Jolly phonics?

[3rdtimesacharm]

Wow. After reading about her love of the days of the week and time, I am starting to think my kid is related to her. Lmao!! I don't know if you are planning a French route for her but once NY kid could master the English language we taught him counting and ABC's in French. As well as the planets and their order and addition. Around age 4 he was skip counting. Counting by 2s, 3s, anything up to skip counting by 19s. Totally memorized. It was always because he would master something and then more on to the next 'challenge'.
The grocery store activity sounds great and I applaud you for wanting to keep on top of her giftedness!

[Lee-Bee]

Wow. After reading about her love of the days of the week and time, I am starting to think my kid is related to her. Lmao!! I don't know if you are planning a French route for her but once NY kid could master the English language we taught him counting and ABC's in French. As well as the planets and their order and addition. Around age 4 he was skip counting. Counting by 2s, 3s, anything up to skip counting by 19s. Totally memorized. It was always because he would master something and then more on to the next 'challenge'.
The grocery store activity sounds great and I applaud you for wanting to keep on top of her giftedness!

I would assume the French route since we are in Ottawa and it just makes sense. I am not too keen on the French system as I can't help but feel they get less in depth content because of the language difference. But, having taught in the system I am weary of keeping her in English as they have more special needs and behavior kids (which make it hard for teachers to meet everyone's needs).

I am home with her until she starts school. We are thinking that when she starts I will return to work (supply teaching for who knows how long before full time) but that my income will go to putting her in private school for JK and SK so she can have a much smaller class where they can hopefully 'manage' her in a positive manner.

I hadn't thought of moving on to the French letters and numbers etc. Will keep that in mind as a new challenge. Your son sounds very similar...how was he behavior/personality wise? I think we have a double whammy with being smart and being so...'spirited'. My husband travels every other week for work. He is gone this week (just 4 days) but on weeks like this I count the minutes until bed time because it is soooooo exhausting to stay on top of everything. She is an amazing, lovable kid and she self entertains but it is so much time and effort to keep her stimulated while preventing melt downs and navigating her world. I have chips and dip waiting for me once she is in bed :-)

We have god friends from church that babysit her on occasion. They are a retired principal and teacher. Last they had her they handed her back saying "we'd hate to be her kindergarten teacher". She would watch them do something, master it and refuse any help with it as she repeated over and over. They sat me down and said that we need to meet with her teacher before she starts and fill them in about her or she will be mistaken for a 'problem' child because she is bored and has no interest in repeating the daily lessons. I am a tad worried to say the least.