I was wondering where your gifted child was / is in kindergarten and what sort of modifications are being made if any. 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.
Hi Twinkletoes, DD entered kindergarten at 5.5 years before she entered this is what she was doing:
Reading: she had read little Women (2x), A Little Princess, Heidi, Anne of Green Gables ,Jane Eyre , The Secret Garden , yes the theme was classics, I didn't know what else to let her read because of content in older aged books, these versions were the 200 pg ones. She also could read her Bible and look up any verse when asked (she understood how to use table of contents,and the glossary)
Spelling, she has a great memory so if you put spelling words to learn in front of her she would learn it, doesn't matter if it's 1st grade words or 6th grade words.
Math: she entered knowing adding and substracting count to 1000 count by 2's, 3's, 5's, 10's 25's. She begged to learn times and division about 2 months into k , so I showed her how. she is capable for much harder math because she is very quick to understand concepts.
she knew months of the year,days of the week , tell time, count money (all this well before 3)
Writing: this was the only thing that was at grade level
we did end up putting her is 1st grade later that year and now she is 6 and is in 2nd grade,and is still doing things she's known for years, next year we are going to home school.
Hope that helps
