Not really sure how old I was, though I know I could read well before Kindergarden, and have a clear memory of preK (age 4) writing class, where we'd learned that The was "thuh" (don't know how to do schwa) and TH was also "thuh." I remember not seeing the point of adding an extra letter in this case.
I started kindergarden at 5, not to be 6 until April. When they caught me reading the teacher text in the Weekly Reader they started letting me go over to the 1st grade for reading and math; I was in the highest of 4 reading groups (the yellow group) in that room. Note that I didn't stay for writing; it still shows.
Sometime midway through the year they let me be in 1st grade the whole morning but I still had to go home on the Kindergarden bus. My first full day of 1st grade was midway through April, the monday after my birthday.
The next year I went into 2nd grade.
I weirded out my classmates by retreating to the crotch of a tree to read books during recess.
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I started kindergarden at 5, not to be 6 until April. When they caught me reading the teacher text in the Weekly Reader they started letting me go over to the 1st grade for reading and math; I was in the highest of 4 reading groups (the yellow group) in that room. Note that I didn't stay for writing; it still shows.
Sometime midway through the year they let me be in 1st grade the whole morning but I still had to go home on the Kindergarden bus. My first full day of 1st grade was midway through April, the monday after my birthday.
The next year I went into 2nd grade.
I weirded out my classmates by retreating to the crotch of a tree to read books during recess.