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Thanks AvoCado, yes I am looking at small poppies. She seems to find things to do at kindy - they have shown her the storeroom with the challenging things in, I think it made a difference the other day when I showed her where the Ispy books were. I am a bit reluctant to go to small poppies until I speak to the Ed Psych.
I have been staying with her a while at drop off to make sure she knows where everything she needs is. it's a well equipped kindy and the teachers do seem very aware.

I'm still stuck in the "what if it's all in my head and I am delusional" loop. Due to her confidence dropping she is seeming less gifted right now. Her Dad who is very analytical and sensible thinks she is just bright sooooo really very nervous about getting out there and advocating right now. I think after talking to the EP I'll feel more confident.
I'm sure you're totally familiar with the good old kiwi way of not sticking your neck out, doesn't help when I say to friends, oh dd did this or that and I get a curt, yes well they all do that. rambling now!

Penny just dropped thanks to another thread! Dd wants to change pre school to meet like minded friends in addition to her have fun friends. Phew will talk to ed psych about recommendations - thinking best to keep her where she is and join small poppies, I don't think she'd get in anecdotally but an EP report shod do the trick - yay

I think for small poppies GEC does their own assessment as part of a poppy peek. Contact them and see. You don't want to get her tested now if you have to do it again later.

Great idea puffin, I'll call tomorrow

My son attending two preschool when he was 2-3 yrs old (actually still attending now).
One of the mommy and me class has lots of art works to play with, a very fun circle time with many dances and include many things to learn in the songs, e.g. opposites, phonics. He loves it so much, it is play based but with lots of new things to do and learn.
Another preschool is a play-based, with 1 art work and 1 songs for circle time and story time. Other times are free play, 1 hr indoor and 1 hr outdoor, other kids like it so much and same as you, the teachers are very nice. But my son is so boring that, the art is too easy for him that during the first 1hr free play time, he keep on doing the same art many time, and of course in his own way to make it more fun. For the outdoor playtime, he just keep writing his numbers, not involved with other kids at all.
As I go to both school with him, I now understand that a free play school is not for him, although I always think that free play school is good for kids. Now I understand that I should search a good fit preschool for him. Finally find a warm Christian school which use Montessori materials in classroom for him in the coming fall, hope it is a good fit for him.

May be you could try to visit other preschool and see which one ur daughter likes, I think she can tell u about it.

(my son told me he doesn't like the teacher, or doesn't like the toys there when I go to visit some preschool...)

DD has been in a play based kindy, it turns out the problem is that she is craving adult or peer companionship and as such was getting bored when the poor teachers couldn't spend all day with her. She just is no good at entertaining herself for long periods of time. I also attended playcentre with her which is parent run kindy here in NZ, to be honest it required a lot of time from me and it became an expectation that I spent more and more time with other children which just wasn't the reason I was there.

At this stage I have withdrawn her from kindy and now that she has been off for 3 weeks she is back to her old self. We just completed testing so once the results come back in 2 weeks I'll make a decision what to do. We have found a Montessori that has a very high teacher/child ratio - my only concern is that if she is just going to focus on her interests she is going to top out the learning material very quickly.....

Anyway now that she is happy I'm not too stressed, but I have to be honest, with a toddler at home I'm kind of looking forward to having a few hours here and there break.

I have also enrolled her in small poppies, they took her without assessment so that was great - she has been a ball of confidence ever since!

Aquinas, Your DS sounds just like mine. He tried to take the vacuum apart the other day! He also disliked any sort of free play or circle time. Would rather be doing something constructive. Engineering type things.

It's so funny you say that aimelynn38, because my DS did exactly the same thing with my parents' vacuum while we visited on vacation. I hope that same interest in chores and vacuums persists into the teen years!