Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums General Discussion 3yo with great memory learning progression?

Thanks for your responses.

@ConnectingDots & @aeh

We are trying to see what he is interested in, that's how he ended he started to learn all the states. Grandparents live in a different state, and showed him a map of where they live, and what state it was, then a bunch of, "what state is this" questions, and he got them memorized.
My sister lives in a different country now he knows about a few dozen countries. Which then expanded to continents and to the solar system.

We have a trip to D.C. planned and explained how that was the Capitol of the US, and what a capitol was, and then he started the process of remembering the capitals of various states, but I kind of redirected from that, because I cant imagine how that could be helpful at his age.

Should I have continued to teach him the capitols?

That is why I was looking for some progression in general, I thought it would be better to direct him to things that might actually be helpful, or develop some critical thinking instead of memorization.

@howdy

We do have him help vacuum (little dirt devil), help with meals, put away dishes, rinse his dish. It is not a routine, but maybe we should start to add that to our plans.

@ConnectingDots
We are sending him to Montessori in September. We are using some montesorri based toys at home, like a number board that has helped him recognize and understand numbers.

I'll have to look into those games, currently in the board game rotation are candyland, chutes and ladders, boggle jr.

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