LMS, I just wanted to say that if you homeschool, keep in mind that a four year old doesn't really need any direct instruction. Kids at that age do most of their learning through play. I have been homeschooling my two gifted kids all along, and when they were four, we went to the library a lot, baked, watched documentaries, took walks in the woods, spent at least a day per week at the science museum, etc. My daughter was very resistant at that age to my "teaching" her anything, and my husband swore that homeschooling wouldn't work for that reason. But really, kids at that age are naturally resistant to too much instruction, and they will be learning tons just going about their day.
I did find that supplementing our "unschooling" with subscriptions to sites like dreambox and readingeggs for math and reading allayed my occasional terrors about them "not learning." Those sites comforted me, and I know my kids learned from them, but they probably weren't really necessary!
