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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We have a joke around here about my middle son.\u00a0 I have probably talked about it before.\u00a0 We call it Blakey World.\u00a0 And it is the place where he lives.<\/p>\n
Everyone always comments about happy he is, always with a smile on his face.\u00a0 And while that is well and good, sometimes it is hard to penetrate into his “world”.\u00a0 He doesn’t listen, and even when you tell him things over and over he will turn around and say, “huh?”\u00a0 We all agree and Blakey World is a happy place, and would be a great place to live.
\nWhen he started school I feared that he would have a few issues, but he has done surprisingly well.\u00a0 In fact last year his 2nd grade teacher told me that she really wanted me to have him tested for the “gifted” class.<\/p>\n
I should back up and say that while I think the gifted class is fine and everyone has their own thoughts about it, I never thought it was right for our family.\u00a0 I chose not to do it with Austin (he excels at Language Arts) so when it was brought up for Blake I blew it off.\u00a0 But she pressed on and told me that she was giving him 3rd grade level work and she felt he needed to be challenged more.\u00a0 Blake’s forte is math.\u00a0 He is the opposite of Austin.\u00a0 I went ahead and had him tested and just got the results back.<\/p>\n
In order to be in the gifted class for math you have to pass two different tests, the actual math part and then the cognitive part.\u00a0 Blake doesn’t do well with cognitive- living in his own world and all.\u00a0 So while he aced the math part, he scored a few points below what he needed for the cognitive. Which made me crack up when I read the letter.\u00a0 And smile, because really I don’t think he needed to have extra work, he can barely remember to do his regular homework.<\/p>\n
And as a perfect example, Austin (who like to criticize his brother for everything) just handed me Blake’s math paper laughing and said, “read number 14, the one he got wrong.”<\/p>\n
It said<\/p>\n
Explain what the equal sign means in this number sentence.<\/p>\n
His answer<\/p>\n
“tells what it eqeus.”<\/p>\n
so not only is that a perfect “Blakey world” answer, stating the obvious- but he spelled “equal” wrong even when it was used in the question and he could have just looked at that and known how to spell it.<\/p>\n
Man I love that kid.<\/p>\n
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We have a joke around here about my middle son.\u00a0 I have probably talked about it before.\u00a0 We call it Blakey World.\u00a0 And it is the place where he lives. Everyone always comments about happy he is, always with a smile on his face.\u00a0 And while that is well and good, sometimes it is hard to penetrate into his “world”.\u00a0 He doesn’t listen, and even when you tell him things over and over he will turn around and say, “huh?”\u00a0 We all agree and Blakey World is a happy place, and would be a great place to live. When he started school I feared that he would have a few issues, but he has done surprisingly well.\u00a0 In fact last year his 2nd grade teacher told me that she really wanted me to have him tested for the “gifted” class. I should back up and say that while I think the gifted class is fine and everyone has their own thoughts about it, I never thought it was right for our family.\u00a0 I chose not to do it with Austin (he excels at Language Arts) so when it was brought up for Blake I blew it off.\u00a0 But she pressed on and told me that she was giving him 3rd grade level work and she felt he needed to be challenged more.\u00a0 Blake’s forte is math.\u00a0 He is the opposite of Austin.\u00a0 I went ahead and had him tested and just got the results back. In order to be in the gifted class for math you have to pass two different tests, the actual math part and then the cognitive part.\u00a0 Blake doesn’t do well with cognitive- living in his own world and all.\u00a0 So while he aced the math part, he scored a few points below what he needed for the cognitive. Which made me crack up when I read the letter.\u00a0 And smile, because really I don’t think he needed to have extra work, he can barely remember to do his regular homework. And as a perfect example, Austin (who like to criticize his brother for everything) just handed me Blake’s math paper laughing and said, “read number 14, the one he got wrong.” It said Explain what the equal sign means in this number sentence. His answer “tells what it eqeus.” so not only is that a perfect “Blakey world” answer, stating the obvious- but he spelled “equal” wrong even when it was used in the question and he could have just looked at that and known how to spell it. Man I love that kid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elisalou"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}