Update

A few minutes after my previous post, Melody, a sixth grader, came up to me as I was sitting on the couch and said, "are you the math teacher?" She wanted math.  I invited her to join the junior high group but she hesitated so I offered to form a group for her with the fifth and sixth graders.  I asked if we should start next week and she said, "sooner," so we went to the white board in a nearby classroom and started doing exponent problems, at her insistence.