Spelling Check Up

Apparently they don't call spelling tests, spelling tests anymore but instead call them spelling checkups. Maybe they're less intimidating that way, I don't know. But Timmy had his first one this week. He did really well, I think. He got three wrong but 2 were words that weren't on their list for the week. Not sure if they were from weks prior that he hasn't been in this class for or if they were just bonus, can you figure it out thing. Ang then one he got wrong because despite him being able to tell you how it's spelled, he wrote a letter ('p') backwards so it was a ('q') so it was wrong.
He's still really struggling with a few letters in that way. So now I need to do some searching and see if this is still to be expected or if we should be looking into it further.

Not an academic death sentence

Ok so Timmy's only in Kindergarten, but still I am beyond thrilled with how well he's doing in school.  And I just want it to be encouragement to others that the DX of ADHD does not have to mean an academic death sentence.  I know that ADHD doesn't have anything to do with intelligence and I don't think most would argue with that but I DO think many assume that ADHD will equal poor school performance.  Again, I know we have many many years ahead of us and that the demands will get greater each year.  But today Timmy took his very first test during his time in the first grade class.  It was 34 questions where they had to listen to instructions and then fill in a bubble.  He got 7 wrong which did not sound overly impressive to me when he told me, despite how pleased he was with himself saying he did do well.  But I just got an email from the teacher and she said she does think he did "pretty amazing under the circumstances." And that only 6 other FIRST graders got less than 10 wrong with many getting as many as 20 wrong.

To me this sounds like the worst possible situation for a child with ADHD,  but he did great!