Maybe my child is a Genius?

Maybe not, but I wouldn't be surprised if he's close. Home schooling him was definitely the right choice. Yeah, I need to brag a little...

First, as for his progress in Kindergarten, he has nearly completed both Phonics and Social Studies, has over 50% of his math course completed and has made solid progress in every other area.

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Of course, as he's doing all of the above, he also took an assessment designed to compare Kindergarten students in the K12 organization to determine where each is at, developmentally, relative to one another. This test focused on counting, quantities, and numbers in general. Dalton measured “Well Above Average” in each category, the chart making it appear that he may, in fact, by the highest-scored student in two of the four (although I cannot prove that exactly, I feels good to say it anyway).

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Also, as a result of his being enrolled as “full day” Kindergarten, he has Social Studies and History classes that would otherwise not be presented to him at his age. The Social Studies class was intended, as far as I can tell, to be a once-weekly class, but Dalton has done at least two classes weekly, sometimes three. The lessons have focused on things such as the Pledge of Allegiance, the symbols of the United States (such as flags), National Holidays, and basic cultural diversity. These have all been areas of familiarity for Dalton, and each lesson has taken about 20 minutes as opposed to the 45 minutes the school expected them to take.

The History class has so-far focused on defining certain constructs such as the Cardinal Directions, the difference between continents and countries, and is taking him on an imaginary journey to each continent and through various countries on each. In this class, he has studied Australia and Europe, and is starting the Asia unit this week.

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In Europe, he “visited” eight different countries, learning about certain landmarks such as the Eifel Tower and Big Ben, and has completed various little art projects and read stories relevant to the culture of each.

So anyway, I simply wanted to display my son's achievements a little. I don't know for sure, but I doubt there are all that many 5 year old's running around talking about Italy or The Star Spangled Banner, and his test scores are clearly above what a regular public school would expect of him. I'm not sure how much of this is the result of decent parenting or just because he's simply freaking smart as hell... but we're going to keep doing what we're doing because it seems to work.