My son was noticed by a GT teacher on a trip to the zoo with other kids from our church when he was four. She was driving the bus. Older elementary aged kids on the bus were spelling out words for my son, trying to find a word he couldn't identify and I don't think he got any of them wrong. One girl asked him if he knew what 9 X 9 was and he somehow knew the answer to that also. He loved the attention.
Most of the kids in my son's musical theater class are gifted. I think I am pretty good at spotting gifted kids too. So far, all the kids in the group that I suspected were gifted turned out to be gifted.
There was a four year old at our Vacation Bible School a few years ago that I thought might be gifted. He wasn't reading yet, but he had advanced vocabulary and asked a lot of questions. I said something to his mom about how smart he was and she just gave me a strange look. In our small town, it is better to be good at sports than smart.
