing a recess and the bonding excercises? Is being the only girl weird? So far it's too early to tell if the class is going to be great--they haven't really done anything yet beyond getting-to-know-you exercises.