Would you mind being specific and telling me what type of materials he or she could read if he or she were reading, what sort of math things he or she could do, etc. to try to project where we might be in two years.
Thanks so much.
My son didn�t attend K. AT K age, we definitely recognized that there was a big discrepancy between what we considered signs of advanced ability and the academics of early elementary school. A couple examples that we had actually recorded for proof as to why we believed he needed to start school early are;
At 41/2 he could identify any country on the globe. When he became bored during a recognition ceremony at his pre-school one day, he pointed out and named every (non �labeled) US state as he viewed them from the inverse position on a freestanding and rotating dry erase board /US map.
At 5years2months he was in the habit of singing the lyrics of various traditional Christmas songs and hymns to the melody of various other traditional Christmas song s or hymns. He could easily and flawlessly (not by voice quality) complete the first two or three versus of either his own combinations or when given suggestions from others for lyrics and melody.
At 5years2months he skip counted by twos, fives and tens to almost 5,000 while we drove home from the airport after a family Thanksgiving gathering.
At 5years4months, he attended a very academic pre-school for a period of six months after his pediatrician suggested he needed more intellectual challenge. One of the big challenges for his group was to learn the names of the US presidents in order. He did it easily (most classmates were unable to memorize them) and he still can (as of two years ago when we visited a presidential library) recite them.
Also, since he hated early readers, he exclusively read non-fiction books (DK Eyewonder very briefly) quickly moving on to DK Eyewitness books which are a combination of detailed pictures and 4th grade plus text. It amazed me that he could comprehend so easily about topics that he had much interest in, yet stumble over simple words on boring reading assignments. When he could finally read well enough to enjoy novels that were of actual interest to him, he read constantly for the next six years, often ignoring less interesting schoolwork. His first �real� novel (by his judgment) was Harry Potter-1st at 6 years.
