My second-grade daughter easily tested into our school district's gifted program (one of only three students in her grade at school to do so). She performs well in school and does exhibit some characteristics of gifted kids, such as using advanced vocabulary. This morning, she told me, "If that happened, I would have to suppress a giggle."
However, she is not a bookworm, although she reads above grade level. About 20-30 minutes of homework reading and she is done.
She does not gravitate toward her intellectual peers. Her best friends at school are not top students. She frequently plays with a girl in her class who was held back a grade last year. She is generally well-liked, enjoys her class and classmates and teacher, but (if asked) admits it is often "too easy."
She is more interested in sports than reading or music or other more intellectual pursuits (and receives above grade level grades in P.E., too).
Next year, we have to decide whether to place her in the full-time gifted program (which begins in 3rd grade and accelerates the normal grade-level curriculum for the participating gifted students).
I'm wondering whether it will be a good fit. Anyone with advice/experience dealing with a gifted child who doesn't necessarily fit the typical gifted child profile?
