This year we tried skipping Athena ahead a grade so she could enter a 2nd grade class in an Advanced Learning Program at a magnet school in the area. Her teacher wasn't thrilled about the idea. She told me that they tested Athena and that she just didn't have the necessary vocabulary. Right. Two days ago she correctly used the word "etched" while explaining to Dimitri that scientists can't read your thoughts just by looking at your brain. And yesterday while eating hummus I had blended up for dinner she held up a whole chickpea and said,
"Look who emerged from the blender unscathed!"
No, this 6-year-old's vocabulary is definitely not there. ;)
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