Hi everyone! I'm back. After a pretty long hiatus. Ansley is now 3.9 and we have moved for Dh's job to an island in the middle of the Bering Sea....yes, in the middle of the ocean, only way on is by boat or plane. We are a 3+ hour airplane ride to anchorage. We have been here for 3 months now, and besides for freezing LOL, we are doing great.
I am really am starting to freak out at the challanges we are facing with Ansley. She is now reading on a 4th grade level, she is doing 2nd grade math without us ever even introducing it. (she played a game solving for x today just for fun. "hey mom its like solving a mystery!" She "sees it in my head mom" and she is in LOVE with all things science. She just finished a first grade science text with LOTS of supplimentation, and while looking for what to do next after she cried when finishing the book because "I want to do science Mama. PLEASE." She is able to pass the 3rd grade science tests with 80% accuracy.
She never stops. NEVER. But she is happy, so I basically let her do what she wants. She is struggeling with making friends. We had to leave the friends she had made who were her peers even thought they were 4 years older then her, and as of now she has only been able to connect with kids her age here, and well it is not working well. She gets really angry with them and is really rude to them.
Her play is just simply in no way comparable to theirs, and she is angry when they can not play the way she wants. She yells at them when they count wrong, she yells at them when they say they want to be a princess when they grow up, in fact she says "Ehhhhh (buzzard sound)Not happenin!" and then procedes to explain to them that the likelihood of that happening is not likely. They just stare at her and turn around and go back to playing. Sigh. She wants to be both an orthopedic surgeon and an astronomer and talks about going to med school on an almost daily basis. She told me at dinner the other night out of nowhere, "I never want to stop learning!"
This island is small. We won't be here forever, but basically DH and I feel like public school will not be an option when she is basically operating 3 grade levels ahead in math, and 5 ahead in science and math, and we haven't even started school or homeschooling for real yet. Early entrence to K is not happening here, and even if they did let us (which they won't), she has been doing everything they cover in K for at least 2 years. She just reads everything she can get her hands on. But with this island being small, there is no homeschool co-ops, no gifted resources, absolutly nothing, even the library is limited, and she has already in the 3 months we are here exhausted most of the science section. I am now in bush alaska, with a PG gifted child who can teach herself anything and I have no resources. We do have internet, so if someone can give me some good websites for her to be able to go on, that would be wonderful. She can use the internet by herself and taught herself to type, and we are stuck inside ALL winter. With the wind that blows here at least 50mph everday it is just to cold to go out at all, and she is so board. She can only play her elaborate pretend worlds for so long, they play does go on for days, but she stops in between and wants other things to do.
Anyway, I am back. And will probably be on here a lot turning for support since was are so isolated. Right now DH and I have been discussing looking in to Stanford EPGY program here come summer, (she will be 4 in March)but other than that we really do not know what to do with her. We have been told by several doctors and an education specialist to prepare for her needing college level material by the time she is supposed to enter middle school. I am not working and probably will not be at all while we live here, and I will be homeschooling her. Okay, enough rambeling. It is late, and I need some sleep.
Night all
