Lego Passenger Airplane
Lego House (various)
GeoPuzzle Europe
American states wooden puzzle
Zoom Zoom Mosaic by Alex
Brainquest flip books

[Mozart]

What about one of the greatest muscial geniuses of them all - Mozart ?

Clearly his father spent many hours with him teaching him the piano so he could compose Twinkle Twinkle Little Star at age 4 and be the star entertainment at the Vienna court at age 6 !

Oooh. Kumon. Good idea. I'm going to try it.

ER. now.

Also, GeoPuzzle. My child loves putting together these 50 or so piece jigsaw puzzles of all the continents. Europe is the best one. He knows lots of capital cities because of it, and recently told a taxi driver "India is in Asia" because of it. He is 2.5. You'll have to hand him the pieces at first but once he does it over and over he'll do a lot of it himself.

Roger Priddy - Pen Control. Buy it. This book shows you all the letters and numbers in dotted lines, and the pages are really thick and wipe clean. My child adores using a water-based marker (which comes with the book) to basically write the letters over the dotted lines. For about 3-4 months I had to put the pen in his hand correctly, and guided his hand over the numbers "hand over hand". Now he can pretty much trace the alphabet and simple shapes and lines himself unaided. Ie: this book gave him pen control. He is 2.5 and holds his pen like an adult and can trace the letters. Plus then there are a lot of other similar books by Roger Priddy, but this is the easiest, so start there.

Don't worry - celebrate! My child is very similar to yours. At 2 he was speaking and reading very well - sentences, knew all shapes, colors, letters. At 2.5 he is starting to write letters, talks in even longer sentences, can add easy numbers. He was really shy at 1 to 2. He would get frightened around other kids, strangers. Other kids took his toys away all the time. He would insist I hold his hand at mommy and me classes all the time. With lots of mommy and me classes, and NO PUSHING into doing anything social he does not want to, he is a lot better. I definitely stress the "no pushing". If he wants to hold my hand and do nothing - fine. I went at his pace. We went to lots of playdates to find the right preschool recently, and he was not shy at all. They change. They really do. He's no longer shy really. Still not boistrous, but definitely he can function fine. I am sending him to an educational preschool for 3 hours a day from age 3, but I would not do it earlier. He would have been very upset to separate from me or his nanny that young. Very bright children can be hypersensitive. They can be shy and retiring, because they are thinking a lot more about the repercussions of things than some other children. The same thing happened to me. At preschool I was very shy, and they sent a psychologist to IQ test and generally observe me, and he pronounced me highly gifted. By kindergarten I was fine socially, and I have 3 Oxford degrees. Don't worry - celebrate !

Good for you Kerileanne99. Congratulations on having such a cute and clever little daugher. Your neighbour is a fol! (sic). Also I love your idea about the mail. I am going to copy it, because I think my little son will have so much fun with it.

I agree. I want to do this too !! Does anyone know ?