CFK,
TY for the link. I have read the article and there are a lot of similarities with my son to Tao. The early reading benchmarks are similar (and thankfully our daycare teacher confirmed what we were seeing). She facilitated an curriculum for our son with sight word books and basic phonetics @ 2 - 2 1/2.
We enrolled our son into Kumon @ 3 1/2 (still attending daycare during the day) since it was 2x a week for an hour which was long enough for him. They started him @ Level 7 in english/reading and math and by the end of the 1st year he was @ Level C in both and we had to leave Kumon. Our son complained the program was not going fast enough and the headmistress honestly said that they could not provide what he needed. Our son posted 7th in Math for all of Canada/US/Mexico for his grade group [ PRE-K -2 ] and 9th place in English.
We put him in traditional pre-kindergarten school and informed them about our son (now 4 1/2) and let them know he could read
40-50 pages at a setting and could do addition/subtraction/multiplication/division and limited abilities with fractions. They said they were eager to see what a child like that would do and would work with us but at the end after many calls to the office and disruptive behavior, were asked not to bring him back for the same reasons he left Kumon.
We had his IQ tested (pre-school test since he was not 6 yet) and enrolled him into a Montessori school who said they could provide an environment for him. He was started as a 3rd grader there and it has been almost a year and he has just started 6th grade last month in all subjects.
He does the same homework, schoolwork and tests as his academic peers and except for writing (stories, paragraphs and such), he scores very well.
The other thing to note is that he possesses a innate ability to play the piano. He has been playing now for 9 months and we are looking for a new teacher for him since he has outgrown the 2 teachers we have found for him with them saying they had nothing left to teach him and that he needed time and an advanced teacher to take him to the next level (Sonatina, Sonatas, etc ...)
His favorite love is math and when he is by himself , he will be string numbers together in some formula in his head. I would say that math is his primary language. He has a couple college algebra books in his room that we works on by himself and let us proudly know that he understood why 1/4 = 4 to the -1 power.
