My DD3 goes to a 3-hr preschool 5 days a week. The teacher has a routine that includes discussing different topics like weather, recycling etc..per week, reading to the children, discussing about the content they read, basic math like counting to twenty and so on.
This is also a multi-age classroom with kids 3, 4 and 5 years old. However, all the children get the same instruction through the day. My DD loves books and taught herself to read with some help from her big brother. She can read and reads aloud to me everyday. Sometimes, she carries a book to school so she can read to her teacher and classmates. She was not much into writing earlier, but started to learn writing recently and is making real progress. Her recent obsession is playing with jigsaw puzzles (next to books). She can complete really complicated ones without even looking at the reference picture.
I make sure she is challenged by providing books level up to read, making her practice her writing and supplying her with puzzles that contain more pieces (100 or more). Her big brother DS8 had an early start at reading (when he was 2)and everything else and he is EG . She started a bit late but she is really catching up. I feel she is probably still ahead of her peers. Could she be gifted too? If she is, what can I do to enhance her learning? Her Visual-spatial skills are good, as far as I assess. What other ways can I challenge that part of her brain, other than providing jigsaw puzzles? What kind of support should I request from the teacher?
