Just adding my 2 cents on Reggio. And I'll start by qualifying that I am sure each school is different. My twins spent 3 years at a Reggio preschool a few years back (they are now 16 yo). One twin was a fluent reader by 2.5yo, and we found it worked well that the preschool did not have an academic focus. They thrived on the art, music, make believe and play. They did do group projects, and that worked well too, because each kid was allowed to contribute in their own way. (One year their big class project was to write and produce a play. Dd's contribution was to design a program to hand out to the audience. She had seen some examples from the local theater to get ideas. Her program was great and even included some very funny fake ads -- she was still really into dinosaurs then, and one of the ads was for a diamond shop for dinosaurs -- "Giant Jewels.")
