RL, the capable Kindergartener

While taking Rachel Lee to help in Kate's class during centers I have been struck with how capable she is at completing the Kindergarten tasks. She cuts, glues colors, and sits very well. Kate's teacher has even commented on how nicely she follows along in a book the class is reading, by staying on the same page and sliding her fingers under the words on the page. This week they were looking at the estimation jar and Mrs. Danko reminded the kids that inside the jar there were items, but the items were less than 20. She then took everyone's estimation, and some kids were saying, "100!" The teacher asked for a lower number, something less that 20, and sometimes she got a different number and sometimes she didn't. When it was RL's turn she said, 14. Turned out that there were 16 items in the jar and Rachel Lee was the closet! Not only did she get a number less than 20, but she was only off by 2 items. Lucky guess or genius? Only time will tell...