Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Learning Environments Social Emotion or Academic Challenge?

We think about both the social aspect and academic needs of our kids. Preschool leaned more towards social. My dd went to a montessori preschool, ds went to a church preschool and my youngest will start at the church preschool this fall. During the preschool years we feel it is important that they learn how to play with friends, work out differences, and have teacher's that encourage them. When they reach school age, then we look to make sure there academic needs are being met as well as the above social needs.

We were lucky in our middle son's case that he had a teacher that saw how much he enjoyed the academics side of things. So she sent "homework" home for her students and had more structured learning activities available. I truly feel that the teacher is the most important aspect to my kid's school.