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Jenn's post is here.
I hope it goes well - she has a tendency to freeze up when she thinks things aren't totally easy. Also, she likes to play "the silly game" - it's the only way to get her to participate at all sometimes, but it can be a little frustrating!
Well, she did well on the practice test, and was surprised at the end to realize that it was both fun and really easy (at first, she refused to even look at the questions, and would pick an answer at random and *then* try to figure out why it was right, rather than picking the right one to start), so this should go well. I tell you, it's very hard to encourage a child to do well, and to emphasize that she must not be silly while simultaneously trying to convince her that it's really unimportant and not a big deal at all. Party line around here has been "You're going to have a lot of fun this weekend, right?" and similar. One can only hope the results are accurate, anyway.
The only thing about this test is she's missing her gymnastics class. From how Jenn has described it, it's not a competitive, olympic-style gymnastics class, more like a circus style gymnastics class. Ana refuses to tell me what she does there (on the grounds that it's her class, not mine!), but she's clearly having a lot of fun. Apparently, her teacher thinks she's really strong (well, we knew that) and pretty gifted in that way (we knew that too) and that Jenn should look into private lessons when she gets older, though her talent will keep, of course.
Edit: Apparently, she came out from the test all bouncy and bubbly, which is a good sign, and she said that the questions were easy, which is a *really* good sign. She was a little disappointed that she missed gymnastics, and a little disappointed that she'd been told by the 'teacher' that she'd play some games, but that's not what happened, it didn't seem like games to her.
I hope it goes well - she has a tendency to freeze up when she thinks things aren't totally easy. Also, she likes to play "the silly game" - it's the only way to get her to participate at all sometimes, but it can be a little frustrating!
Well, she did well on the practice test, and was surprised at the end to realize that it was both fun and really easy (at first, she refused to even look at the questions, and would pick an answer at random and *then* try to figure out why it was right, rather than picking the right one to start), so this should go well. I tell you, it's very hard to encourage a child to do well, and to emphasize that she must not be silly while simultaneously trying to convince her that it's really unimportant and not a big deal at all. Party line around here has been "You're going to have a lot of fun this weekend, right?" and similar. One can only hope the results are accurate, anyway.
The only thing about this test is she's missing her gymnastics class. From how Jenn has described it, it's not a competitive, olympic-style gymnastics class, more like a circus style gymnastics class. Ana refuses to tell me what she does there (on the grounds that it's her class, not mine!), but she's clearly having a lot of fun. Apparently, her teacher thinks she's really strong (well, we knew that) and pretty gifted in that way (we knew that too) and that Jenn should look into private lessons when she gets older, though her talent will keep, of course.
Edit: Apparently, she came out from the test all bouncy and bubbly, which is a good sign, and she said that the questions were easy, which is a *really* good sign. She was a little disappointed that she missed gymnastics, and a little disappointed that she'd been told by the 'teacher' that she'd play some games, but that's not what happened, it didn't seem like games to her.
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Date: 2008-02-06 02:59 am (UTC)That's a wonderful question, though! Night, for one thing, does follow the rules - it follows the special rules for gh, which say that gh before t is (usually? I can't think of a counterexample) silent. (Knowing that it's a special rule of its own will make it easier to sound out words like might, sight, light, ought, bought, taught, fight....) And then you can say that words used to be said differently. Night used to have a "hard h" in it, and that g was stuck in so everybody knew that it wasn't the same as a normal h. (I just stole all this from the Online Etymology Dictionary entry on the subject.)
Buuuuut... although historical linguistics is fascinating, it might confuse her. You might just stick to the "special rules" bit, which is helpful to her right now.
We've got gifted kindergarten, and I think pre-k here. But, you know, it's not just about reading and math.
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Date: 2008-02-06 03:14 am (UTC)My cousin's daughter (who is 10 I think) was/is a lot like Maylie... if it was too hard, she didn't want to do it but if she got the hang of it then she wanted to do it all the time. I think she said she went from not reading to being the best reader in the class, and voraciously reading everything she could get her hands on. lol
But anyway, here is a Maylie joke:
Why does a grasshopper hop in the grass?
Because it's a GRASS HOPPER!
I told her my favorite joke when I was a kid:
What is gray and the size of an elephant but it's not an elephant?
An elephant's shadow!!
She didn't get it. haha.
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Date: 2008-02-06 03:17 am (UTC)All I hear around here is "Knock knock. Say who's there! Noah! Say Noah-who! NOAH DIDN'T FEEL A RAINDROP *splashsplashsplash*"
My participation is not actually crucial in this, I get soaked no matter what, unless I hand out time-outs all around and confiscate all liquid for the entire day (which seems a little harsh).