My older son just finally got into the gifted program out here. I have been asking about it since signing him up for the school last year, but, through one communication gap after another, it was slow going. Anyway, he is just loving it. And the way that they do it, is to replace one of their academic classes with it, weaving that subject into the gifted curriculum. Last year, if you were in the gifted program, that meant you were in gifted social studies. This year, however, that means that you are in gifted English. My other son loves his regular English teacher so much that he didn’t want to switch. He might do it next year, though. He had the gifted teacher for another six-week long class, and he really liked her, too. And she was very happy having him in her class, as well. We went ahead and did the paperwork for him, so he can easily go in next year, if he chooses.

Anyway, Patrick has some cool projects and things coming up in his gifted class. And one of the things that he needed right away was a thumb drive, for taking material back and forth between home and school. Isn’t technology amazing? I just love it. It would be so neat to be in school during this exciting time! I think thumb drives are external hard drives, right? Anyway, it is just neat.

I’ll have to post some more about the gifted class and all they have planned this year - it’s definitely going to be cool!
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