Thanks, everyone. At the moment, I've moved into acceptance mode. The public school said they never allow early entry for K, and she just turned four in May so she is nowhere near their cut off date of 5 by Sept. and the head of the private pre-K we are attending says the new teacher is fabulous and they will be doing plenty of "fun" things this year and I am just going to let it be. My concerns are that she might begin to feel weird for talking and thinking and performing differently and / or learn to hide who she truly is more and more. Both of these things are already happening. We will continue to find things to do with libraries and other educational activities, perhaps with some home schooling families. I've heard first grade is more miserable for most gifted kids than a play based pre-K and K (both will only be a few hours a day) so maybe she will just skip first.
