My son has just tried out for Sleeping Beauty, to be a goblin accompanying the wicked witch. When they were first talking about it, they suggested the few boys be small princes, and there was some ok response from the boys. Then the director came up with the goblin idea and the boys are very very excited about that. There are 3 boys who normally take class and another boy who just joined in order to be a goblin. They will get to have silver bat wings and be really really scarey!!
My daughter is also going to *try* to be in it - she is very very young, so we will see how it goes. But she did audition and picked up on about 80% of the steps (not too complex). At any rate it will be insanely cute.
Monday, February 09, 2009
More on the boy
Cogat results, as well as Naglieri results, are in.
My 8 year old took these tests as part of the usual screening of all kids for the gifted program for our school district.
He did very well in a couple of areas: mainly non-verbal; considering he is supposed to be very verbal, and is already in the pre-gifted sort of program they have for language arts, this was sort of odd to me.
Also his quantitative score was very low and I am concerned about that, so I think I am going to look at having some more testing done, possibly look at a learning disorder. There are other things going on too that make me think this, I am not just going based on one set of test scores...Nothing super major, but enough to make a mom wonder.
And I'm not one for wondering about stuff for years and finding out after all is said and done that I should have found out more, earlier.
He has seen the other kids in his program reading Harry Potter books for their book reports, so he is now inspired to do so as well. He seems to be doing ok with it, so far, fingers crossed. I know he enjoys the stories, but I was afraid it would be too-many-words-on-a-page and sort of discourage him. He loves these wimpy kids books, there is a new one out this Jan, and I guess the humour and pictures are most appealing to him.
He was reading the first chapter of the first H.P. book and was just delighted that there was a good joke it in, so I hope that will keep him going on it. (I found them delightful and very funny in parts). I am going to read along with him in another copy of the book so we can have a chat as he goes along.
He has been doing some amazing drawings lately: robots w/steam and firefly power, in great detail. Detailed plans for clubs he wants to start, plans for armour he wants to build (all broken down into various parts, showing elbow joints, rivets, etc.).
And of course there is Yu-Gi-Oh! (!!)
He is really psyched I am taking him to a yugioh tournament next weekend. It is run by a gaming store and the person I spoke with sounded really nice. He said there is *NO* card trading, losing or winning of cards, etc. He said they try to make it a really fun learning atmosphere for the younger fans (under 13 only). Sounded exactly what I was interested in finding. If interested in tournaments, you can find out more on the yugioh website.
My 8 year old took these tests as part of the usual screening of all kids for the gifted program for our school district.
He did very well in a couple of areas: mainly non-verbal; considering he is supposed to be very verbal, and is already in the pre-gifted sort of program they have for language arts, this was sort of odd to me.
Also his quantitative score was very low and I am concerned about that, so I think I am going to look at having some more testing done, possibly look at a learning disorder. There are other things going on too that make me think this, I am not just going based on one set of test scores...Nothing super major, but enough to make a mom wonder.
And I'm not one for wondering about stuff for years and finding out after all is said and done that I should have found out more, earlier.
He has seen the other kids in his program reading Harry Potter books for their book reports, so he is now inspired to do so as well. He seems to be doing ok with it, so far, fingers crossed. I know he enjoys the stories, but I was afraid it would be too-many-words-on-a-page and sort of discourage him. He loves these wimpy kids books, there is a new one out this Jan, and I guess the humour and pictures are most appealing to him.
He was reading the first chapter of the first H.P. book and was just delighted that there was a good joke it in, so I hope that will keep him going on it. (I found them delightful and very funny in parts). I am going to read along with him in another copy of the book so we can have a chat as he goes along.
He has been doing some amazing drawings lately: robots w/steam and firefly power, in great detail. Detailed plans for clubs he wants to start, plans for armour he wants to build (all broken down into various parts, showing elbow joints, rivets, etc.).
And of course there is Yu-Gi-Oh! (!!)
He is really psyched I am taking him to a yugioh tournament next weekend. It is run by a gaming store and the person I spoke with sounded really nice. He said there is *NO* card trading, losing or winning of cards, etc. He said they try to make it a really fun learning atmosphere for the younger fans (under 13 only). Sounded exactly what I was interested in finding. If interested in tournaments, you can find out more on the yugioh website.
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