She did find some great things to do with them, and the class is a marvelous fit for DS4. I suspect nearly all of the 16 kids (including DS4) are at least MG, and I'd bet money that several are HG+. The moms are not hothousing moms either. It seems that lots of really smart kids (who all get along incredibly well, BTW. SOOOO much fun together!) all stumbled into the same class. smile Bliss!
Kriston,
This really goes back to the highly gifted ratio of kiddos in the school district discussion we had a while back! You seem to have the same thing going on in the preschool. Lucky You to have a nice ratio for your DS. Who knows, maybe it will spill over into the elementary school if you go that route.
Over the holidays we (DD and myself) had a special teaparty with the girls from her dance class and their moms. This would be the first time for the girls to really interact outside of the 1 hour instruction they get every week. All the girls are advanced for the age (2-3) with solid sentence structures. Given that this was a social setting I couldn't tell you more than their ability to verbalize. It is weird how many advanced kids live in our immediate area and when I evaluate them against some of my friends' kids the differences are striking. And this is just in regards to vocabulary abilities.
This does bring up a question that someone might be able to clarify for me. ND verbal ability for a just turned 2 year old? I know that they should be putting together at least 2 word sentences, but is that just reciting words or actually composing sentences to get what they want, such as me milk or want milk? Or should it be more advanced than this? My friend's little girl has some issues which include muddled words that are hard to understand or even made up words, but also has 2 word sentences that for the most part is just reciting back to her DM. She is 26 mths. Her clarity of the words has gotten better. At 24 mths I could only make out about 5 words and now I probably can understand 25 - 30 % of what she says though still not perfect words. Yellow for her use to be yyyyyeeewwwwoooooo strung out to 20 plus syllables but is now down to about 6 syllables and more understandable. I could give more examples but really want to know if she fits in the normal category or below normal and might need testing? Her Ped suggested speech therapy since she was not speaking in 2 word sentence at 24 mths, but gave them the option of waiting 6 mths and they have chose to wait and see. Now that she is 26 mths she has had some improvements but does that put her at norm?
Again sorry to be so off topic here.
