Originally Posted by blackcat
My biggest piece of advice is to avoid any academic based preschools.


This would be mine as well.

Also, we didn't have great experiences with skipping ahead in classrooms before pre-k age. There's so much social and emotional stuff going on before 4 years old. I regret allowing DS's preschool to skip him ahead by a year when he was 2.5. My daughter will stay with her same aged peers until 4.

My son was ready for academics at 4 and we did find a great "transitional K" with gifted peers, just by chance, and that year of pre-k may end up being our favorite year of school ever. smile We're only on 1st grade though!