I need advice: What to do with advenced reader kids in school

[Stodd]

Thanks for sharing Elle. We are thinking of Montessori too as an option.
Glitterusagi, could you tell a little more about the Japanese school? How many hours a day, from what age, their schedule at school....it sounds really interesting and useful.
Thank you,
Stodd

[glitterusagi]

I don't think these Japanese schools are common, but maybe you can poke around in your community for something similar. It's basically just a Japanese 3-6 kindergarten and elementary school (1st through 6th grade). The only difference is that they increasingly get more instruction in English.

In kindergarten, it's pretty much all Japanese and it builds up to 50/50 by the time they are in 6th grade so they can move into an English environment when they go on to middle school. So, they get an extra science and math - one in English, one in Japanese. We love that! I hope my kids will like the idea too when they move up.

I don't know if this is anywhere close to you, but I googled this International School in your state: http://www.wisinternationalschool.com/school_life.html

I would probably start by searching for schools like that near you and also look for Jewish, Muslim, Greek Orthodox programs - I think anything with a specialized slant like that will work as long as it's a community you are comfortable with. We live in a school zone with a good charter system, so we are not allowed to do any of the "magnet" charters in our county due to some goofy rules. There are cool ones here though that are focused on technology/fine arts/Mandarin immersion - maybe you have some of these nearby.

It's all about knowing what to Google and I'm sure you'll find a list as long as your arm!
 

[glitterusagi]

Clarification: our CITY has a good, but not specialized charter system so our COUNTY magnets won't allow us to attend (they say our schools are good enough we don't need to go outside, haha)

[FloridaMom]

I think it's possible in certain districts to apply for early entrance kindergarten, especially when a birthdate is so close to cutoff like that. 

I just checked ELEMENTARY ENTRANCE AND ATTENDANCE REQUIREMENTS for our state and nothing there says about early entrance except out-of-state transfer. Is there any other way I can find this information? Do I need to go to a school district directly to find that out?
Thanks.

[lzp11]

Im really interested in this topic too. My DD is 2 so will be starting school in 2 years. We are based in the uk.  I work part-time and for lots of reasons I don't feel that homeschooling is an option for us. But I do worry about how she will cope if she is ahead in reading (and maybe maths).  The schools closest to our home are also not the best schools in the district which also stresses me.  There aren't any Montessori options here.

Having said that, I was an early reader myself in school (many many moons ago!!).  I think that in the earliest years I did have some extra reading tuition from the nursery school teacher. In those days it was whole word teaching rather than phonics.  But nothing very formal and later it became much more important that my mum encouraged me to read a very wide range of literature so I became quite self-sufficient at learning new words in context. I remember having to follow a set of school readers that seemed far too easy - I was supposed to read them aloud to my parents but I would just read it very quickly and then go back to something more interesting (and challenging).  So I think with our support perhaps we can work alongside the system?

I dont know whether it is better to stress the child's abilities to the school or keep it all a bit more low key.  The main issue is that our children should not lose their love of learning.  It sounds like a major issue if the school is very rigid in it's approach.  I think that our school system may mean that the schools need to demonstrate certain key steps in learning even if these 'hoops' are actually far below the child's stage. Perhaps this shows some of the major negatives in basing learning on too much testing (they teach to the test rather than to the child's needs).

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