What I found the single coolest thing about having an HG+ preschooler?
Being able to teach a child statistics and graphical methods of analysis using a handmade "journal" and a bunch of dollar-store ladybug stickers... and walks around our neighborhood playing "spot the item."
That kind of thing just isn't
possible for most kids who would be excited by how many "blue cars" they saw... or enthralled by carefully stopping to put a ladybug sticker into a journal as "data." Or repeating the "experience" as a means of increasing the "N" for those data sets.
Yes, I talked about what error bars mean, and about the 'best' graphical model for a particular set of data-- with my 4-6yo.
So while I have found it very challenging to use intentional materials created by others while teaching HG+ kids at their level... if you let go of what you "should" teach them, and go with their interests and enthusiasm and what
seems okay for them at the moment, some of what happens is MAGICAL.
I know that what I experienced in those moments was truly a once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon.
