DD4 is at a nature based school with children age 2 to 8. DD has an age-mate BFF who is socially very precocious. DD is hot and cold about the older boys. She did not enjoy attending typical preschools.
She keeps herself intellectually challenged with extracurricular activities. We do science experiments, read a lot, and she's on her piano bench practicing and improvising just about all afternoon.
Now that we've found the right school and an outlet for her drive to learn - which turned out to be piano - we feel quite settled. We have to go through K admission this year and I'm feeling really ambivalent about drastically changing our current schedule.
We also take her to a jazz club every weekend.
It's much easier if you can follow your child's interest and passion. It might not easy to find a preschool that allows for this to happen but there are alternatives out there to traditional preschools.
