Mika the smarty pants

We had an amazing talk with Mika's teacher yesterday. She is far beyond what we thought in reading and in the other subjects in school. They teacher said that Mika "blew her out of the water" when they did more testing with her. Then she showed us a graph and the were she should be at her age and their are 28 reading levels in the Oregon school system K-12 and Mika was on 16, most first graders are on 2-3 at this point in the school year! Then she showed us some math problems that Mika was making up in class with Ladybugs and their legs and was multiplying them and such on her own! Trent was just beaming with her abilities in Math. We discussed ways with the teacher to keep her challenged in class as well as her having extra homework to keep her learning process up to speed. We are keeping her in first grade because she is happy and loves her friends and we don't want to disturb that. We are just so proud of her! Trent and I really enjoyed talking with her teacher and having her tell us what an exceptionally gifted child she is in academics. We thought she was smart and doing well but she is the first and we weren't sure what was normal and expected at that age! So that is my little brag piece about Mika, again we are just so proud of her.